The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-22

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awful sinners. | called you, bm ye answered
| not, etc. When he came down into the Vestry
| after his sermon the senior trustee oil the lee
| most Ingenious DISCOURSE aud we are very mu,h
| obliged to you; but we don't think you are the
preacher that will do for u.s. This was
| practical application of his sermon that the
pulpit orator had not calculated upon. One of
| DIR. Hawks most effective charity sermons was
preached from the text To beg am ashamed,
from Ro uSe the orieiSaI intention. He turned it
! effectively to his purpose by the gloss that he
was ashamed for his hearers that the neglect OF
| so good cause as that for which he was plead
ing rendered it necessary to beg for it,"
Here is bit of "Easy Chair" gossip which
contains an idea or two worthy of notice.
at would have been pity if the old monks,
| in the sunny secusion of their clolsters, patu-
| fully transcribng choice old manuscripts, and
| so preserving inestimable works, had decided
| that original composition was much higher
| employment, and had left the good works
to moulder while they painfully achieved bad
ones.
"'Certainly, certainly said young Gunnybags
| who but he?-to whom the Easy CHAIR made
| the remark as they walked through the collec-
! tion Of pictures which young Mr.. Gunuybags
! had recently brought from Europe Certainly
| certainly: and do look at this beautiful piece bv
| Tin,orettin. Isn't that marvellous colorT
at was marvellous color. The color was as
remarkable as the total, total want OF interest or
! voice warbng the most stupid of commonplace
| ditties. Dear, dearr exclaimed the Easy Chair,
how splendid copy of GioIgiones Fisherman
! of st. Marc Tintorettini would makep
| -"'Oh, i assure you,' retoined young Mr..
! Gunnybags, as he raised the shade to throw
brighter light upon some gem Siguor Tlnto-
rettini is long, before that. He paints nothing
but originals
" The more fool he, was the involuntary reply;
but 1t renamed unspoken, and the review of
| misapplied talent continued.
" Did you everIhear AlboniY asked the Easy
Chair, as the promenade brought them in front
of a really admirably executed portrait OF
horribly uninteresting model who posed for
cardinal
"'Yes, indeed beautiful singer, wonderful.
How she did sing IL Segreto =
"'Did you ever hear her sing any of her owa
"'Her own songs-good Heavens! no; and
shouldn't wish to. No. no; she could sing
magnidcently; but composition is quite another
thing. You know the talents very seldom go
"Very seldom indeed rejoined the Easy
Chair; land what pity that this clever painter
had not sung Raphaeps Leo Tenth or julius,
instead of this absurd old modelp
"Mr. Gunnybags junior turned politely, but
still did not seem to comprehend, and merely
saying, yes, oh yes certainly, he called
attention to another choice bit ot skilful execu-
tion. There was plenty OF skill, but scarcely a
picture in the collection. But if all these monks
had but devoted their diligence TO reproducing
a canto of some lost Iliad
"a very few years since, when enormous sums
of money were paid by intelligent connosseurs
Tor original pictures Dy some man OF the mo-
ment, whose works were almost as much mere
fashion as the Grecian bend, there was an
exquisite copy of one Of the most interesting of
Turner's great works, the old 1emerdre, hang
ing upon the walls of painters studio, and to
be bought at a most moderate price. lntrins
caLy, in the judgment of those whose decision
would rule in such matters the copy was worth
very much more than multitudes OF the originals
that were sold at twenty times the sum asked
But who wants to buy copy?
why not bny copy? Most OF the clever
tlnn Hoo
-omitting those who are not clever-are like
men who write an excellent, legtble hand.
Now you may employ them to devote that
legbe hand to an original essay of theirs upon
'COntentment a Blessing;' but why be surprised
that your neig hbor prefers to have them copy
in that excellent hand Millions 'L'ANeg 80?
Make the stronger. Suppose that L'Alle-
gro could be multiplied only by transcribing,
that it was lodged in library alcove tar away
over the sea, and then which would you prefer,
the essay on 'COntentment Blessing by
Bristow Drownstroke, NJ N. l. (Member National
Ins,itute), or the poem copied by the same
skiltu hand? Or, since you are in the mood of
sneering at copies, would you please to prefer
one OF the original Parian figures of women
more or less nude that are made so prettily in
Paris and London to plaster cast of the Venus
dI Milo?
"It is at this point that Mr. Gunnybags junior
| may be supposed to remark, causucally, that
! there is a large number of worthy people VINO
COpyist in all the great galleries in Europe,
! and il anybody wishes to buy copy, he can be
accommodated upon the most reasonable terms.
A copy-yes: u acknowledgement. But copy
of he Madonna di Ssto, of the Fohgno, of the
Segalola, which shall really reproduce those
pictures, not merely initiate them, that is a work
we'll worth doing, and not difficult to many
thoughtful and skiliul painter, who can as truly
! reproduce Raphael as Aida Topp can play ChO-
! PIN yet who can not hims elf compose. So it is,
after all, the painters who are mainly concerned.
When T.. Z. and the Easy Chair walk together
through the Academy Exhibitlon-and If there
! be better companion for a picture gallery in
the singing liveliness of his comments, the Easy
Chair has not encountered him-they-well at
! least one of them sees often and often charm
| ing touch, delicate skill, and feels how adj
! mirable a copy of a Wouvermann, Of an Arcadia
| of Claudes, of landscape OF Salvador, would
be by the same hand. The careful study that
makes the painter capable of doing this, in
which not the thing itself, but the way of doing
| it, is so admirable, would in that case do also an
admirable thing. 1t would make us all familiar
with the famous works and the famous masters
! We could study their treatment their compost
tiou. If the copy OF the Tenlerdjre, of which
we spoke Just now. had been hung upon the
Aca0Cmy walls, great many people who are
accustomed to think ligl ty of the painter, I, Q.
! Farer, would have been compelled to recognize
! a very striking talent, and the picture would
! have been as remarkable as any in the rooms.n
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