New-York tribune., 1870-11-16
.sPARIS IN AMERlCA."
TIFFANY'S.

IN his feet.
from Tripo samarcand, Siberia, Abyssinia SINGAPORE
Constantnope Dublin, Canton TO rub the nap from h'
sleeye. The Antipodes tributary to him. Europe
sends whole fleets with vast carg0es Of Europe ANY
prntshop shows him every foreign city In ite Every
book store with travellers who rustic wlthh
their muslin covers with eagerness 10 impart To MN
the secrets Of all lands The riches of the world and long
results OF Time flow to this Western shore Bagdad'
Nineyeh Tyre we're opiun-ireams OF Eastern Vouptu-
aries idng in tho New-York could put thelh all III
her pocket Every month the splendor of the modern
city wakes Yesterday it private house Duildeu
like a palace which offered the text for what the
preachers call "these few remarks" To-day itlsa nc"
and vast jewclry-shOp.
Union Square changes apace from its SOBER Sio"-
meas OF respectable householdng to DuStlhB
activity Of shop-keeping And this latest ACQUISITION
is its largest. 10 Is possible that We shaii sono
day outiye that very remarkable order Of warehouse
architecture which rests three four massive stories Oh
q plate-gass base whose iron posts anu siluoi'
appear rather to be too heavy ornaments imam
strong props OF Plate glass not being III ltSe uo
sirabe building material and the best houses not pu
ting all their stock exhibition In tho WINDOWS 'hcio
seems ray Of hope that common sense may mint 10 inc
bulders OF the future that structure should not only
rise from strong foundation but should seem " 40 3d.
And then we shall have fronts that are noble as wen '
colossal and fine as well as snowy. But, th thhs uaJ
comes the great shop of the Messrs Tiffany must DC con
sered one OF the very best OF its order The deghti
painness of it's INTERIOR the mellow richness OF the
walnut wood the honesty OF the workmanship the mar
mony OF detas-even tho door-hnges not being SUNK,
hut left properly posed and very beautifully hhsheu
the simplicity OF the showcases. the wise oho'ce Vi
color wherever color ia used the total absence oi t
Standardization order Of decoration, make the great
salesroom az pleasant place for morning lounge as
the best prntsh0ps.
For into this harmonious gallery what nave the
careful collectors not brought There shall be found
such wonderful things all the workers In IRON
and brass, from the days OF Tubal cam 10 thoso
days OF ours have been mOdng brain and heart lhto'
There shall found silver as frostwork sou gea
ing IA moonlight still water all the vulgar nash Oh
t refined away There shall be found jewels, and god
and pearls There shall be found trinkets so innumer
able and OF 30 diverse and inscrutabe uses, that the
capacity Of tho human mind to devise and TO desire
becomes new wonder, and the idle gazer ID straight
way a philosopher. meditatng on the possible nm. Vi
that capacity which alone can BIO the limit OF cN@
ton All these, and nnumerable other wonders crown
shelves and cases. and he Is not wise Who gong to
this seductive place. leaves not his scrip or his scrupes
at home One or other will be sure to disappear. And
vet let it DO said the comfort and behoof OF the
humble minded, who at the gate OF Heaven stand ds
consolste, longing yet never daring To inquire 'e
prices such shining that not only are thcy 10
dearer than In their old magazine, but IN many cases
they are cheaper, and that this present evil War,
which threatens 10 Senu us
| fashioness to graves, seems to have exempted
tbese mighty merchants OF Unon-Square from It's
seouestraons for never In smooth times OF peace has
such hoard OF perfect Paris trifes, such wonder oi
| perfect Paris workmanship, been seen in America
The bronzes live in an apartment Of their own, whose
hangngs OF green set OFF their rich compexions
There the Missy bronzes, OF course, Tor the missy
buyers The Greek Roman boarding-school type or
posed figure with too long arms, and too narrow heau
and too fixed limbs, and too too little drapery called in
differently Hebe or Morning, or venus OF FORTUNE OF
Spring or Music, Harvest, or Proserpna, or Iehy,
or Night or indeed, almost anything except feIna'e
Suffrage whose end is to stand on the parior mantel-
niece OF somc nexpressye she who knows not the names
f the Greek GOddesses but feels that bronzes are the
thing 10 convince her world that she patrOnzes Art and
as Lady Teaze feengy observes. Is no more eAtra'a-
CANT than q woman OF Fashion ought to be- But al
these nonentties being counted ouand they are nope
fully few-there remain many noble and beautiful
figures that pass hour or two among them is to
1--we long the high atmosphere Of fair vanished day
| For not only there copies (and fine copies) OF
the antique statues which are the undying won
der and delight of Tme but copies, also, OF the
work Of later ages, when the Church absorbed
all art, and the religious impulse again moved
the artists hand, but to different results. And yet
| again one finds reproductions OF the marvellous
handwork OF medieval workmen who gave days and
weeks to the execution Of candestick or a clock. But
what candlestick and what a clock! II it was an
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hardly less an artist who gave his best work to its execu
ton. And we owe a debt Of gratitude TO the house
which ia striving replace the tawdry French gilt frp
perry, dear TO modern taste, with these honest and
beautiful specimens OF time when decorative art had
| not entered on its decadence
Here is clock with vases, Of the seventeenth CEN
tury clock stately in form, rich in material Of
so lavish and handiwork, so exquisite in color,
with its dead and FURNISHED surfaces its high and low
relief that 1t was worthy stand in the Banquetng
room at whitehall Who shall say that 1t did not tick
away the heavy hours for outish James, waiting there
disconsoate for Babe Charlie and Dog Seene too long
gone on unsuccessfu woong Who shall say that 1t
tcked not out the troubled years OF Babe Charlie,
now grown king till that bitter morning when the
shadow OF the scaffold fell across its dial, and
the sweet soul that could not govern
parted from its turbulent trust Counting the CEN
tury away surely IT measured time for elbowng Crom
well and his loud voiced friends, banqueting there
and throwing and napkins at each other while
the gaping crowd bethought them OF the stately cere
monia which the royal dinner had seemed in the days
OF the dead monarch Ticking the great Cromwell to
grim death and the small Cromwell to obscurity, and
ticking royal Charles back to his again, and hav
ing its small voice sted in the boisterous and reckless
olty Cf the court, t went ticking lives away
and Kingdoms into hands OF alien rulers till it
| saluted two new centuries and new world, and, to-
day. has all this story tell and much besides to
anybody who will listen. And behold the very mante
set that stood in the boudoir OF La belle yaliere at
Versailles, the gift Of her royal lover. 1t is Of
colored marble, fine as agate and with enamel
wonderful to behold II Cobweb and Mustard
seed had painted ts aIrily fine mosaic. Endless are
the mementoes OF the prodigal time OF Louis Quinze
ARTIFICIAL inaristc but rich OF material so fine OF
workmanship that their deformty looks like beauty
And these and and jars OF the Renaissance Of
the Classic OF no period at ALL with designs borrowed
from Rome, from Egypt, from the mysterious East
fashioned In gold IN bronze, in softtnted marbles, In
edgleamng copper more beautiful than gold:-in the