New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-12-31
THE BRONZES Al TIFFANR'S.

Paris has ceased to belong to the universe.
For the first time in the century she Is French city.
Those arts and luxuries by which she attracted ana
seduccd the world ceased to exist That which was
once a city OF shops and iders has become merely gar
rson The glory OF her mogasins has passed into long
eclipse We Americans are so modest that 1t rarely
occurs to us that NewYor has succeeded to the place
Paris has left vacant the most brilliant city or the CIV
ized world There was, In Paris, dry goods
shop to be compared with several OF ours. And now
that Barbedenne has been swallowed up In the darkness
OF SIEGE and the cunning arcers of the Rue de Ia Pax
have put up their shutters and gone soldering there Il
iewelry establishment in the world to compare IN size
and ma gnicence with the store Of Tiffany and Com
pany i'll UniOn-sguare.
IL would puzzle those epcene philosophers who deny
that there is any difference in the mental constitution OF
the sexes to account the fact that all who enter
this house go the left, and all to tho right On
the right are ranged quantities OF things not worth
seeng-to w.t. diamonds and pearls, and their poorer
mineral relations But to the left choice collection
OF objects OF art which delight to spprecative
eyes-delcate bronzes without number some or which
open reproach OF usefulness such clocks ana
candeiabras. and others which simply beautiful,
satuettes and castings Of birds and beasts and poets
girls varied interest, but equally correct in anst
omy and finished in execution.
The most considerable works of the collection are
pair OF Indian statues by Patriot cast by TOussiD and
reduced copy OF veia's Napoleon. The statues arc OF
heroic and form, nothing less than poem in bronze
The man almost entirely nude, with the smooth, 1.-the
limbs OF the god Vishnu. He holds torch in his uped
hand and feather fan in the hand that drops by his
side The woman is draped from the waist downward in
heavy folds OF Cashmere her long, graceful also
holds alOf burning torch There is singular sin0us
play Of subtle and harmonious lines about these exqu
site figures, and the artist has been very happy in his
Characterization of the faces. They full OF SUM
berous languor aud pasonthe eyes hafclosed the
thick, full lips hxeu In sensual repose the whole
expression has flavor Of poppy and mandragora aud all
tho drowsy srps OF the East 1t is the utterance OF
thought native the Ganges, full OF the calm joy OF
fixed tradition and spiritual caul-unkn0wn in Broad
way Chicago.
The reduction OF yea's glorious statue OF the last
Hours Napoleon is very adequate presentation OF
that admirable work. The statue Of Vela without
doubt tho greatest original piece Of marble sculpture In
the Exposition Of 1867, Mr. Wards Indian Hunter"
the finest bronze In the copy at Tanys, there Is
little lost in dignity and suggestveness The short solid
form Of the cOnqueror which after all, imposing
the six-feetsix OF Gen. Scott wrapped in his night
Dress facing death In his armchair with the imperial de-
1ance of bstlehelds the keen despotc face with the
eagleeye and beak made salient by the emaciaton
of mortal Illness the hopelessness that will not despair
the desperation that challenges mutabty and refuses
to bow 10 the inevitable, all well enough preserved
10 the bronze to give good idea Of the superb work Of
the italian mountaineer who broke In this effort the
spell ethargy that rested OF late years upon scup
tire In Europe.