The New York herald., 1870-08-19
THE FINE ARTS.
Art Progress and Public Curiosity
Paris Galleries as Affected by the War
Rude Shock to the March Of Refine
ment-Life Scenes from the Palace
tOthe Cottage Subjects for New
Pictures-Ca -Caricaturists and
Dramatists in Luck-The
Opera and the Pantheon.

PARIS, August 2, 1870.
1t is a very universal belief that Apollo and Bel
Iona are about to tear $50 900 Prussians from
each other, and that moat Of human blood lies
between the temple of art and the field of Mars
Consequently my sympathetic friends, the paint
ers, have given themselves up TO the "Marseil-
laise," with their felt hats punched in little worse
than usual. Instead Of improving the present oc-
casion, it Is to be all far aiente until peace is pro-
claimed, and even art critics are put down as in
sane for attempting to or divert subscribers
by letters on the ideal and the beautiful. If ever
the mission Of art correspondents was considered
an essential feature in dailies, how
much more so in sime of war; when
the mind loves to turn away from
scenes Of strife, and TO rest on less hdeOus H.
struments than the mitrailleuse or, as one of the
French generals calls it, the "gleaner," because
it does bring down five hundred living beings at a
single trial. Besides who win gainsay that we
have In daily life, within our homes, salons and
streets, subjects for the brush and palette such
as the most vivid Imagination could scarcely de-
pict?
Let your readers follow me. Yesterday at ST..
Cloud, lovely woman, q woman acknowledged
to be the most graceful sovereign of Europe,
stood over her son, handing to her servant the
scissors with which all the curly locks her fingers
have so often run through were to be clipped
short in order to make room for the military kepi
There, on a chair by her side, stood the valise
packed by her own hands with every article that
maternal forethought could devise and the
regulations, which are applied to all alike
would allow or Or, let them gather
round the entrance of the park on
the following morning, and see her
wish Napoleon III. "goodby; :" then press their
only son to her bosom, saying, without tear,
go, child, and do your duty" But there are
other scenes. There is that old gentleman in
uniform, who went to the frontier last week,
General Frossard, the uncompro omising, the mex
orable governor Of the Prince, and by no means
q courtier. Master and disciple both were part
ing. Prince" said General Frossard, 'I have
taught you implicit obedience to a laid down law
have reared you 80 far in military discipline,
and now l thank God that He has kept me to
show you can practise what | have taught.n If
turn to another general, the major in command,
Marshal Lebeuf, see him refusing to lie down on
the spring bed prepared for his colossal stature at
Strasbourg. "A camp stool stretched out is all
shall rest on as long one of my men is on the
ground" was bis reply. Still he instantly gave
orders for proper" beds for his officers.
SUBJECTS FOR PICTURES.
If a man at all gifted with an artists eve can
find no matter for picture in the incidents we
have now witnessed for fortnight there is no
hope for him. Ishould have liked to hold such a
one at the corner Of the Rne de la Banque on
Wednesday last, the 18th ult. small olive
green coupe drew up. There was no armorial
q N ~ nvlf dnnr Qndt thA Artu
cry. lady with fair hair, attended by another,
came out, and both were accompanied by youth
in plain dark suit.
"Wait here till I return /" said the fairest and
and tallest of the two females to the coschman
Then the three hastily turned the corner on foot
and stood before the church known as "Our Lady
Of Victory" A blind beggar was crouching at
the entrance, in whose hand fell golden coin
"Pray for the victory of France" said the tall
lady, whose veil hid her features but when she
knelt before the altar she threw it back and there
bent EuRenle OF France. AS unostentatiously as
she came in did she depart with her son, recog
nized by very few. A few hours later she was at
her usual place presiding over the Emperor's
luncheon table.
=, News from the army now at Metz, Nancy and
Strasbourg furnishes all with novel thought and
the writer would be dull indeed whose wits made
nothing Of stray booty.
The great artists Of the French fighting army
are the Zouaves and Turcos. The latter have
already terrified the Prussians considerably with
samples OF their cunning at stealing poultry. Unto
these quick, fire and water proof blacks, with the
Moor and devil In their veins, has been confided
the working of the mitrailleuses. One of them, q
trumpeter, had taught hawk with untiring per.
severance for few months the art Of uttering
"tO Berlin" Ga Berlin). This was at the last ex-
petition at Morocco under General Mariner, and
among other accomplishments acquired by the
sagaclous bird Was that also of pounoing down on
small birds for its masters Heshpot. When the
TurcOs had to leave Algiers the trunpeter had to
leave his hawk behind, which he did with sincere
fnr hAh had hAn
cos do to all animals they take pride in for pro
fciency in the arts they have mastered. Three
days elapsed, and the TurcO was scarcely yet
comforted, when the regiment being camped at
Ben-ChicaO cloudy something appeared to
gather above. 1t came down lower and lower,
then turned in large circle, and 10! it was the
hawk, which at length msiestioally settled on the
trumpeter's shoulder, hoarsely uttering,"A Ber-
I'm ! Berr-r-tfn J" Since then there has been no
more parting, and the last seen of the hawk was
in sweet companonship with the Turcos ut
Toilette.
A very lively picture has been drawn of the con.
fusion caused at Munich by telegraphic CORES
pondence between the King OF Prussia and the
King of Bavaria, who is the Mycene Of our times.
The opening telegram was call of seventeen
Bavarian regiments to arms. The answer, we are
assured by diplomatist, was that all the soldiers
were just then out of socks and delay was ur-
gent. Where were the mems socks! ?" ''At the
wash" why couldn't the washerwoman Of the
army get them ready?" "She had been busy over
making out the music Of the FUTURE
DRAMATIC HINTS.
This for caricaturist, and the following intelli
gence for dramatists. Alexandra Dumas (the
eider has left Paris for pleasure trip, as he
styles it, down the Rhine; and aprOpOs, q furious
manifestation about the Rhine took place at the
opera on Wednesday night. Faure had played in
the 'Muette de Portici" and sung the ''Marseil-
laise" as he did on the preceding Monday
namely, most splendidy-when the public asked
for the German Rhne;" words written by Alfred
de MlIsset, aid the music BY Deoux That very
same evening it had been settled by the manager
and orchestra that this song was to be rehearsed
as soon as the opera was over for the following
Friday. The public had prematurely determined
to have 1T directly, however, and the house would
not accept any excuse Faure was to come for
ward and sing it without rehearsal. The lessee
stepped forward and explained. The audience
would not listen to him, and sent him off with cries
of Not you Faure Faure the German
Rhine y" NJ de Girardin gesticulated m in his
hax tcla rranhirtx that u L. =