Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-11-15

twilight, unfold their bright petals and drop
their shining buds of harmless flame, as after
dinner toys, are the playful offspring OF the
japanese brain and the grand bronze, fifty
feet high and ninety-six feet in eircum-
fercnce-the image Of Budda in Nirvana,
seated on a lotus leaf, and rapt IN blest
repose-is described by Professor Pumpely.
who visited its sacred grove, as successful
rendering of a profound religious abstrac-
ton
Between these contrasting limits what
wide range Of art. All the intermediate
sentiments, from playfulness to alteration,
are expressed in numberlcss ianciiul forms,
with an Oriental quaintness, childlke
| earnestness, and a chromatic grace that
charms the heart and fascnates the eve. We
! hardly think our homes complete without
some keepsake Of the . sunny Land, - even
/ IL it be nothing more than a little Caskot
mprovsed from the lacquer drinking cup of
a japanese peasant; or one Of those sym
mctrcal boxes used by letter carriers OF the
/ East, surfaced with mosaic OF brightly dyed
straw to hold cur biHets d0UI.
- Ii is in the use Of colOr-that - heirloom
of the East and IN a genuine love Of
Nature, keeping ever true 10 animated and
expressive lines, that the power consists by
which japanese artists have succeeded in
/ giving 2alue To the yerieSt tries of their
now far sought merchandise
/ me my IeaI ana PoI' Vhe creeping Iu'tl1'
and the soaring stork' renclied with gdt
upon the simplest lacquer tray, are as sug
/ gestively characteristic of the LIVING images
| they translate as the historic characters III
their priceless albums ; the imperial cIrYs-
authemums and the r0se-collrei carnations
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n.atefII. ttrl,k. il v-,rb NH tfe STRENGTH he
has left. ana somehow mana -es rg swallow
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messing But now. dear friend. lust take,
lne IittIe rI4te.uI more
But on hearing tins. OUR us1r Ph5cas.
much ms be liked f9b .slr. catcbiD, hold N
bis can ami sash. ran s,vtv home without
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rims has b, crossed Dtui4n-- threshold
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collection nf thf- arrfsr.s fIrirIvc works
treasured in s ,rttsei,i, at PARIS Is said =,
bayc leen valu.rIv successive r, tiu-t4zeI
D,re IN, his .-tdi,s for his lannon's. ,.,rjettilrt-
and fairy rcprc-entati4p- But the most
rerfert src-imors of raintin- are kent i'm
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or are he'd Gv cytrtvl.,lnr price from the
reach Of foreigners. Among these are au
Album of Birds" exquisite fevaui ie-
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