The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-05-15


OF The nations vast museum !; place OF
amusement. not OF work an Elysium, to
which all the worlds idlers and trifess--all
who are p'ethoric with wealth which they
are puzzled to spend-all who are diving OF
cnnui. and seeking for new divorces to kill
time--natu' ally flock. Here are the appli.
ances, multiplied and diversified, with the
keenest refinement of sensual ingenuity. for
keeping the mind busy without labor, and
fascinated without sensibility. The senses
oftbe Persian are every where captiyated
with piquant hairs as he steps into the
world. he. fluids life all prepared for, him,
and selects 1t as he does his dinner. from the
long carte OF the restauranle. Where but
| In France wou'd grave jurist write learn
ed work on the Physiology Of Taste, and an
nonnce thai "rhe discovery of a new dish
docs more Tor human happiness than the dis
cOveFy ut new star !" or u great ststesm9n
complain OF the English people that they
have $50 FORMS ol religion aud but ona sauce,
lpamely, melted butter? It is Significant
fact that Paris has scarcely any other employ.
mems for It's 900 600 OF Inhabitants than
I Juob tuOSO "uiSR orc bHC HTSb TO I&tI Ia INC
hour OF sdversi,y, Its tauooureN are occupied
by manut 'ctnrers, not+of attic es that men
nsuSt have, bat OF brunzes, aormolu, marque.
ts-rio, MISUNDERSTANDING, mirrors, china,
clocks, table-ornaments, marbles, and all
that contributes to mere appeawance and en-
ioyment You viii Hnd In the city aSout an
equal number OF celebrated dsncing-masters
and celebrated teachers OF mathematics; and
the municipality pays one-third more for ita
fetes han it does for its religion r..
more faithfully than In anything else, Ia mir
ron,d the n&Gonal character; and true "a
this is OF every civilized nation, 1t is espec
isly true OF the French. The leading incl.
ecfs OF France have been always, not only
he authors, but also the exp0nsuts of the
thoughts and feelIhgs OF the people aud
no where has a more perfect allegiance been
rendered TO those intellectual kings who gov.
cru by the the divine right of wit and gent
us and who, when dead, still ''rule us from
their urns." The first TACT that impresses
ever student OF French literature is the re-
ma kable clearness of the writers-their su,
per,ority 10 all their European rivals In pres.
piculty and precision. II is a remarkable
fact that in the age Of Our great writes,
when our literature was uArivaled in the
gorgeous opuence Of IFS rhetoric, the En-
glish language was never once made the OBJ
ject OF conscious attention. No mau seems
ever to have reflected that there was wrong
nd Nh IN, l,o obo& - ~
ses, in the mechanism of sentences, or even
III the grammar. Men wrote eloquently be-
cause they wrOI e feelingly they wrote lido
mai icaliy because they wrote naturally and
Ithout affectation but il false or sceph-
alOus structure OF sentence-ifa barbarous
word or foreign idiom CHANGED to present
itself. no writer OF the seventeenth century
was scrupulous enough to correct it. The
French writer's, on the other hand early saw
the supreme Importance of artistic expIsss-
ion, and gave more attention 10 the culti-
walton of their laDguage-to the study Of it's
idiomatic niceties and deliaacles-shnn any
other people. Partly because the French
mind has keener perception than the En-
glish of the Greek Ike simplicity and direct
ness which belong TO the highest artistic
beauty partly because the French have
more conscience In intellectual masters and
partly because the Fyench Academy acted as
Asliterary police for the suppresspor oil verbal
LICENSE. France, more than two centuries
ago, took the lead in literary workmanship,
and that supremacy she still mai ntains
While the great WRITER'S OF England were
still pouring forth their thoughts with artis-
tic skill, Or were r sing to, perfect beauty or
statement only when possessed with that
whitehead OF passion which gives to rhetoric
an arrowy directness and'a rhythmicaL flow
France has already achieved classic pro-
priety of style, and to-day she teaches rhsto.
ric to England with as much authority ~
Greece taught it to Rene. WHAT English
author OF the sixteenta,or seventeenth CEN
turies rivals in style the exquisite beauty of
Pascal? Who in the eighteenth exhibits
such command Of all the Injuries aad DEL
,eacies Of expression-sueh marriage of
rhythmiesl music with logic accuracy of
thought IS Paul Louis Courier ?-and where in
the nineteenth shs al we-a0d another style SO
artistic as that OF Renan or George Saasa !: so
Edelicate, brilliant. eqsabe, and stoong as
tthat of Saiute Btuve?
It. is q singular fact that the offs @uoted
Esayings, Language waF given to man to
Econceal his thought" Should have como
| rom FreDchman-the man who, OF all men
Ion the fare of the earth, wears his heart on
hhis sleeve. and no sooner has Thought or
emotion than he is in an egony to Co&nmuui.
cate it. Ot all the faHits OF style, snere is
none Tor which Frenahnan has 30 profound
la horror as for obscurry, Take aii OF the
Gallo writers from Mpntagne to Lamartine,
and search through the works OF each from
ltnle-page to fins. and. you Will hunt as VAN.