The New York herald., 1873-11-05
NAST'S SALVATION.
Tremendous Outpouring Of the
Nations Charity.
HOPE FOR THE MARTYRED ARTIST.
Covering the Blackboard with
Currency.

Deposition OF tho Union bust Company
Sends HIS Promise OF Subscription.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
Your noble efforts on behalf OF the oyerwhelm-
ingy grand and superlatively great Mast have i'm
pressed me with profound and unlinguiaistic
admiration OF that chaste and classic artist Time
was when oligarchic cynics truthfully asserted
that republics were ungrateful, but the immortal
Nast's lines nave fallen on happier times-that
is to say. the dawn OF his erst while murky
night is at hand-as is evidenced by the unex-
ampied display OF apprecative lberality which is
daily inundating your unapproachable journal.
Ho enobng to our common humanity to OBJ
serve the monogramic non-obtrusveness OF that
indignant phalanx, "the press gang" as they very
suggestvely name themselves unite in one con-
centrated intellectual flow OF mighty and majestic
protest and eleven cents These noble represen-
tatives OF the fourth estate were overcome with
raternal emotion that In ut or absentminded-
ness they forgot TO enclose the concentrated frac-
ti0na evidence OF the extreme tension under which
their highly sensitive organizations labored; but
in lieu thereof sent the devin for packet Of $50
lace," with which to alleviate their woe. The odd
cent was conflscated by the imp, who. while in
vesting in peanuts, told me how you failed to re-
ceive the press contribution.
How exquisitely touching 1t must have been to the
region OF initial pulsarory action in the editorial
mechanism to receive the Astor House contribu-
ti0n OF two-cent postage stamp How envy the
man Editorial who had such an exhilirating i'm
pulse given to his vital forces One can but family
fancy the ag0nizng twitchings which these
princely rebukes win cause in the fifth pair OF
nerves, mtdrih, gZzard and COncomitantS, which 60
to make up the illustrated propretorial animal
economy.
One OF the great missions OF the press is to ex.
pose public abuses. regardless OF party and have
we not all been overwhelmed with admiration OF
the non-partisan and discriminating manner in
which the peerless Mast has fulfilled his Illustrated
mission2 Again with what rapture do we not gaze
his counterfeit presentmentsn OF the human form
and mastery ensemblel Tenniel OF Punch, absurd
as 1t may seem Is credited with artistic talent In
his cartoons .., Of the female form, whether
artist has taught us that the exquisitely
feminine min contour Of Tenniel goddess
bygone ages. Observe the keen perception OF our
Mast Columbia is a young giant, or giantess If
all his gOddesses with colossal proportions. 1t is,
however, an incalculable loss to contemporaneous
art and ne Which .h w De much M ian n pos
ployers oil Mr.. Mast should have compelled HIM to
use for his model goddess the one unvarying, an
gular and muscular washerwOman, with the square
jaw and iron front OF defiance to all creation.
AS your subscription list already amounts to the
self the pleasure OF subscribing until my account
current with the Union Bust Company be bal
anS t my dqs @ at at present pr re ch
tached. am an attache Of the world wide known
firm OF street. Walker 4 Co. (unlmited), ior whom
dCe 10 an ihopcotvi VI puiIhc uuiluiLsS, oHu dSo
OF newspaper bulletins. owing to untoward cir
cumstances, my remttances for the Mast Fund will
probably take place three months after con-
venience. Meanwhile be good enough to cause
this sincere tribute to Mr.. Nast's merits
to be suitably framed In ssguiltn and
forwarded to that distinguished gentleman as an
humble Offering OF my esteem Tor the man who
cannot be hired to prostitute sublime art to the
vile uses OF vifying amiable and upright political
opponents, but who approaches every subject with
q kind and reconciing spirit ''One touch OF ma
ture (Nast's crayon) makes the whole world Kim"
WEMYSS.