New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-04-22
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touching picture Of the grand old poet in extreme age
Deaf, lame, and blind, Lander was,-qudits dTtfer
pciu! The letters, poems, and criticisms OF his last
three wears Of life full Of thought and excellence
The love OF song stayed by him. he was aRQet above all
and hike all poets young in feeling TO the last, and
fond Of bringing youth and beauty around him. We
owe 10 one enthusiastic girl in whom both these graces
were united striking picture Of the old minstrel with
his oam-white pariarchal beard his eonine visage,
ana head not unlike that OF Michael Angeles Moses;
and the fresh and eager mind of such listener
with his own aesthetic sensblities for the time well
pleased that he offered priceless fragments Of wit and
courtesy and expounded the simply perfect canons Of
bis verse The finest thing know Of SwnOurne's life
is his pilgrimage Italy and unselGsh reverence at the
feet incompatible artist the unconqueraoe free
man, TO whom he
Game as whose thoughts bali Insef,
The vo llas' ST 81 to ' The Oldest singer
That England bore
- some who then for the first time ~ Lander, and
who were not endowed with the refined perceptions OF
these young enthusiasts the fObes OF his latter days
obscured genius at this distance, they seem
only the tremors Of the dying on When at the age OF
egntynno years and nine months he breahed his last
at Florence il was indeed like the death OF monarch
Of the forest-most unamed when powerless away from
the region which gave him BIRTH aud the air which fos
tered his scOrnful yet heroic spirit"
Harper opens with an article on "Life under
the Ocean Wave" giving condensed popular view Of
some Of the discoveries OF submarine research in that
branch OF yscal science The writer has made excel
lent OF the ample authorities the subject and de-
rived from them The materials for instructive aud
agreeable paper In the account Of the Wiertz gallery
IN Brussels the visitor that capital will be reminded
Of one OF the remarkable collections of original
paintings in Europe although he may not as
sent to the nigh estimate which is here placed upon
their merits The pictures must be regarded
as crandiose rather than grand, surprising the
4.1Hr offa of aVlO
audaety although leaving strong impression OF great,
but undiscpned power. The history however both OF
the artist and his productions which given is one
Of uncommon interest. and will suggest an object OF
curiosity TO the tourist Of which he will not hud the
like in the worldrenOwned collections Of art. Wiertz
was a signal example OF aesthetic fanaticism. The
passion for eyinced from his earliest childhood
He made drawings before he could alone, and
tried TO color them with the juices of berries
and plants. He carved whimsical figures with his
jackknfe. Before he fourteen years old ne was
stirred TO the depths by ms admiration for Rubens.
Kind patron took him 10 Antwerp, obtaining for him
rang pension from the king On this little sum OF less
than sixty dollars be kept soul ana body together, prac
tcng the most rigid economies and spending scarcely
farthng except for food He lodgedn his studio, which
was in the miserable of granary, without fire
ucht-ght, and low that he could not stand III II
upright. Here lie worked all day long; IN the evening
cheering his Loneliness with wild, weird music and IN
the ntensest cold Winter painting through the dreary
hours as wretched in his externals beggar, but
happy his ecsatic devotion 10 Art any lover. He
would not paRt for money. His works were never
offered sale Hence his pictures not to be found
except in the Brussels gallery, which is devoted TO his
singular and grotesque faucies. In his twentysixth
year, Wiertz went ito Rome, with the dream OF pro-
ducng masterpiece winch should fasten on
canvas the poetry Of the Grecian heroic age
He read and reread the Had OF Homer.
Like the cOnquerOr OF Darius" he said keep him
under my bolster II is singular how the reading of
Homer frenzies me- think continually of the struggle
between Ajax and Hector 1t is these who transport me
most when think Of producing a great work. They
inspire sort Of herOisn, and the desire TO
tat the grandest masters. To give myself emulation
dare throw down challenge 10 the greatest eOOrists
want 20 measure myself with Rubens and Michael An
CELLO" The fruit Of tins artistic spasm the truly
wonderful picture of The Greeks and TrOans contend
ing for the body OF Patrocus" the dimensions Of this
work gigantic. The stands thirty feet in
hight and Is twenty feet wide. The central figures
the beautiful nude corpse OF Patroclus and Menelaus
a divine fury seeking To drag IL from the Grecian
samp. 1.-THE coOring' says the writer els superb
every Of flesh there the flushed vigOr OF the com
batans, the CHASTITY paOr Of the dead and the dying
the pouring red blood the shades OF falling night
throwing boldly into relief the Of charOoscurO
IA the warrior thrOng" His further statement is
Dpcn to question 1t is perhaps too much 10 say that
any painter has fairly Tiyaed Rubens but it is
sufficient to say Of Wertz that ne has nearly APP
conception, and in perfection of coloring, than any
other modern artist las done" The picture created
profound sensation in Rome, where 10 was
Hrst exhibited. When ThorwaldseR saw it, he said Of
Wiertz This young man Is giant" 1t was placed on
free exhibition Lege, and Wiertz at became the
lion Of the hour. But il failed Paris, and
the experience gave tiuge of melancholy TO the
subsequent life OF the painter II is more than
seven years since the death of Werz but his name Is
hardly known outside Of Belgium yet as the writer
Justly remarks few painters have ever lived with such
unquestionabe genius such resoute industry and such
solcal scdenia who have fallen so far short OF general
renown. HIS paper will dOsbtess Introduce many
American tourists 70 q study Of art, the character
Of which he has faithfully and mpressiyey described
Lippipeon gives the conclusion of the inter
estug series on wilmington and Its Industries" pre-
seDting that ancient city sharp concentration Oi
all that is good in American he" The elements Of pop
ulation Wilmington would be the despair OF the Elm
nologst. Tie DatclL the swedes end the English
Quakers formed the susTatum upon which we're poured
the eInigrauts OF the French Revolution and The
fugitiyes from sauto Domingo. Tie French house
maids stood on wasbiSG benches IN the BRANDY
wine, and taught the astOnished Quaker wives thai
laundry-wOrk could be done IN cold watef The names
OF Grand old French families, with sOnorous snsocTac
prehxes became blended by marriage With 0utandlsh
Swedish aud Dutch as syensSon and StaekOppe The
fame Of this old IN the construction Of DWaycars
has fpread wherever the iron horse has set Ms foot
Travellers al this moment spiDning along the track
in Wilmington carriages over the extreme parts OF |
North and gonth America commenting on the strange
rees of Bluter aud tropical scenery Ia English, German,
French, Spanish, and in fact in all the civilized |
languages OF the world. The associative system has
here bcen carried into successful operation, by which
ne fragments Of large piece Of ground paid for by
do rees in eight nine years by the profit on the con
tributed moneys giving every workman secure and
home Taking RAPID stgide from Delaware