New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-03-23

pa,nters AIston gets the lions share of attention.
Huntngton's execution is pronounced good, though
snbduedn The colong OF Page Is praised, and some vi
b,s portraits; but told that he has not been
equally happy with his ideal subjects of tho American
.rst colony AZ Rome brief mention is made Vedder 10
noren Of instv "a one Of the most original OF Amer'
can painters distinguished especially for quaintness
nth an hs snbeets and their treatment. This quality
anpears In the very Of some OF his pictures VINO
else would have conceived and chrstened The bAr VI
Tho sea serpepv "The Lost Mind" "The Arab listen
ING with his ear to the Great Sphinx The marvel Is
how one book tell us so much about 80 many d'N'
ent artists, and 40 many pictures
old and Netc for April is nearly ready. Mr.. Hale oe
vo,es his Introductory" to discussion OF the read
ustment OF our political parties He takes 1t granted
that new parties are to DO formed but he says that m
suryeyinc the materials for these II must not DO over
looked that there more than mllioh voters ho" "
the country TO whom the events OF 1861 are almost ~
much matters of history those OF lt's INC Poi'"
clans by profession do not seem to see ths' i"oS ~
Time to offer war candidates and war ISSUES IN giving
the most taking cries" for But that Young
America which was II years old IN 1901 ana Is % years
old to-day thinks all this very old story, ana tho
neon,e who repeat IL very old fogies In ru6 says
Mr. Hale the military regulations made by the war
have not been Of the most satisfactory kind The 1rst
general OF the proves TO he AFRAID OF the-Secou'
Can IL be that by this last sentence Mr. Haze means ta
President Grant is afraid of Gen. Butlerf III ne does
and if it seems ilnatured forgive him! 1t was not
pleasing to Boston to send TO Washington delegation
of her picked men, and have them come back again nkc
1.-THE old Queens arm that gran'ther Young
Fetched back from Coucord-busted"
Give US u little time, and we shall grow amiapie
again.
There have great changes since the war and Mr.
Hale ia that tho new political party which Is TO
succeed must recognize these three ceranes OF our
Arn.r ica "
new West The country wants good government, and
good government, Just now, means easy and cheap
transit between East and West; the education ana CIV
zatlon OF the blacks and whites at the South the mar
mony of the legislative with the executive departments
at Washington; the judcious separation OF state poll
ties from the politics OF the nation and zealand deeply
rooted Civil Service Reform.
There is q liberal nsallmeDt OF Tro!lope's novel, Inc
WAY We 1--we Now" in this number. Mr.. Perkins's
scrope or The Lost Library" is also continued ana
Isabella Grant Meredith contributes very good short
story entitled "Achsa's Possibilities" There are
poems too three them, and one or two brief essays
There is essay winch is not brief, but which ~
noble, and thoughtful and mastery paper refer 10
1.-THE Church and its Prcensions, by the Rev. James
Martineau. However the reader may differ from MI
Martneau in belief is impossible not 10 respect his
candor his logic aud his wonderful power OF clear state
ment
r. St. John sTyrwhitt takes up the subject of Cinqne
Cent? or RendssGnceswhich he treats IN an interest
ing and able manner. lie gives his own nterpreta-
ton of the much discussed HcGissInce, the spring
of the Gothic mind into delighted life getting fresh
lessons from the Greek tho 'med9val from the
classical and he thinks this Interpretation holds good
in literature and art alike for 1t is impossible 20
separate the progress fine arts from the progress
of the other activities OF the human mind OF the ne"
Renaissance Of time, while we know not as yot
what It may bring forth, Mr.. Tyrwhitt SAYS;
II seems al present jealous Of the minor matters
OF the laws decorative beauty than OF the greater,
anxious about robes tan ifoscOes aud addicted 10
ceremonial rather than sculpture Until history be fOI-
lowed back TO the original examples and documents OF
the primitive faith, IL seems to stand 10 reason tot
nothing ike primitive decoration can ever he had Out
Its subjects ascertanabe and asceraned ana per
haps tc truest Renaissance OF All, Tor @ VIII ne he re-
of English painters 10 sacred WORK IN sacred places
The great work OF Mr. Holman Hunt is now open to
The public uniting IN Itself the two IDEAS OF me form or
Lord which have been preserved in the Christian
farest OF all men, also as Possessing no iOn OF cOucl
the ascetc sense; and the painters great skill
and singular happiness ia the selection Oh BIS model nave
enabled hlm III great degree, 10 combine the asGetc
and the beautiful ideal. The renascence OF the highest
and most spiritual we'll most powerful
art not TO be despaied of IN the nation or at the
lne, which Las PRODUCED SUCH picture as this
One OF the splcest Articles in the number 10 entitled
The Rights OF Tweed and other Convicts." Convicts,
says author have rights SO have the foreign KIND
Of heather. No Christian soul Will deny that y tho
light of even the ModOcs t. nave Christ p.e,cned TO
hem; that Isl 70 be made good, TleModocs arc at our
loor and steal our silver spoons and our overcoats.
We must shut them up fison, OF course, for
,afety; but no Qns deny their right to be made
good citizens Il the effort to do this fairly made
Viii not the convict Tweed be the victim of real In
ustice2 That Mr.. Tweed should be treated as a GRIM
nal is right enough There Is Injustice IN that Tho
INJUSTICE IL in not treating him criminal ought TO
be treated
PEOPLE say that Tweed got what he deserves that
probably he Will Gle before his term IL ended: that ne
will manage TO escape that he will manage TO be par
ioned out; anything that implies guilt death or eva
SION Has any suggestion been made by any human De
ng that the poor old bc cuIedf Has any
minister preached the duty OF Christians, or the power
VI Christianity. TO make him good man Has any
DeWspper either religious, secular, or seGtalian, ar
serted ii Probably people WOuldat 1rst, al any
laugh at the suggestion, OF DC uscased at
But nobody thinks il frivolous TO try the influences
which ought 10 be eicaeous OIL Iweed-ahd 70 tiy the
leriy foreign heather. And 1t IS neither JOKING nor
riyolty to ask the same Kindness the same socltlde
he same missionary effort, for this eminent NeWlOrk
heather that thought right and so hcpefu as 10
he one the greatest or Christian duties for hesthens
whose compilations, instead of white, fd, yell
Ow OF olive black whose residence Is any Wnere not
a, eeting az the clouds instead Of being legally 1xed
ana who, instead OF deliberately declaring themselves
without any religion, have one that they IefVehy pc
eye and diligently practice. II IL Is duty 10 MAKE
good Christian citizens out OF the heathen II Is duty 10
make one out or JWeeu
II the question whether this task can De zone is 10 DC
considered before attempting 1t. might well give
lp on that head all the tasks OF the higher lhefor Ill
The Christian service the whole army IL the forlorn
hone According 10 simplest Christian justice, what
Tweed has a right to- beyond the means OF living, Is
that he shal be made good citizen before being turned
oose among other good citizens and that he shall be
kept so afterwards This pronunciamtento IA to the
rights of the great New York heathen@ s the text for
an admirable article prison discipline In which IL
letter, before printed, written In
1886 70 Horace Manu. by Capt Maconochie the originator
Of what known the Irish system Of prison manage
nent-s system whose chief characteristic is that 1t
seeks the thorough and lasting reform Of conyics into
good citizens and which Chains 10 have accomplished It,
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