The Portland daily press., 1875-11-25

tone anu ueHgnt1uI IN IeenDg. The compose
ton is quite picturesque, and the motion of the
water finely rendered.
Ofenbach's new comic opera, THE Voyage
la Lune," suggested by "The Tour Of the
World, mas been brought out at Paris with
tolerable success. The journey to the moon is
made by king and his son and the inventor of
a monstrous cannon, which shoots the drama
tis PERSONA to their destination without Diff
Guilty. Their experience in the moon is of
course, q continuous strain of satircal observa-
ton, quite cleverly done; and, in this respect,
the libretto is above the average of similar pro-
ductions.
"Fates and Furies" is the cheerful name Of
new American drama for which the author
cannot find market ir California.
Two pieces of sculpture, claimed to be the
work of CanOva, have been presented to Wells
college at Aurora, III. One is portrait bust
of Marie Louise 1t is said that they were
sent as present in 1889 by Louis Philippe to
a distinguished citizen of Mexico, upon whose
death they were sold and brought to this ceun-
try.
Kaulbach's famons frescoes on the walls Of
the Berlin Museum were intended by the art
ist, it is claimed, to foreshadow the destruction
of the late Napoeonic empire. Thus, the
grand entry of Titus into Jerusalem and the
tottering of the Temple on its pillars Indicate
the capture Of Paris by Won Moltke and the
pulling down of the Vendome column BY the
Communists.
A satisfactory report of the progress of the
German works at Olympia has been received at
Berlin. The full complement of men has been
secured, and upwards of fifty Greeks are now
working under the direction of their country
man, M. Demetriades, the superintendent of
the explorations. Portions of the entablature
of the east front of the Temple of Zeus have
been reached, at depth of $50 metres, and
while one band of workmen is occupied at this
point, to another has been assigned the task of
exploring the ground on which the excavated
earth is to be thrown before any great mass of
debris is accumulated. Careful borings are al
so being made to ascertain the course Of the
boundary-walls within which the sacred pre-
cincts were enclosed, and which are as yet
wholly undetermined on the eastern side of the
circuit.
One OF the most extensive art collections in
Washington is that of Mr.. Benjamin Ogle Tay-
| loe, including genuine Carlo Dolce, a Mater
Dooroso, originally in the gallery Of the Pitt
Palace, and subsequently in the Palais Royal,
Paris. There is another picture believed to be
genuine Guido. 1t is a portrait of an Aus
triAn princess, and was brought to South Caro-
lima near century ago. There is bust Of
Diana brought hther by Sir Henry Bulwer,
formerly British minister to this country.
Among the other valuable pictures is a por-
trait of General Washington by Stuart, two
rfroif 20 hxyf fha e
loe's father, Colonel Tayloe of Mt. Airy, Va,
and one of his mother, a fine portrait of Bish-
op White of Pennsylvania, chaplain to the first
Congress, by Inman, and by Doughty there is
"View at Lake George" and also "view on
the Hudson" near Cold Spring A view of
the original Catskill Mountain House. is by
WALL There are three marine views by Sal
mons aud production Of Jean Paul Potter
There is a portrait of Webster; one of Dickin-
son of Pennsylvania, author of the Farmers
Letters during the Revolutionary times, and
| an original portrait of Van Buren,. There is
copy of Canova's Dancing Girl, bought fifty
years ago. The portraits of Marie Antoinette
| and the Princess Lamballe, and three other dis.
| tinguished iladies, are exquisite specimens Of
| painting on Sevres. Some small marine
sketches are by Stanfield. There is fine copy
of HuntiBgton's ce LIBERATED Sibyl.
The course of study instituted at the Yale
Art School recently will extend over three
years and will be arranged about as follows:
First year wear: Drawing-from the fiat, from
| the antique, from the living model. Perspec-
tive-Descriptive geometry, shadows and linear
perspective, applications and examples. Lec-
| tures-The elements of form, principles of pro-
portion. Second year: Drawing-Technicai
discipline, studies from the living aaod0i Anar-
omy-The bones and articulltions of the skele.
| ton, the muscles and movements of the body,
| the anatomy of external forms. Painting
| Technical discipline, studi es from casts and
| still life. Third: Painting-Technical prac-
| tice, studies from the living model. Compost
| tion-Studies in color and chiaroscuro, design.
Lectures-On the history, theory and practice
| of art.
| Mr.. Irving Browne has written a comedy
called sour Best Society,"" in which he uses
the characters created by Mr.. Curtis in his
"Potiphar Papers," 1t was favorabiy received
at its production in Hartford. Conn.,, last week.
The current number of the Paris Revue ct
Gazette Musicale prints M. Gounod's preface
to the score of his new opera, George Dan.
din." From this interesting document it ap-
pears that the composer, instead Of an ordinary
lbretto in verse, has set to music Moliere's
original prose, and he discusses at some length
the difficulties and advantages of his innova.
tion. He admits that with regard to metrical
and rythmical regularity the adaptation of
music to prose presents serious obstacles; but
he also points out that these have been success
fully overcome time after time IN sacred music
| by Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn and other COM
posers, and urges that what has been done in
the oratorio can also be done in the opera. A
definite rhythm is just as practicable with
prose as with verse; the only element which
disappears is the rhyme; and this rather ham,
pers than assists the composer. M. Gounod
adds that "the indefinite variety of the peri
ods in prose opens before the Musician a new
horizon which delivers him from monotony
and uniformity" The London Academy says:
'The publication of the score Of George Dau-
| din will doubtless be awaited by musicians
with much curiosity. Judging from the pre-
face. we expect work as unlike conventional
dramatic music in one way the operas Of
Wagner are in another"
The Philadelphia North American says:
The Fairmount Park Art Association have
brought from Munich the fiDest bronze group
ever imported into the United States, entitled
The Dying Lioness.' The sculptor was Pro-
fessor Wolf, of Berlin, and the bronze was
cast by Won Muller, of Munich, for the Fair
mount Association, ty the special permission
of the Emperor William, who is the possessor
of the original. 1t was exhibited in the Vienna
Exposition in 1875 where it was awarded the
first prize. During the Centennial Exhibition
The Dying Loness' will be placed in the Art
CELERY, and after the Exhibition it will occupy
| prominent site in the Park
A singular and interesting discovery has been
accidentally made, says the Leeds Mercury,
with respect to the well-known hymu-tune,
ST. AIMS, which has been treated by Bach,
Macfarren, aud other less noted musicians, as
a fugal subject. Hitherto it has been almost
invariably attributed to DR.. Croft. In the
Yorkshire Exhibition, however, there may now
be seen an octave book, in which the tune is
called Leeds Tune" by Mr. DENLY This
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