Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-04-15
E1ArNE-AN ART CRITICISM.

We saw yesterday a photograph OF
Toby Rosenthal's great painting OF
| Elaine. OF course no idea of the beau
ties of the coloring or other finer dis
tinctions Of art can be conveyed by a
Photographic copy; but the gross vio-
lation of nature so pithily criticised in
the following article from the Grass
Valley Union, must be apparent to
every II who has had any experience
in aquatic amusements or exercises. II
is evident that the celebrated portrayer
Of Tennyson's brain creation has con-
siderable to learn before he will be
justly entitled to a prominent position
in the ranks of realistic artists. But
hear what the Union says:
We are no an artist, nor are WI the
son of an artist. We could learn
drawing beyond the drawing of a cork
but OF that branch of the business we
Claim to have achieved something like
success. Yet we can sometimes de-
tect a gross violation of nature III the
pictures Of the greatest artists. We
have not seen the original of Toby Ko-
senthal's great painting entitled Elaine,
but photographs of it have been sent
here. Some Of these photographs
were taken in San Francisco, and others
in Germany. They must necessarily
give an idea of the positions in the
org nal picture, although they do no;
display the coloring. In orr early
youth we have floated down the Mis-
sissippi river on a fiatboat. That part
of our early education enables us to
c~riticise the position of the drapery III
Toby Rosenthal's great painting. The
photograph before us says:
"The dead stored by the dumb
Went upward with TIE flood"
That means, we take it, that b boat
just fioated along on the tide, propelled
only by the moving waters. TIE old
dumb man, who stands in the stern of
the boat is not scnlling; he is simply
keeping the nose of hat boat pointed
in a certain direction, and is letting the
motion OF the water bear her on; he is
steering and not ~propelting the boat.
Then there Is drapery hanging owe
the side of the boat and into the water.
That drapery is drawn toward the
stern of the boat, as if the boat had
more motion than does the water on
which she il simply floating. That is
where our fiatboat experience comes
in. We used to notice that when a
boatman tied his dirty shirt to a line,
while floating down the Mississippi
river, and threw it overheard that il
might receive the necessary cleansing
in some degree, the shirt would float
along with the boat, or perhaps a lit
tie ahead of the boat, but never to-
ward the stern of the boat. or course
If the boat has more than a floating
motion whatever drags in the water
goes toward the stern of the craft.
Take q block of wood and throw a
piece of cloth over 1t and turn the
block loose in a stream OF water. Let
the ends of the cloth dip into the water.
The cloth will float ahead a little more
rapidly than does the wood. That is
what's the matter with Toby's picture,
VIOLATION OF A COPYRIGHT.-
Somebody in San Francisco has had
printed in pamphlet form the Grafton
delivered by our junior last Fourth Of
July, before the Hoodlum Association
of Austin. The literary pilferer had
not ever the grace to credit the author
with the production, hut had the as
rance to send him a copy by mail,
thus adding insult to injury. The
author assures us that the right to
print the speech was long since secured
at an enormous expense by the sazerac
Lying Club of Austin, whics powerful
association will prosecute to the bitter
end all violatcrs of the copyright. 2
LEXINGTON GUARDs.-A meeting for
the permanent organization of a mill
tary company at Phoebe has been
called for the 10th inst, the centennial
anniversary of the battles Of Lexing-
ton and Concord, and the Journal sug.
gests that the company be named the
" Lexington Guards" in honor Of the
event.
SEVERAL of our Nevada exchanges
comment severely on the late report OF
Mr.. Whitehill, the State Mineralogist.
The position of Mr.. Whitehill Is a Pc
culiarly delicate and embarrassing one.
1t is q very difficult and almost hope
less task to collate full particulars con-
corning the numerous districts and
mines, and in the limited space ievot.
ed to the purpose it is impossible to
present a satisfactory. exhibit which
shall cover all or evensa large part OF
the ground. Mining amen are very