New-York tribune., 1875-12-25
NEw.YORK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25 is

They are like travellers who no beauty in he Silent
life is mostly memory The greatest good We Ees from
the waysde flowers is the honey Of memory.
"You cannot make Mercury ont of all sorts of wood
said spirit1ast OF antiquity We can say afier tat ar
socrac philosopher, that Z there is equality among
gods there he among men Becanse man s n9t @
knowledge aud his unity OF voton he reaches this or
that elevation BY knowing himself he mobiles himself
There whose distant echo sounds IN our hearts T
when twine the garland Of twenty years II IL , ~.
song of death which haunts more and more loudly
two or three times. Death with his wooasna - I @
away the green branches where the cooing doves
were nesting.
n ear painted & Dgcss ra IN two pGras psTsnus
write the debit ana credit side Of their ledger o'
II lie had ts fixed beginning aud end. could finish
works affairs before gong INTO tue % O'sr t
world but thing Is begun when we come 10 'he
earth, nothing is ended when We leave IT,
Tie gods envy us the ladder of fire by which we seek
them.
always by the reformation Of petty aouses ns .tt tsst
pretext OF doing good
write according to rules Why Aristotle born after
HOmeri
Truth s the child OF time God did not choose IN evok-
in the world from chaos 10 finish bis work at once lie
has left his creatures. The greatest scuiptor9
and paners have often signed their works before their
last stroke was gwen them. and seulptJrs do
retOuCh their works. because tney nope to surpss
them Bus We retouch every day Win pious hahds 'he
works Of Cod
1aet mako mo m her n
Conservatar at the Louvre who would like 10 retouch all
the masterpieces lie obsnatey insists on giving arms
10 the Venus OF Milo. Mr. C0nseryatOr," it was re-
Gently him. you here to conserve and not to
add" 1t was NJ de Vllancourt who said this. He does
not make masterpieces but be a dab at puns He had
before said that the Venus OF Milo like our troops ~
Tours because she was in want OF arms great while
ago Cesnger attempted the impossible task OF supply
ng them Certainly possesses in higher degree
than he the sentiment OF grand art He dared 20 restore
the bareefs Of the Partnenon with the pride OF style
Of Pmdias But vanly did he try to give arms To the
Venus oi Milo, who did not want them. For whatever
the art Of tnc sculptor. Is beautiful without
arms than with them, this Victorious Beauty who seems
u have laid down her after the conquest OF the
world
In fact. al monuments in ruin beautiful than
those freshly built This The opinion 0f jules Naes
who wished destroy all existing masterpieces But
this was opinion OF the witty Aucr that charm
ing composer killed by the but who lives for
ever among Gerome told yesterday word OF his
worth recording They dnin at the painters, anu
talking OF art. Gerome called his guest 10 order Tie
subject shoppy and besides there were several LADIES'
or less painted
"Gcutemen, are not IN the studio"
"Dou'c prevent US" said Auber, from seeing lie In
rosc-coor."
But this il not the speech going to report The
conversation still about painting. though with
turn more philosophical than professional Each one
was talking Of his favorite color one Liked green ono
red and 30 On. Al last G6some. turning to Auber said
"Aud you, my il usJriOus and venerable rend what Is
your color 2"
Flesh color" said the old man, with his charming
smile.
Micheet called history the punishment OF the bad and
the Paradise Of good Auber has entered into thas
paradise They higge about his tomb. What OF that
The opera is his monument
Michelet was a great genius. who would have been
greater II he were less passionate. But perhaps his
passion was the gin Of his He had iurl'as
attachment 10 what he Thought truth and Justice.
Michel Levy has just published posthumous work OF
Mcbelet volumes OF ardent pages on the nineteenth
century from the 18Th Brumaire 70 Waterloo. In his
fury asan. the usual ready-made entbusiasms he has
made a partisan pamphlet instead OF history and has
been unlustly Just. For instance. in his indignation
against Napoleon he has passed his last days in stOnng
him Ia his horror OF tradition he has invented history
he finds every one preiudiced but himself. Reading him
sometimes Ike dream. He Is the advocate OF
humanity but he advocates it too much lie sacrifices
too many men to humanity. Any one else saving the
same things would not be listened to ten MN
utes but Mchelet speaks with sort OF inspra-
tion which is strangely fascinating. He throws
vo into an agreeable fever. With him You fe- yourself
better. even though other men suffer. II you take
Ncnelet literally in his last two volumes, Napoleon
would fall INITIATED from his pedestal " He Is nothing
but a comedian and rogue who makes Of war stage
for the production Of his and OF France prison
where he alone free" He again that the reign of
Napoleon cnervated the century from hs birth and
sowed the seed NJ lifelong hatreds which vet hold us
aoof srom Europe Does " Mchelet think the Revoin-
ton sowed nohngi Mcheict thus ends his introduc-
ton: had the misfortune TO be born and Ia grow up
in this fatal epoch and I may that France never
was the dupe Bona, AL who followed with their
eyes The great iuggier balancing himself IN the clouds,
said continually, That will end badly"
What does not end badly
prefer NapOeon's opinion OF himself q" am the
people crowned" he said TO Benjamin Constant
ARsEEE HOCssAYE.
FOREIGN OPINION.