, 1876-11-12
He Wonders People Object
to Public Abuse.
Counting the Slain in the Art
Museum.
4 Distinguished Artists Opinion
"Unsophishcated " Gives Her
opinion---Politica1 Agree
ment.

Butler. comes out victorious for the Seventh
District, and King Wendell looks as if the mil
lennium had already begun. Whoever sits On the
TOP seat in the White House now will not con-
ccrn our Wendell much. He is perfectly conf.
dent that the "widow" can manage any anu
every refractory element, unaidcd and alone
"I want Massachusetts, to send an unbroken
Republican delegation to Congress, and at the
head Gen. Butler" be said the other night
"Without him you may as well send oody
without head, The eyes Of the Whole South
are upon this district. Send Gen. Butler and
they will say,
.pos'r FIRE; WE'LL CONE DowN.'''
And so Ring Wendell IS triumphant and
happ;, for the SeTenth District sends his con-
oucrinc hero. heard OF Mr.. Phillips the other
day that he is very much surprised when the
men-the political opponents whom he lavishes
his extraordinary abuse upon In publfc-are
offended with him. He is quite ready to say all
manner Of good things about them in private,
and to meet them with all his social geniality.
He evidently understands politics more as a
trade than rcformers generally do.
But while the war OF politics RACES and the
votes are being counted, met the other day, in
q far corner Of the city, out Of the rage,
ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT OF TIE
POLIT1CIANS,
iu the Art Museum, down on the bleak end OF
Boylston street.
what, yoa herea" cried in amazement,
pemosratic @ ai slatn,'' he laughed, land I'm taS
ing long breath for it."
And this Is typical Of the best type Of the
Bostonian. After all, don't think Gen: Butler
would drift here, nor any of the candidates foT
office, but 1t is 4 blessed thing that now and
then can be found man who can be interested
without being soalotoed up in politics, and ii he
is to be found anywhere it Is certainly III Bos
ton. But let us turn aside while waiting for the
,lain and consider the fine museum
Boston has the reputation Of being one OF the
>oHccrnins any Of her s'adrantages,' y from the
Common and the Public Garden to the last new
notion in transcendental ethics, but think she
has kept very modestly quiet, and quite un-
necessarily so, about her best Of achievements
the new Art Museum. For the first time I
went in the other day in company with no less
an artist than
TIE FRANCo-AMEEIcAN, BACON,
whose fine picture - The Boston Boys" sora1ely
praised by all the critics, is san to bc SO
badly hung at the Exposition. that the
it. Mr. Bacon's Judgment Of the museum
Is certafaly worth glving as coming from a man
ana IN artist who for the last thirteen years has
had the advantage Of fellowship with most Of
the famous French artists, to say nothing Of the
and the cultivation there1rom. Il It's the finest
thing in America" was this Judgment pro-
nounccd after his first visit, and as urgence to
his companion at the moment for q seSond yisit-
The building itself is not beautiful, though an
attempt at bcauty is pcrrciyablc. It Is 1t rcd
new hotel 1oois, which conveys nothing Of the
noble interior to the mind. But, ascending the
short and easy fight of steps, one soon enters
that interior. And Oil entering it felt that
Er. Bacon's remark that it was
THE FINEST THING IN AMERICA
was better worthy the tribute than l thought,
and that without further exploration than the
immediate glimpse Of that wide hall, marble
saved, aud grandly ]ighted By the great arched
<indow crowniug nll the broad frontage Of
we'll been applied to an older country
than ours; where to be the finest thing lal
super significance by greater wealth OF contrast.
And from this floor opens the various rooms
devoted to the Egyptian and Grrciau antiqui-
ties, anclen: pottery. casts from Assyrian and
early Greek marb1cs, and from the Grnco-
Roman and Renaissance. These US well as the
rest OF the collection are either loaned or gifts
from the fortunate Bostonians to the Trustees
OF the Museum when, it VAS = mere.
ssmes5s ie 'Ss don't 1t p1opess ss to time evsa a5
self, or walking guidc-3ooE through the
we've had about enough of that dc
su1ptlTe freedom III the "ExposIt1on Letters "
to bc lcssor, one would think, to all cor
respondents In the futurc But what do pro-
pose Is to give the united comment o1 my
Will all Ills opportunity OF
culture anu taste, and Ills, per contrast,
uSsoPnis71cATED coAfAS1oS.
and to give THIS, must pass by the lower
nooi, Win us antiqultacs, anu proceed at once
to the second door. to the great hall VI paintings
Tue light thrown from thc great windows is
magnsiicently generous, and throws into relief
every feature and smallest detail OF the canvas
es. We turn to the right and here Is i Nelson
lansqu nets Tie greatest novice can
sec the beauty Of Meissonier's cotoring II moth
Ing more. and the Dcux LansQueucts is there
fore thoroughly appreciated by the unsophisti-
Gated companion. But here lew steps on is
the = Head of Lion - by Ruhcns. This is
tine," comments the experienced artist, as he
ooks ut the ticrccly yawning mouth, hlteous
that it IS rcyolting, and that it must be relief
to the owner to have the monster grinning its
ugly appetite on some other wall than his own,
however much he, the owner, may appreciate
old masters !" and
''Go IN" FOE HIGH ART"
OF course :" unsophisticated " IS "sat down
npon" very hard BY the experienced artist; but,
being Of gutta peEcha elasticity, She does not
Eail to rise again. And with renewed yfgor
she goes on and admircs onc of Greuze's
heads. called s'Chapcaus de allie" She can
zee that this is both tender tc color aud grace
tseu IN drawing, but she looks across the way
and there Is q genuine Cuyp, GIRL" Cuyp's
O8QEnEGfs' the catalogue tells us. uu0 one VI