The Republican journal., 1876-10-05
,eptional ability in catching anG fixing the de-

ceptional ability in catching and fixing the de-
tailed features which make crowds so difficult
to paint. Many of the faces are actual por-
traits, and every smallest item of such a scene
is carefully drawn. His -" Marriage of the
Prince of Wales" is almost priceless, because
every individual in the bridal procession was
painted from life. A charming fancy by Mil
las he has called ''Early Days" A tiny little
damsel has robed herself like her grandmother,
and sits holding, with infinite gravity, black
kitten, whose rough fur and glaring green eyes
seem specially diabolical; but the baby face
above them is that of an angel
can't begin to name the gems that are on
every hand. Even my favorites are quite too
numerous, but know you will like "rhe fruit
girl of Caro;' you will stop with memory of
your Sunday School days before 1.-TWO women
grinding at the Mill ;""Will he do it:' is full of
boyish frolc. 'News from the War" where
the Old shepherd stands in the snow looking
absenty over stone wall, while his dog is at
his heels. will tell its own story. 1.-The Death
OF Cleopatra" and the grand collection of noble
heads showing Il sectalian council, over which
the apo,tatc Julian prcsides, will force you to
admire them; and then there is "a Misty
Morning. before which certain old bachelor
from Boston might be found in silent alteration
almost every day. Certainly it was Il refresh
ing subject during the heated term, but in the
midst of this storm don't care to describe it.
"MY LADY Is WIDOW AND CHILDLEss."
Every mother stops before this with all her
maternal heart in her eyes. The canvass is
large, showing in the background stately wo-
man walking beneath noble trees A book is
in her listless hand; widows cap hides her
hair, and heavy widows weeds enshroud her
form. Her face is intensely sad and the
eyes are bent upon group in the foreground.
There, one of her farm laborers has met his
pretty wife. His tumbIed hair and sunburnt
face; his bare muscular arms, coarse attire and
farming tools the insignia of his humble
lot, but a laughing, growing baby is springing
| toward him from the mothers clasp; her face
is sweet with welcome, aud another wee
| todding thing clingjng to her gown is eager to
| greet daddy" They are all radiant with
health and content, and the wife is saving -NY
| Mdy is Il ri0Glr QAd chHWeSS'"
| | am glad that ! came in the early days Of the
|
| these treasures my own 50 fully that, though
the wide Atlantic may roll between these
| shores and the halls where they shall hereafter
| hang, the eyes that shall gaze on them there
will not see them any more clearly or enjoy
them any more fully, than | shall, sitting here
and remembering them in all their grace and
! beauty.
| y GIANT HAND.
| On the border of the pretty lake, just beyond
Frank LesIie's pagoda, tall derrick has excited
| the curiosity of the passing crowd. bat no one
| could guess what was being raised. till we re-
membered that France had presented America
| with Il giant statue Of Liberty. This is to be-
| placed on Be,iloes Island. in New York harbor.
| The height of the statue is one hundred and
| thirty feet; the pedestal will rise a hundred
feet, so that the head of the goddess will be
higher then Trinity spire, and higher than the
| towers Of the Brooklyn bridge. For gems heI
crown shall show flashing stars of brillia@t
light, and the bronze torch in her hand shal
be tipped with actual flame. That we may
| have some idea of the mammoth proportion;
Of the figure, the hand AID wrist have beer
brought hithcr The Greek fable tells Us o.
the Trojan horse in which thirty soldiers were
easily hidden: but if this hand is Il sample, oui
goddess might prove a shelter for vice thirty
men. The famous Colossus of Rhodes lowered
but ninety feet, yet twelve Years were required
to complete it. This generation acts mucl
more rapidly, and Liberty, i grander deity
than Apollo, shall guard our coast more Sil
credy than he kept the Rhodian shores. An
| earthquake overthrow that statue, aud his
worship is but Il thing of history. The earth
quake Of political strife came 20 lis threatening
our Liberty. but the lreatlfGl shocl, only mad,
her seem to reel, and when its vibration hat
ment than ever, our goddess stood, holding
aoft her torch Of hope that all the nations
might see how fair was her domain. For gen
crations the French have deemed her name n
| ncanatlon; They have murnured it. witt
| prayerful tones or shrieked it in passionate
cries; they have seen from afar how gloriou,
true liberty might be, they have been cropping
toward it with eager hands; and to us they
deemed no gift could be so exceeding preciou,
as this type of our national glory. For them
the way to liberty has been one of fearful trial
the goddess has hidden her face so they coult
only guess ut her celestial features; now hal
| unveiled to them, they are learning what i,
best, and France shall yet be the grand repub
lie of Europe. ANNA $. Il.