, 1877-07-06

holding aloft a torch in one hand, and in
the other the sword which he has piucked
from the fell destroyer.
Two suggestive pictures are "Human
divisions Judged by Christ and "Politi-
cal parties according to Christ In the
first the Saviour stands weeping while
the political, social and ecclesiastical
powers are engaged in fierce conflict.
The latter shows the three powers united
and rejoicing that the fetters of bigotry
and prejudice have been broken. The
various religious sects and political par
ties might study with advantage this
pair of pictures.
Mons. WiertZ has resOTted to various
methods to give effect to his paintings.
He tried all lights for his pictures ere
placing them. Sometimes he has had
screens thrown before them so that you
are compelled to take a certain position
in order to view them; then they break
upon you with stereoscopic effect. Such
is the case with the Concierge" and
With the "Curieuse." The latter quite
deceives one. heard a lady say to an
other, "Whois that lady peeping through
the door in the cOrnerl" She evidently
knew not that it was a painting. Then
there are pictures seen only through
small apertures. Such is that of "a man
buried alive" You peer into gloomy
sepulchre and see man who has been
buried alive, by some mistake, who has
awakened from his trance, has just burst
open the coffin lid and is stretching out
his hand in horror, grasping for some
evidence that he is not dreaming. On
the rough deal coffin are the words, "Died
from cholera, certified by the Doctors" }"
Another is rather amusing than repulsive.
Overhead is picture of Hugo's Hunch-
back of Notre Dame. He is represented
as very ugly, with unkempt red hair and
rough crimson garb. Looking through
hole, into which the face exactly fits,
the same figure is seen, with the same
rough red garb and shaggy hair, but the
features are seen to be those of the OBJ
server. However beautiful the face of
the gazer it is made to look ghsstly by
these surroundings. watched several go,
and having made out that the features on
the picture were their own, they FASTENED
away with downcast expression. One
lady even uttered a slight shrek when
she found how she had been entrapped.
But the aim of the artist by this peculiar,
but perhaps not very artistic means, is To
lead people to see that they, by accident
or training, or consent to wilful indulg-
ence, might have been, or might become,
like the ugly being from whom they
shrunk. Perhaps, also, he meant to
teach that sin can make US as revolving
as the character whose appearance is SD
loathsome. A very suggestive picture
indeed is another of beautiful girl
named Rosina, who, while yet in the
flush OF youthful strength, is represented
as gazing at a skeleton. She has found
it all dry and ghastly, hanging in the
study of some medical man. She is evil
IDENTIFY shocked at the sight, and the
more so that she makes out the name
with which the skeleton Is labelled is
"Rosina." The expression on her face,
at the discovery of future possibility
awaiting herself, it would be beyond me
to describe. Still moral lesson, like to
that where Hamlet soliloquizes over the
skull of Yodek, is taught. "Where be
your gibes nowl Your gambols9 your
sOngsG your flashes of merrimen. that
we're wont to set the table in rosr9 Not
one now, to mock your own jeerings2
quite chop-falIen7 Now, get you to my
lady's chamber and tell her, let her paint
an inch thick, to this favour she must
come at last; make her laugh at that"
Such canvass sermons are fitly preached
in the gay city of Brussels, and may, not
unprottably, be thought over by other
than the BeIgians. "Vanity, vanity, all
is vanity" without piety, liberty, light
and love.-POrtlGnd Transcript.