Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-12-21
KerRnlIO Art,

William G. Prime, who is we'll kuown rs one
of the largest collectors of keramics 10 America
delivered lecture on the history of this art
Yesterday morning. The prevalent idea that
art is an aesthetic study, said MIR. Prime, ls un
true. Keramio art alone is a history OF the
human race and of nations; it begins so far back
that no one knows when the first bit OF clay
was made strong by Gre. For 1000 years tho
history of Egypt is recorded in pottery. 10
Mesopotamia we find bricks stamped with the
names of kings as far back as the building OF
the Pyramids. The art Of enameng was In
vented by the Egyptians, and learned from
them by the SyriaDs, who built walls and tow
ers of Pottery in Nnevch and Babylon which
we're covered with bright enamel. The use OF
pottery was Of the highest Importance 10 tue
Valley of the Euphrates. The books OF the
Syrian libraries we're made OF 1t. Tablets OF
| pottery were impressed with letters baked and
laid away on the shelves. Thirty thousand
volumes of these books we're found 10 ono lib
rary. Small sheets Of thes, pottery tablets
| were used for contracts Contemporary with
the Syrians were tho Ptoe 1icians of whose art
We knew nothing until the discoveries OF Gen. di
Cespola. This pottery, which ia now to be seen IN
the METROPOLITAN Museum, illustrates the prog
ress Of the history Of the Ph@olclans. greek
art. Mr.. Prime believes, cannot be traced back
more than eight centuries before Christ. The
nropress of this art is contained 10 the Metro
poIitan Museum and no where else. The Greeks
abolished the symbolic meanings OF the Egyp
tian art and adopted the beautiful Etruscan
natterps. which are always Greek and never
vera made BY the Etruscaos If you want to
teach YOUR children Greek literature you Gao
do it 10 better than by studying Greek keram:.
io art. The art of enamelliog pottery invented
by the Greeks seems to have been practioed in
the island of Rhodes, where many small speci'
mems of this enamolliog we're found. Many
reics ofthis art Of the thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries arc found in German public and PR
yate architecture Until the close OF the seven
teeuth century England did not understand e I. the
art of pottery. The history of pottery OF tcat
dav il closely allied with the history OF British
commerce. We have older specimens OF enam
elled pottery of Europe than Of China. The
onestion is, Did the Chinese invent porcelain,
~ aid It come from Western Asia MIR. Prime
does not believe that Palissy introduced the
art of enameug or porcelain toto Europe
The first porcelain came to Europe through tho
Arabs 10 the fourteenth century. The speol-
mems of the first porcelain made 10 Europe are
, verv rare. There are not more than few p'eoea
extant one of which is n the Castelanl col
lection in the Metropolitan Museum
mas, NoUR1snlNa BLooD.-The blood i'm
psrts to the body the elements which are essen e
t;si Hi to its existence When these sre Insult.
c;an,Iv supplied its energies begin to flag. there
ia loss of flesh, the muscles grow hsccld, the
reaective powers lose vigor-every function is
disturbed every organ weakened; Under these
circumstances it is obvious that the constitution
: must soon give way unless the vital fuld Is en-, ,
I;ched. 70 accomplish this object recourse r
should be had without delay to that grand Rtss fer
tzer of the blood, Hosteters Stomach a bl.aer; rd ::
which promotes assimilation Of the tHod lcS ana ans
means Of the a1ssh ooc aoi
active The COED ssIss ssn Gl Of fl bodily vsor
speeu,is !~u appn regular action of the various
menta enc Esssuts from its use the good work
OF body reform goes rapidly or and eventually
r baslth is established upon sure OASIS eoo'