The daily gazette., 1878-07-25
OUR PARIS LETTER.

| TROCADERo-PoRTUGAL
ABOUT ITS HISTORY ART AND
INDUSTRY AS UGGEsTED
HERE-THE FRENCH PRO-
HIBIT sKETCHING AND
MAKING NOTES IN
THEIR DE-
PARTMENT
! (From our Regular Correspondent
PARIS, July 8, 1878.
Much interest now centres in the Re
Prospective Exhibition at the Trocadero
and to-day we will visit it to make brief
examination of the antique and mediaval
displays OF Portugal, before we pass to
the detached and interesting showers
facing the hill opposite the Champ de
Mars. In Portugal we have a people
whose history is grea er than their map.
1t was one of the most glorious of the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. There
are before us memorials of its great poets
OF its bold navigators, of its ventursome
conquestodors, its cbivalrous heroes, and
enlightened princes ofthe olden time.-
The eclipse came with the domination of
Philip H., of the House Of Austria, which
was elected by revolutionary movement
In the time of Comwell. Dom Pedro of
Brazil is the heir, according to the spirit
OF those princes, and he Is a splendid liv-
ing illustration of the Atrist theory qua!-
tiles OF the race which had given it pecu-
liar lustre, after lying cryptic for ages re
appeared in him, and in tropical atmo-
sphere not propitious to mental or m oral
vigor. On the missal of one of these Por-
tuguese princes, a contemporary ofHenry
the VIII, we find brought into the orna-
mentation of the borderers, mathemati-
cal Instruments, charts and nautical ap-
pliances. In the cathedral of Coimbra, /
am told that statues of men distinguish
| ell in literature, science, and stateman-
shi p are fitted in the inches. Portugalis is
in the path Of steady progress. Her
primary schools are as good as those of
any other European people the maps
| executed by her pupils are very merito-
rous. In this collection is a bed made by
a Lisbon arts an and decorated by Il Q PEN
| Gil of Rapheal, its estimated value is
| 800, 900 fr. but it is not for sale. Here also
| is a desk veneered with sandal wood, it
il unique in its kind, and at the fall of
Morocco, IN 1911, was taken out of the
| palace of Mulay Mahomed, by Nuno Voz
de Castillo, Spanish Knight in the Por-
tuguese service. From a desk of this
shape and highth, long legged stools, and
| literary habits, are to be inferred. Next
let us glance at the elegantly shaped
faience vessels, the rich old Indian car
pets, and shawls sent from Portuguese
merchants at Goa to lady chape in their
| "a iax alo
worn by sister of the Emperor Charles
the fifth Genoa may have borrowed her
manufacture of filigree ornaments from
| Lisbon.
In the Spanish, Portuguese, Egyptian
and other foreign exhibitions of retro
spective industrial art, visitors are allow
ed to make sketches in their note books.
They have not the saIne liberty in the
| French sections. There is a strict rule
forbi dding them to reproduce what they
see in any manner or form, and pains are
taken to keep out those persons who ap-
pear to have serious or absorbing work
to attend to. 1t is to be regretted that
NJ. Krantz, who has charge of this de-
parument, should have allowed the noble
eXhi to make their own terms. The
market value of most of the things in
the left wing of the Trocadero has been
enhanced by admission to it. The public
paws for the building in which they are
lie shall reap no benefit from the outlay.
Twenty-Five visitors at a time are admit
ted, and only from noon until O'Clock.
Among the isolated buildings on the Tro-
cadero side of the Seine we find an AL
gerian and Funision palace, a Japanese
peasants house and garden, Chinese
bazaar and wealthy merchants resi-
dence, a Norwegian country residence,
built of wood, pattern of excellent car
Ipentry, the Anthropological Museum,
showing how the human skull has devel-
oped since the age of stone, and the pa
vilion of the Shah of Persia. There are
in the Anthropological collection skulls
and facial casts of some of the worst
| criminals that have been condemned to
death since Gall and Spurzheim excited
an interest in phrenology, and also OF
such distinguished personages as Scott
Priestly, Helmboldt and Lamartine
When looking at the narrow, villainous
heads of the former it is difficult to avoid
the impression that they were fatally i'm.
prlled to yield to temptation.
Scott could no more have helped en-.
riching the literature of his country than
the rose bush can avoid blooming when
planted IN favorable soil. This, 1t will
be said, is discovery after the fact, but
the doctrine Is very generally acknow-
lodged to-day, that much is best in our
selves we owe to our ancestors, and since
we derive our evil instincts from them
too, we should be humble even in the
climax of success, and be pitiful towards
those who fill our prisons. 1t is past
gene rations that have made us what we
are, hut we can improve their work un
: der the pressure of high moral stim ulants,
| and tav vorable religious influences.
The Shah's pavilion is palace of mir
rors. The roof in glass stalactites reflects
powerfully the light. 1t is a cross-fire OF
rainbows; one million Of pieces of quick.
sllvered glass cut into facets line the
walls. The colors of the carpets and cur
tains are reflected in them along with the
refractions of the prismatic hues. Sofas
and chairs are covered with shawl stuffs
of many colored tints, like unto, one
may suppose, the coat of Joseph. The
eye speedily tires of this iridescent cham
ber, in which the visitors face is multi.
piled dd irsfnitum. One must be fash
ionable beauty, or as vain as Gen. Banks,
to enjoy seeing ones face multiplied a
million fold in small room. G. A. S.
The Deprecated silver Dollar.
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