New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-08-28
OUR PARIS LETTER.


DIES ADMIfaE--SHAWLS AND LACEs.
FRENCH FURNTTURF-A STRIKE
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS A DAY
EOR BOARD!
(From our regular correspondent
PARIS, August 9th, 1873.
The growing on the part Of the
exhibitors has diminished, since the
number Of prizes has been doubled
by simply reducing the gold and sill
Aer medals one-half in size. Only
2 competitors thus exist for cham
pion honor. International exhibit
ton rewards are thus condemned to
be about as awe-respecting as a
French baron, a German count, or
a diploma obtained from a university
where the blysay regulates the ex-
aminations. Scandinavia has sent
quite a cloud Of nightingales to
MARBLE at the Trocaders, which they
do well, and above all, cheaply. The
men wear white caps, and are to be
found isolated i'll all quarters ofP aris:
as far resembling the male niehtin-
gale, whose characteristic is, accord
ing to naturalists, to rove. The
Scandinavians have this in common
with the Saxon race-they take their
pleasure sadly. The Photographed
Society's meetings are much follow
ed, and the opening speech by Sena-
tor Cavnot son Of Napoleon's COR
ganizer Of Victories treated more
,of brains than Of skulls. He thinks
moderns are behind Confucius in the
art ofgoverning peoples, whose max
i'm was, Glove them;'' but even in
China, they were only the philoso-
pliers who salaamed this doctrine:
the Hebrews he said inculcated,
Glove your neighbors' provided
they were not your interiors nor i'm
pure, ''Christianity, said Cavnot, in
culcates love for humanity without
exception, and practises it. The
French were sorely tried, when study
ing the skulls Of ."Canagues' and
waxfigures of their owners, as fl and
proper persons to be endowed with
Rousseau's rights of man, and Lam
artlne'sUniversal suffrage vote; they
are the aboriginals Of New Caledo-
MIA, who have just massacred and
eaten some soldiers and communists
IN training to cease to do evil, and
learning to do well.
It is impossible to do Justice, even
cursorily, to the many specimens of
sculpture exhibited in the various
sections of theexhibition, and it may
be added, too that it would be I'M
interesting to do so. To the MAORI
ty of people, statuary at best, is a
sealed book. It creates no sensation
when it is visibly before them, and
1t would certainly create less, if it
were possible, when simply described
by the feeble power Of reporter.
Nevertheless, it is the grandest, most
ancient, and most durable Of the
arts. The works which delight the
critic of to day and are believed to
mark the golden age Of statuary date
their origin many centuries before
the Christian era. The full beauty
of the human form has never been
so accurately described as by the
Greek sculpture. The mythology Of
the country gave to their efforts an
elevation and purity of thought
which in these days cannot be con-
veyed to similar subjects however
skillfully manipulated. Hence the
tendency Of sculpture has been mo-
derate, the severity of the ancient
school and to create another in
which clothes should not be wholly
disregarded. The toga imposed it.
self ON the the thoughts and consci-
Senees of artists. Were it booted
warrior with cooked hat that had
to be depicted he was found clad in
the garb Of a Roman senator. An
absurdity so conspicuous could not
long continue. A new school sprang
up. Its aim was to call aspade aspade
Ii tote boots and a cooked hat were
wanted the diciples Of that school
were ready to supply them. Nay if
Achilles, himself, in addition to his
one natural defect, had also had a
plmple on the top of his nose, they
would have alighted upon it with en-
thusiasm.
Excess Of any kind naturally leads
to reaction, and areaction took place.