The daily gazette., 1878-08-20

FROM our regular correspondent
PARIS, August 0, 1873.
The growing on the part of the exhib-
itors has diminished since the number of
prizes has b?en doubled by simply reduc-
ing the gold and silver medals ons-half
in size. Only two competitional exhlbi-
tion rewards are thus condemned to be
about as awe-respecting az French
baron, German count, or a diploma OBJ
tanned from university where the bursar
regulates the examinations. Scandina-
VIA has sent quite cloud of nightingales
to warble at the Trocadero, which they
do well, and above all, cheaply. The
men wear white caps, and are to be
found isolated in all quarters of Paris; so
far resembling the male nightingale q
whose characteristic is, according to
naturalisls, to rove. The Scandinavians
have this in common with the Saxon
race-they take their pleasure sadly. The
Il Ehnographical Society's meetings are
much followed, and the opening speech
by Senator Carnot son of Napoleon's
''organizer of Victories" treated more of
brains than of skulls. He thinks moderns
are behind Confucius in the art of
governing peoples whose maxim was
Glove them," but even in China, they
were only the philosophers who salaam-
ed this doctrine; the Hebrews he said In :
culcated, Glove your neighbors"-provid-
ed they were not your interiors nor i'm
pure. "Christianity, said Carnot, incul-
Gates love for humanity without excep-
ton, and practices it. The French " ere
sorely tried, when studying the skulls of
"Canagues" ami waxfigures of their
owner, AS fit and proper persous to be
endowed with Rousseau's rights of man
and Lamartine's Universal 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.
1t is impossible TO do Justice, even
cursorialy, TO the many specimensof sculp-
ture exhibited in the various sections of
the Exhibition, and it may be added, too
that 1t would be entirely uninteresting to
do 30. 10 the majority OF people, statu-
ary, at best, is a sealed book. 1t creates
no sensation when il is visibly before
them, and it would c rtalnly create less,
If 1t were possible, when simply describ-
ed by the feeble power of "a reporter
Nevertheless, it is the graudest, most
ancient, and most durahle of the arts
The works which delight the critic of to-
day and are believed to mark the golden
age of statury 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 sculptors. The mythology of the
country gave to their efforts an elevation
and purity of thought which in these
days cannot be conveyed to similar sub
jects however sklllfully manipulated.
Hence the tendency ofsculpture has been
to moderate, the severity of the anclen:
school and to create another in which
clothes should not be wholly disregard
ed. The toga imposed itself on the
thoughts and consciences of artists. Were
IL booted warrior with cooked hat
that had to be deposited he was found
clad in the garb of Roman Senator. An
absurdity SO conspicuous could not long
continue. A now school sprang up. Its
| aim was to call spade a spade. If top
boots and cooked hat We're wanted the
| disciples of that school were ready to
| supply them.
Nay of Achilles, himself in addition to
his one natural defect. had al>o had a
pimple on the top of his nose, they would
have ahghted upon 1t with enthusiasm
Exces of any kind naturally leads to
reaction, and reaction took place. But
various theories still remain. The pur.
| sints and the realists contend for the il
sepa ate ideas, and the able men on
either side prove how easy it is for both
to be right.
The French statuary, by its numbers
anu the variety of its styles and subjects
is considered the best.
The finest shawls are still made, as OF
yore,i in the beautiful valley of Cashmerr,
the Oriental Eden, which is shut by the
PERCEPTIONS mountains from all surround
ing countries. The Cashmerian Is indus
triouS, intelligent, and lively. 1t is only
in Cashmere that production is organized
| on principles nearly akin to the economi-
cal plan of Europe. The shawl is the
glory aud pride of the country, nearly
The entire population being engaged in
its production. The goats of Thibet,
from which tremendous sleeps separat, $
1t on the north, supply the silky wool
| which alone is used in the tissue; none
other can surpass, none has yet equalled
it in sottnesS. The downy substance
| found next the skin, and below the thi TX
hmr, is the part employed; il is of eX-
quisite tineness. SO jealous is the
Maharajah of Cashmere to maintain his
reputation, that he has recently taken
steps to prevent any deterioration III the
quality Of The shawls manufactured. The
lHdian display Of these ant cles is exceed
lngly fine, and of great value. Almost
every civilized country in the world pro
duces the article called lace the most diff
ticult ami del cate result of skilled labor
These are, however, only Two or three
countries that have given any original
Impulse to the trade. The Others have
simply followed in the trains of events,
taking what they have done as model
ana Initiating it to the best advantage
To the two nalions-Erance and Belgium
belongs the credit of pros cutting this
trade with yigJr.
The Ia Us OF Alencon and Brussels are
OF so complicated Il nature that ea h pro,
cess is assigned to IA different lace maker
who works only at her special depart
ment. Form rly IA piece Of Alencon lace
would pass through eighteen hands e
fore completion, that is now somewhat
Il minished, Nalenciennes lace Is also o
most elaborate workman hip; the pat
tern and ground are made together Will
the same thread on the same pillow.
a few years since, Paris enjoyed th'