Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-07-12
Paris Letter.


BY p1sr1NGrisHED ENGLISH ABTIsr-A
BUST OF BARONESS BUBpETT coU11s.
Especial Correspondence Of THE PHDsIx.l
PARIS, June 23d, 1878.
A visitor to the Exhibition, who has only
a'weeli to spend there. will find himself EN-
barrassed as to the sections he ought most
particularly to inspect Let him, unless he
has some special object connected with mill,
or farm. or haudcraft roam as much rs he
can in fresh fields and pastures new. Let
him 90 in the early days Of his visit to the
Fine Art Department which runs straight
through the centre of the building from the
Nestibue of Honor to the Ncstibuc of Man
ual Industry, parallel to the Military School
He will in his course get the best thoughts
and feelings of each nation that exhibits.
room hung round with historical tapestries is
the first in the way. It has to the right n
collection of theatrical accessories and scene
shifting appointments, and, to the left, dis
play Of coius and medals struck from the
French miIi They speak to Il reflective
mind Of the instability of royal and imperial
grandeur in this country We see medal Of
Josephine and Napoleon, Emperor and En-
press, and with Il date three years later, Of
Napoleon and Marie Louise. Another med
al represents the King of Rome with his
mother AS Empress regent: then Louis the
XVIII; Charles the X: Louis Philippe
then the Republic Of Is, with Libcrty, Equal
ity, and Fraternity, forming her escort fol-
lowed by medals bearing the profles Of Louis
Napoleon President. Of Louis Napoleon En-
peror. of Louis Napoleon and Eugene de
Montiio. and Of a baby who is now the CHS
lehurst Pretentler Theirs had no medal
struck TO celebrate the defeat Of the Com
nune. the successful negotiation Of his gi-
gantic loan. or the passing Of the constitu.
tion. McMahon. so far. has not given sit
ting to the artist Of the mint. The Marshal's
likeness however il in the next hall-"The
Saloon Of Historical Portrait, in Marble" IT
is fIattered but in the main true. That coarse
energetic brute. Pellissier. who had virtue
not TO take orders from the Empcror. in the
Crimea. is to the left. Clnrohert. the nth Of
December hero. is to the right. In the many
busts and statues tLat ur.dolniuate in this
hall. the reactionary energy of tha Fine Art
DEPARTMENT betrays itself The MARQUIS {.
who has il In charge. has not. however. had
the audacity to set up the images Of Louis
Napoleop and his wife. though they were
both very positive historical facts. To the
left of this hail there is n room where the
costumes of Provincial France are gathered
We leave it to enter the British Fine Art sec.
ton. comprising eight rooms, any one of
which is larger than the space allotted to
British art at philadelphia. These rooms
have comfortable seats. mats on the floors.
civil attendants. nnd.a railing round the room
ON which yisitors-and this is an immense
boon-can lean while studying pictures low
down. or when iottinQ down impressions in
their notebooks
Oil paintings stand Mt the head of the
eighty-fiye classes. The French, who are
honored as umpires in all questions of art,
think highly of the English school. which
does well when it follows nature, but very
badly when it follows British art traditions.
Eng lands greatest artist. NIillais, sends ten
pictures. The portrait of Mrs Bischodsheim
i, that of hard woman of the world. in Il
trundled-up Dolly Warden train Of brown silk
brocade. dotted over with co!ored bouquets.
and potticoat of warm tinge The colorinp
is pleasant. the subject not agreeable. In the
portraits of English ladies generally there i,
an absence OF that delightful thing. to ex.
press which must borrow French term, d
| Joaae qracs. Hearts are Trumps." repre-
| sents three grumpy Young women sitting in {
luxurious greenhouse PLAYING dummy whist
| They are tired. | suppose. of the tedious game
/
was told that they are the daughters of d
| knirhted manufacturer of artillery of heay,
cnlibre. The wealth of the world flows il
upon them and takes away their appetite for
the endowment Of ordinary and extraordnar,
pleasures. Their lilac silk dresses and piul
ribbons. the b3qle table at which they dra.
through their game, the ferns and other hot
house plants, are all faithfully aud ably done
A dominant quality Of Nillais is sincerity
He represents things as they strike him an,
his eve has great power to see and to discern
That prim old .Yeoman of the Guard" i
wonderfully well rendered. But it is not
picture for II small collection. The scnrle
color of the coat is too obtrusiye. The Sis
ters. another of Millais's pictures. lent by al
Fnolish gentleman. ar, GOOD. simple, ROSY
obosl,a5 r,llvlinn.J little Urls What
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Dre"'h Vi ireSn an i'oi'' Wv - 'i
that Scotch landscape 'Oef the hiils ana Ia
away" Crag, copse, moor and misty hill
in the distance. spanned by a rainbow. pre-
sent the finest combination of wild scenery
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Inc Northwest r"sSage' lue germs oi
epic poem are there. The old seaman, who's
parlor is done up like the cabin of a shiI
| will bova II thot mana lint the Fnplish will ey