New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-11
TIE RESIGNATION OF MR.. WELSH.

TIE RESIGNATION OF MR.. WELSH
! REGRET fXrBEssED N LONDDN 81 THE AMERICAN
MINISTER'S RETIREMENT-MR. EyARTs naked
| or As Ills SUCCEssoR-Mg. sTEDMAE VISITING
Mr.. sWINBUaSE-IHE ARTISTS DORE, BRAGGER
| AND LyPAGE.
| FROM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT Ov rHE TRIBUNE
! LONDON July 29-ihe resignation Of Mr.. Welsh
was announced yesterday in tie leading Liberal
! Journal of England, in large type, and with re-
greet IA form of words which, in this case ex-
presses a sincere feeling. :" Mr.. Welsh will carry
away with hlm," says this journal. the cordial
! gard ard respect of MI in England with whom he
has been brought into social and official relations"
1t Is pleasure to be able 10 quote this authoritative
| confirmation Of the opinion I lately expressed
Since my letter was written have met many Eng
| lishmen to whom the fact of 1lr. Wclsl's retire
ment had become known. They we're unanimous in
depIonng it, and in their expressions Of esteem and
| goodwill Tor the departing Minister. Twcny-four
| hours later than the announcement in The Daily
AclCs, comes q telegram from America 20 the morn
ing papers to the effect that Mr.. Wels's resignation
has been made public in Washington, Nothing is
said as to his successor. There was a rumOr that
! Mr.. Evarts might be the man but that, suppose
is too good to be true. II he tired Of the State
! Department and cares for the post here. he would
| have the hearsicst Of welcomes. Few Americans
are well known in England personally or by
reputation. The English bear him malice
! for his victory at Geneva, end they would
rejoice in the coming OF a diplomatst whose
| fame talker has preceded him. The
/ meu who can talk, the men with whom con-
yersaion not lost art passing away, or grow
! ing old Mr.. Hayward, Mr. Kinglake, Mr.. Bright
| the Lord Chef-Justice, NJ. Bernal Osborne Mr.
! Gladstone, LorI Granville. Mr.. Browning are none
of them in the flower Of youth. Lord Beacousfeld
] sir
! Ilarcourt is a brilliant exception TO the mediocriy
OF an average diuncr-tablc in the more purely
fashionable world, and some Others might be
named, When you enter the literary circles or
circles in which men of letters of science and of art
minglc there IL no lack Of conversation Of a very
! high order But Nr. Eyarts would find himself the
centre of an admlrnR company if he would but
make MP his mind to be Minister.
lIr. Sicdman has been paying visit to Nr. SWIM
! buIne at H3lmewood, by Alr. Swinburae's oft-re-
/ peated Invlt1ion. The two poets have many sym
| pathlcs in common. If their friendship does not
quite answer 10 Cccros definition, of wishing and
not wishing the same things, they have the tic
which springs from a common devotion to art. and
a common belief that art may be critical as well as
creative. They are both poets and both critics Of
poetry. Thoy have both written admirable POEMS
and Nr Stednau has written a criticism Of Mr.
thinks admirable, as do the rest of Us, who
are more dsiutcrcsted. 1t is, so far / know,
the most elaborate and complete review which can
be found in English literature on this subject Mr.
Stedman reports his friend rs in tolcrably good
health. Homcwood is one OF those delightful Eng
lish country whchhdy no parallel out ofEng
land line place has belonged 10 successive genera
lions of Sguburne-; lastly TO the Admiral, who
was the poets father. Uuhapply it is shortly to
pass out OF his possession, anu with 1t VIII depart
Il may be feared, that excellent Old butler who
takes such fatherly care OF the hayward son, and
whorespccts the boy, not because he is a gem
ius. but because lie is Swinburne. 4
new poem, / hear may shortly be expected-is,
at any rate, nearly finished and comprises already
some 400 lines, aud Is a kind of tribute to one of
Swinburnc's ancestors much older than any Swim
burne She never heard OF HQlmewood, nor had
butler but she has been pas5onatcy admired for
many centuries and her name was Sappho. Mr.. Stcd-
man leaves London this week for Paris-not at all
because he is tired of London, or London OF him,
but because be Is a good American, and cannot re-
turn home without doing his pilgrimage to the
American capital Of Europe.
An American artist, MT. BrIggcr, has lately conf
plced portrait Of llr. Eugene Schuyler, which Is
now on view at Messrs. AgueWs gallery IN Bond
ST. II Is good likeness, and the painting is OF a
quality both good in itself and fu OK promise Inc
Ino,.,,ng OF the face Is especially line, and II the
flesh tnts leave something 10 be desired, that is only
saving that Mr. Bragger is still young man-not
over twenty three, / believe. Tie has, what few
GOOD London painters have, the art of portraiture
in the sense of producing resemblance. Mr. Schuy-
er face is familiar in London and this picture has
done something to make Mr. Bragger known. The
Arnews who can do much for an artist seem to take
an interest in his work. and he probably has before
him a London career.
The French colony which settled over here for
time with the ComGlIe Francaisc left delegate or
two behind when the great body OF It's members
returned TO their longed-for Paris. NJ. Gustaye
Dor6 is one of those who find London enduraDle'
and who still linger. His reputation Is so much
greater here than ia Paris that he ought, Ill COM
mon gratitude, to like London. The D0re gallery
in Boud-st is open, / believe, all the year
! through, and steady stream OF English
| and Americans pours through 1t, leaving
considerable deposit Of gold. Such a phe-
| nomeuon cannot be witnessed in the artists own
city, where his passion for vast caRvases and iurld
bue, Is lightly laughed at by the critics, who never
| tbeless sneak with respect Of his power a.
! draughtsman aud his force OF Imagination NO
| American fails to visit the Dore gallery mere. he-
| minding NJ Dor6 how popular he was III the Ihltou
| States asked him if he did not mean to 90 there
| some day Bu; he said no. Ii was COO taf' the Foy-
age WA. too long. II would take linn away from his
| art-in a word he will not co.
NJ Bastien Lepage is another Frenchman VINO mas
spent some time in London, and has but Lately gone
! home If his name be not already familiar to YOU
| it will surely become Among tie more youth
fol French painters it is NJ. Basuen Lcpage VINO has
of late come most rapidly to she front. guess MN
TO be. at most, twentysix or seven years Old NOT
long since Mr. Brown Of Kalamazoo, might nave
had his portrait painted By NJ Lepage FOR oUo
| francs. Mr.. Brown is very sorry he missed me
onnc. for I'M. lnnsL now pay 10000. or thereaDout.