New-York tribune., 1880-09-26

come IaSt 10 unUcTStIDu t'l:i, ihe
thing Is not mere height or symmetry hol mus
cular development dignity OF port bit tha' ''s'
pnrely exterior advantages may he satisfactorily
and even advantageously replaced by a'i ih'e,i'"
illumination of. suppose, a spiritual nature MI
ing it's posse ssor quite above iesly Considerations
This it is which makes the dwarf and the giant Oh
eoual height. and imparts to the dumpiest Gaui not
olways perhaps visible statcliness of movement
put serene assurance that he is an object OF UNI
yersal admiration which seems to answer HIS pun
pose equally we'll The proportions of Anfinous are
not always to he seen. bnt who shall say that tney
arc not happily replaced by the compacency oi Mar
cissusl And if the beach at Deppe be not the oest
possible place for sculptor TO set up his sthIo'
is certain that the student Of human nature Will DC
rewarded for all the time he spends there.
THE OPERA AND DRAMA Al Di%PPE.
Bathing goes on all day or at any hour OF the
day when weather and tide permit, and upon sun
DAYS The fashionable set bathes in the morning
and does not reappear at the Casino for any purpose
till evening. The dense throng which during the
afternoon sits on straw -bottOmed chairs undcr thc
long awning next the beach. in 50 far as II Is not
foreign, is bourgeois; good deal OF IL even
Dieppois. If you take walk through the to"h
early or late in the aftern bon. You will meet many
a girl or woman of Dieppe in her smartest clothes
a very small shop, possibly enough. Needlework.
gossip. watching the bathers and promenaders-
these seem TO be the chief amusements of this after
noon company. For the evening concert or ball or
theatre, those select people reappcar. but the un-
written law which compels lady who dances at
all in a public room to dance with anybody who
chances to ask her. must restrict the attendance OF
the more exclusive circles. The orchestra Is, am
told an excellent one and capable of disconrsing
something besides dance music; does IN TACT per-
form classical pieces at its concerts AS Tor the
theatrical company not much good can be said OF
il. The Casino Theatre was devoted to opera
boufle: thrice week it was possible to hear badly
given the latest and eebest works of the iustrons
Onenbach which one had hearl well done in Paris
The only break to this monotony of dulness was
on Thursday last. when the two CoquelIns gave
readings and with the help of Mile. Blanca. OF the
Theatre Francais. short modern piece ana a scene
from the Marriage Force of Molerc. don't wish to
excite premature hopes among my felow-citIzens or
70 rufle the delicate temper OF NJ Emile Perrin but
NAV say that visit to America by the Messieurs
Coouelin is among the possibilities OF a not very re-
mote future. The younger Coquen is an excellent
and amusing artist: the elder is comedian OF sucD
extraordinary range of talent and variety of ac-
coInplishncnt as has not of late years been seen
among French actors. With Got he is now the
mainstay of the Theatre Francais and NJ. Perrin
should he remain director of that establishments
will probably be led to understand that he cannot
afford to drive away of his two best remaining
artists; even though that artist should desire to
Journey so far as the United States
PARTING REMISIsCENCEs.
And with this | mnst quit Dicppe, though have
left untouched most of the points on which meant
to write, and though | am perfectly aware that
nothing have said will account for the fascination
the place exercises upon those who stay here long
enough or come often enough to know 1t well. The
town itself is full of interest for those especially
to whom the ways of life in a French town of the
smaller kind are novel. On the night l came, had
room on the street-that very same Rue de
rAncienne Poissonerie with which | first made
acauantance fourteen years ago-wth its ivory
shops ont of the windows of which not a fan nor
a crucifx nor a paper knife appears to have been
sold and its pastry cooks whose excellent cakes
and the maker OF the same have vanished together,
more's the pit Y. though the bigger shops in the
Grand Rue still do lourislling trade. The same
aundress pours her soap suds out OF the same front
door INTO the same gutter running down the middle
of the Same, street, with the same full stream.
There was positive charm in being walked next
III morning as of old by the clatter OF sabots on the
stone flags of this dingy thoroughfare. There was
greater in renewing friendships with the interior
of the old CASTLE and recommending the old walks
along the cliffs Rebuild the Palisades on the Hud-
son with white marble and you will have an idea
of the cliffs Of Dieppe-they have the same sheer
plunge out of mid-air down TO the water. You NAV
drop pebble anywhere from the top, and it falls
straight into the sea-two hundred. three hundred,
| know not how many hundred feet below. To
right and left as far as you can see these battle
pents lift their shining fronts against sea and sky
The moan of the Atlantic comes family to the
summit the green fields rush their verdure to the
brink of the precIpice, and down the cliffs in its
steep Sides and the cattle browse in sharp outline
at the angle where the summers heritage ends and
the primeval chalk begins. Inland lies the ruined
Chateau dArques beneath whose walls Henry ~.
fought q battle. and the Foret dArques. n wood
p,erced in every direction by roads and paths vet
so vast that you NAV lose yourself in mysterious
depths far from the sound of wheels and out of
reach Of pcnics. though never beyond the ken of
the forester for this like most woods in Europe. is
scientifically cultivated and cut, and yigilantly
watched. The drives beyond the limits OF the
forest in tho deep-set Norman lanes. with dense
shade from hedges which overtop your horses
head. and ranges of tall popars. not less deli
cons You find them wherever you go. The
country is not garden like Kent Sussex, but it
broken, various, lull OF picturesque Deduty anu
of a character which never becomes commonplace
ms it becomes familiar. Dieppe ITSELF it is open to
YOU to like or dislike but the environs of 1t have
never been Overpraised. and he who does not care
for them must be of Dr. Johnson's mind about rural
loveliness knew these drives well many years
ago. but with only fortnight to spend by the
have hardly once been out of sight and sound of
the SURF and am as reluctant to quit it now as if
had come Yesterday. CIV s.
AT THE HOME RESORTS.