New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-28
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW.

| Mr.. Gladstone i the sulJtcu vi d N'li-"'i'
ten paper by Clement HUGH Hill, WHO presents care"
! fn analysis Of the qualities which have gwen tue
iusfrious statesman conspicuous "a pace III the
society and politics Of England The Writer NOTICES '"'
rciuirEab fact ia Mr. Giadstoncs mental CONSTITUTIONS
| taat. Ike BurGc and Rcmilly, Richard '""l'h "'"
/ Caalica sumner lie has mite or no sense "' ""Il''
There is 40 SIGN o. th- feature either III hls speeches
~ writings Tie lack Of lh. quality often prevents ms
.cc,u. the DIN, proportion of things and events lh'
! intense c.racsfhcss oil lis nature DIVES W OF
! lis head everything bat the great cause ~
hand. aul me dwe.is upon ii win profound "7r'E""
o. TIE pI0i liees oi time aud occaso1 TINS earnest
ness and energy oiicn leads him {" ncisciei"n- III
..-,r,-,es ap...r. as If he were thutins aloud ai'
b. OF tllau-4s which 10 would be wiser 'o conceal
H. taics zoo seriously small matters that are scarcely
vort,y OF attention. ana is so mach absorbed with
craycr subjects as 10 uo-rci the amenities OF per '""
/ intercourse wh.ca are important IN public LIE.
"Thc revolutionary Movement ~ Russia Il oscl'''"
III, CAM Bira who Shin Ks fhai the rC-mc 81 absoluti,m
In that con frs already shows The llppoo,duc lace.
and is rapidly approaching, its final death uro'' " u
tue That the battle ti RACES. asa that ihns Ia CAR
dom has the upper land. Bus let RUSSIA he eI3'a'd J"
some acw Wal IN whch tLe army Should lose great
| battle. Alexander H. wou1 certainly be de-
ii.v,d OF his dsuoc privileges as Napoleon
III after Sedan was Of Lie crown Ih""4' n''
captured by thc en- my. tine Auocrat would ~ ONCE oc
made % prisoner among his own people Ev'u without
A war; without q great defeat on Tie baiichrd' % IS
not pro Die that tie Ru~ IAN Government can long Zoe
maintained on ITS present unstable basis collapse" OF
a capitUiati0a seems inevitable.
william Norris Hunt anl.d- the subject Of slaeu-
aIly interesting paper by Sarah W. Wd.'msn, "Loteai7
the great American artist with profound "WIec"lio"
though vita q sense OF inadcQu2cy 10 iuy interpret
the high and subtitle spirit. which amid all t'e
complexities Of life was animated by the sin-
Gle purpose Of supreme devotion 10 Ant In
all Tie intervals 81 college lie Hunt mad prdctistd
in pencil and clay and when ri tie axe OF nineteen
his health being very delicate. {, was decl'ed That he
should to Europe hc did not wait long before thro"
ing himself into studio life aud labor. After Few
no s spont in seciug those treasures ~ the Old world
which serve revelation aud inspiration 10 tire
young American. he maize arrangements 10 begin WORK
with Nr. Brown, then sculptor IA Rome, finding slih
great fascination iu the pursuit of plastic art IL was
here that he modelled his Restoration ~ Tho Psyche 20
Naples together with several portrait hust-; ana after
a Winter spent thus he went 20 Dusseldorf anu csia'
1shc himself there, that he gh stu y drawing Tor
some years though ftl with tie intention 81 pursui
scupturc. TLc.e years OF serious Labor had the
value which belongs TO steady work done IN
the Schools though Le suffered 10 being remote
from scenes where ms taste and his sympa'hies
would have been more stimulated IL cordially dsiihcl
the method Of painting as taught ~ the classes OF bu-
,e'lorf and gave himself almost wholly % tudy 80
black ana white with especial devotion 10 acquiring
kuovlcdc Of tlc human figure. Later, In 1916 ~ iai
nim In Pari. IN atccr o. ". Pradicr, sculptor Who
had lust made the beautiful sitting figure o. 'oicre
tlac.d n the IN, Ricnclleu. But among tIc airs.
ngtutiug at last demanded hi, allegiance too
strongly to D; resisted; n Saw IN The French
studios work which compelled his admiration
his most intense sympathy, and he htchnt
n student III the French schooL' Nr. hun's
| experience painter upon hS return
fron Europe l. yiyidy described IN few delicious
paraeraphs s. far the aitli'c 81 Hunt had been
lived abroad with the EXCEPTION 81 short VISITS made
to America he Lad been absent since tie age 81 nine"
teen and decided that the lime had come for h- re-
turn 70 tie couutry OF his brth and ~ MA anecton'
This WAS IN 1853; aud with this date We cntcr upon
new phase Of existence for HIM, for he was now 10
work in an air somewhat dry and difficult Twenty
! five years ago there was less atmosphere in this
country aesthetic n not physical than IL now easy 20
believe; and except for Few VINO hdn clt the move
ment OF the impulse, dun, conventional or COM
| morplace demand for artistic platitulcs pcrvddcd
society. But while the sensitive nature Of Hunt made
him shrink from cncouncrnS so much that was dc.
messing ne had The other hand, the qualities Of an
Amorcan-cuuragc and even enterprise together with
an unnacgIng hope aud the most generous spirit He
came home and establishing himself ~ Newport. Il. l.,
began that life Of ardent industrious labor which with
the exception or years in Europe In lsGG'j7. wa
upbrgkcn 10 the end As would readily be supposed. the
largest demands upon hl' brush Hrst lay III
the direction Of portrait painting, and he
soon executing works which gave proof OF tho
gifts he had brought TO tho consideration o.
this great fed OF Rightly TO render tbs noble
! presence OF "a nobo human beng had IT'S inspiration
for The pa endowed with Imagination. who alone
could inform the plain face or the prossc Surroundings
with mat character which mpIrts beauty beyond
Grace aud he gave himself 10 the study with dcyo-
tion II portraits marked not Only by thclt char
acter but also b. beauty Of composition, and by that
| final and most indescrbIhlo at'ronie called yic"
Mr. Hunts residence in Boston w1s O. most fruitful
portion OF hIs hic mparjns fresh impulse 10 facul
| q al
mir.rs who compI;hencd ana cherished the gifts OF
his genius Al the urgent wish OF lis friends and feel
inc tna residence III Boston would for wider
living liant removed thher I'm 1852; and from this
| tilae may be traced the ever Increasing Influence
which his life and work cDub.led exert.
/ He touched vcry nearly all classes Of people
for Le VIVA tho caycst and sweetest OF demo
eraa; ling friends every turn IN the road giving
the very strceiswccper sense OF sympathy and cxhil
araton as he passed to delight assemblies Of cult
waited people with his wit or his philosophy Few who
have ever listened to his brilliant, pqnant talk. 10
the play OF his enchanting humor can forget how his
words illuminated every subject that he touched how
new and fresh a meaning &c gave to the principles which
| underlIe our existence, how deep significance TO
| beauty how central pace to truth Animated
! By a great sincerity. william Hunt regarded
| a sham as something dctcstablc- ho loahed
its existence; that preicnious form Of falsty
by virtue OF whic and women In society repeat set
phrases OF sounding words, profess enjoyment "
what they neither love nor understand, ncd him with
indignation which often took shape ia burning words.
in impotence which fierce even to injustice. On
the ether hand he deeply moved by every earnest
endeayor and, with the instincts OF supremacy gencT
GUS nature gave OF his best 30 all who askei OF him"
| Among tho other articles In this number are " Tho
| Letters OF Eugene Deacrox," by Henry James jr. ::
"Tne Gothenburg Liquor License system by C. G. An
| drews; " The Ur1uometra Argentine" OF ID Could 10y
Edward T. Holden; sun Spot Cycles and Epidcmcs."
| by Ernest W. Cushing: Tammany Hail." by Van
| Buren, Denslow ord Contemporary Literature"