New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-30
PARTISAN TOPICS.
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| fppoM THE REGULAR coRREsPoNDENT'oF THE TRBUNE.l
| PARIS, May lathe Crown Princess OF Germany
il ut length on her way back to Germany She DeaIS
| the traces of an ardent Italian sun on her COM
plex,on. which she never seeks to protect when she
Is in the open air. Isaw her yesterday IN the Salon.
She was in the room of non-competinR artists ana
looking at the portrait Of child In red by Carolus
| Duran. notebook was in her hand. The iuture
Empress might have passed for the lady correspond
ent of daily paper, and so hurried in seeking out
| and transmitting news as to have htue VI
| no time for personal adornment. She Is
| plain. but very pleasing middle-aged lady, her
round face beams with kindness and with intellect'
OF all the Queen of Englands children, she has tne
| hest forehead. There are lines of care in the face
which used to be joyous and garconnet-" boylSh
will not give the idea expressed in the French word
| now make use of. At the corners the mouth Is
drawn down-a sure sign Of a persistent feeling OF
disappointment. Bismarck is permanent thorn IN
the side of the Princess whose just sentiments are
outraged by his blood-and-ron policy. She VIII
not believe that Divine blessing rest ON sys-
tenn based on violence and n cynical disregard OF
Justice and she too often plays at the Court OF Ber
lin the thankess part of q Cassandra.
Bismarck mortaly offended her by saying, when
her son Waldemar died, that he 1.-THE CHANCELLOR
had always been against the marriage OF the crown
Prince with daughter of Queen Victoria, because
he knew the unhealthy blood of the English royal
family would spoil the magnificent HohenZollern
race. Prince Waldemar had bad constitution
and scrofulous affection. The daughters of the
Crown Princess are handsome, healthy and finely
grown. Princess Charlotte, the eldest, who Is mar
red to the hereditary Duke of Saxe-MeiniDgen, Is
very fine woman, graceful, sweet-mannered and ac-
compshed, as her mothers daughter should be.
But the sons want muscular fibre. and take after
their mothers side of the house. Prince Henry was
sent to make voyage round the world, which 1t
was hoped would give him physical tone.
The Crown Princess returns to Berlin to make
preparation for the wedding of her eldest son with
the Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Hol-
stein-G ucksburg- Augustenburg. The fancee is a
GRANDDAUGHTER of the Queen of Engand's stepsster
and companion of her childhood and girlhOOd the
late Princess Feodore of Hohenohe niece of Count
Gleichen the sculptor, and great.niece OF Prince
Hohenlohe the German Ambassador to the French
Republic. Sine is free from what Bismarck calls the
House of Brunswick faint for which he fervently
thanks God.
The Crown Princess has assumed the title of
Countess Won Lingen, and preserves strict incog-
nito. She is accompanied by her younger children,
one of whom is destined to the italian crown
supposing that royalty exists in Italy until she is
| quito grown up.
FRENCH CHILDREN AT THE SALON.
The Crown Princess of Germany excels as por-
traitist of children. She is in thorough sympathy
with childhood In the Salon she pays great
attention to those works devoted to infancy, tho
most prominent of these, but not the best, is the
Red Boy of NJ. Carolus Duran. In point of techni-
cal excellence few pictures are above this One But
there the amateur of cultivated taste must cease TO
| admire it, The Red Boy is not painting for gall
lery No delicate tone can be perceived i'll its neigh
borhood. Who would think of looking, or could
lnolr Of furt1e-dova when n namiupO was lar1bV
| The Red Boy is not happy little fellow He is
| a "muf" In germ No Juvenile bora to
wear the trousers could enjoy himself dressed up in
such fine clothing. The Red Boy is drawing-roOm
boy-the son probably Of rich Jewess and Fau-
bourg St. German nobleman-and he will not even
taste the pleasure of those harbTeadth adventures
which form English and American youngsters for q
career of bold enterprise His head is we'll coOred,
and the youth lives An active brain speaks through
his dark eyes, But he is a selfish, stuck.up, good
| for-nothing monkey, and when no grows up he will
| swell the ranks of the Jeunesse dOree. His scarlet
clothing is an injustice to all the pictures near him.
If there are peoples in field you cannot see at
first glance any other vegetation.
| Iprefer In the way of staringly dressed children
| MISS Guiemet" by Doucet. She is eight or nine
years DID, and attired in fanciful and fashionable
manner, just sees thecbildren of rich parents
| on the sands of Trouyile. But waves do not play
|
carry the eye on to her crimson velvet robe with
fur border, and thence to russell beaver hat with
| rich red feather Miss Gullemet" leans on q
| couch on which mantle lined with Siberian sables
is thrown, and her feet sink in the skin of wild
! animal, serving as carpet. The furs are Won
| drousIy manipulated. The girl herself is inter
esting, although she Is O little cOquette and SUI
| premely happy in her gorgeous outfit and sur
| rOundings. French damsels of Miss GuillemePs"
I T.. IL
llsh dots who have been nurtured on useful "
literature, missionary reports and Aunt Judy's
| stories. aud who may grow up into Florence Night
ingales.
| Once in while we find a child in q Paris
| Salon who is of their kindred. Such a one is
Tony Faivres," little girl in blue, the darling
and deservedly so-of her happy father and mother
| between whom she stands Little Bluette" ex-
presses innocence in her vOletgray eyes, health in
her blooming checks, and talent for original
clever prattle in her slightly parted lips She is
| between happy father and mother. and with the
graceful abandon of childhood she leans against the
maternal hand.
"Iove Asleep" by Perrault, is a chubby baby
boy who after he had played until he was tired on
a fine Spring day. lay down to rest in the
long fowery grass and fell into q deep
slumber. An apple tree in blossom showers roseate
petals on and about the child. Some white drapery
in which the shoulders press takes the form of
wings. Anything more delicious never saw,
| Gervex this year is inspired by that chapter of
"pEIistoire d. I'M Crime" in which the story of the
slaughtered boy in the Rue TriouetOnne is related
"Denfant await recu deux bales dams 10 tete"
The poor grandmother rubs with her old hands, the
| limbs to call back the vitality which has
| forever deserted them. She is vulgar,
weather-beaten old crone, but dignihed
| by the depth and purity Of her bighted
affection, and rendered interesting by the poig-
nancy of her woe, which does not show itself IN
ciamor and in STACEY gestures. She is a noble
figure. Victor Hugo went to sec the painting in
Gervex's studio and admired the conception and
the technical skill displayed in the execution The