Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-09-24
COMM ENTS OF THE NEW YORK PRESS,
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| COMM ENTs OF THE NEW YORK PRESS.
| From the Tribune.l
| But though Mr. Gilbert seems to write with more &C.
it look below the surface for the moral
Roserous ncongrutes other Of his books There
esons a 1o 5 ne in
thar it is w S el Ser
Of Penzance," from leaving his bioodthrsty masters
make little difference h that have seen little
dialogue and are Peey obyo and T1 eI o s
not need to know the original to be able to laugh
| clever caricature.
In the score Of Patience Mr.. Sullivan has followed
success in Pnafore and The Praes T II Is not
sH IN il Es
same lines very closely The nales to both acts bu
n
there is capital ali for Lady jane at the beginning
i on
nd aes # bnsh ssd There
while there are some that are very charmin ing.
T S Be- the
w the @ Of this is the
tSs but w hsish M time
deal and s ma aos srd d Wholesome as the n,
hand the allotted to Grosvenor the idyiiie
are as simple and pastoral as anything well could
4 5cr sse MUSIC e IT, sshstss not 'l IS
M Sullivan Of be
ted WITH ne creation OF school OF music as limp dis
and and are fey s
Sssd Phss fSsssy Msiaen IS ehsrminsy s1see
Painve oWne and prety ana tbeps
really beautiful sextete. anaccompanied in the finale
as 500 Sr e ss e Ss
high esthetis line" and there several good duet
tie BODY WORK. and Ike lie rest Il
IFrom the worldl
dyRG9 1s
sas s.pes ss
sumptiye laekadasical people who in English society
and g os IL
:ses ss0ss ss Rs'nFss
have
good and useful word asthetics into very good and
poet Poseth%site the artist and their xorshippers
ns ths or Do
Modern tastheticism"-to another word coined by
well n
Greece and Rome and later by Goethe and Schiller
phrase pss5ps essnsaT Wits nissbus hits the he
sou rec Of modern @stheticism'-
EEess as mafS initiate
1t the outgrowth Of in modern art and
literature. The Pre- Rafaelian Brotherhood" prob
ably gave it the natory flip; Matthew Arnolds advo-
cacy of Sweetness and Light" and his denuncation
of Phistinisms made many converts who failed to
comprehend the aesthetic purpose Of the essayist the
gances of the '.neshly poets" Swinburne and
the growth Of the .ssthetc crase." But T the
caricaturists could staAd it no longer when
Mr.. Oscar Wilde icon of the late Sir William Wide at
Dublin oculis and his wife, the poetess who signed her
self 'Speranza came to the fore an 'fdyEc poetn-
Oscar Wilde who. according to Of his historians
'let his hair grow very long, strangely made
garments, carried lilies in his hands, and when hOOted
by urchlns In the streets calmly remarked 4 am
glad TO afford amueements to the lower claesee $
gave afternoon tea parties in his apartments where
the ngnt was rose cOlored and subdued. almost
20 darknesss and talked in high flown
1asm0n Du Maurier found this picture TOO utterly
utter 70 be neglected. and Burnand declared it 'oo
too" The one pmctured .testheticsm" with his
9sthetee" ridiculous ON the stage.
ridicnledby pen and pencil it remained for the comic
operate tw1ns Messs. Gilbert ard Sullivan to make
use OF It In their own peculiar way. Mr. Oibert Who
seems % have adopted the Byronic motto
Fools are my theme. let satire be my song
has pounded the aesthetics" unmeardfully In his nav
3Pera Mn,ch e e much superior to his .Pintes q
PinafoEe or that nautical and pocai satire Va TO
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