New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-12

threw n lily from her box. The audience ap-
plauded and as the lecturer returned he was
greeted with bunch of Jacqueminot roses. He
picked them up, again bowed his acknowledge
ments and retired. The receipts were estimated to
be 5000 which is less by $500 than at bis first lee
ture in New York. p. T. Barnnm was present and
occupied front seat.
THE LECTURE.
In my first lecture, / gave you some
thing OF the history OF Art In England. / sought
to trace the influence Of the French Revolution
upon its development. said something OF the song OF
Keats and the school OF the preRaphaeltes But do
not want to shelter the movement which have called
1.-THE English Renaissance under any palladium, how
ever noble any name however revered The roots OF
II have indeed to be sought for In things that have long
past away and not suppose in the fancy OF anew
young men, although am not altogether sure that
there il anything much better than the fancy OF few
young men. When appeared before you on a previous
occasion, had nothing of American art save the
Doric columns and Cornthian chimneypOts visible on
your Broadway and Ffthave. Since then have been
through your country to some fifty OF sixty ciles'
think. find that what your people need II not 80 much
high Imaginative art. but that which hallows
tho vessels Of everyday use. | suppose that
the poet will sing and the artist will paint
regardless whether the world praises blames. He
has his own world and Is Independent OF his felowmen
But the handcrafsman Is dependent on your pleasure
and opinion. He needs your encouragement and he
must have beautiful surroundings Your people love
art but YOU do sufficiently honor the handcrafts-
men, OF course. those mliOnaires who can pllage
Europe for their pleasure to
such; but speak for those whose desire for beautiful
things larger than their hnd that one great
trouble all over is that your SOrkmen rot given to
noble designs You cannot be indifferent to this because
art is not something which you take or leave 1t is
necessity Of human life.
~ nj doc tiou
which call art In the first place it means vane to
the workman and ii means the pleasure which he must
necessarily take in making beautiful thing The mark
OF all good art that the thing done Is done exactly
or finely for machinery do much but that 1t Ia
worked out with the head and the workmans heart /
cannot impress the point too frequently that beautiful
and rational designs necessary in all work did not
imagine until went into Of your simpler cities that
there was so much bad work done. | found where
went bad Wallpapers, horribly designed and colored
carpets and that old offender the horsehair sofa whose
stod look OF indifference is always so depressing
found meaningless chandeliers and machiremade furni
ture generally OF rosewood which creaked dsinaly I'M
der the weight Of the ubiquitous interviewer came
across the small iron which they always persist in
decorating with machine ornaments and which IS
as great a bore wet day any other particularly
dreadful institution When unusual extravaganza was
INDUCED in it was garnished with two funeral urns.
BRING ARTIST AND WORKMAN TOGETHER.
1t must always he remembered that what is well and
carefully made by an honest workman after rational
design increases beauty and value the years
The old furniture brought by the Pilgrims 200 years
ago. which saw in New England Ia just good and
beaut full to-day It when IL first here. Now
what you must do is to bring artists and
handicraftsmen together. Handicraftsmen cannot ye
certainly cannot thrive, without such companiOnship
Separate these two aud you rob art OF all spiritual mo-
tive Having done this, you must place your work
man in the midst OF beautiful surroundings.
that anfi
BILE. He his visions and his dreams to feed on But
the workman must lovely forms and beautiful forms
goes to his work In the morning and returns at
eventide. And connection with this, want to as
you that noble and beautiful designs the
result of idle fancy or purposeless day dreaming
Of long and delightful observation. And yet
such things may not be taught Right ideas
concerning them can certainly only DO obtained
by who have been accustomed to rooms that
beautiful and cOlors that are satisfying.
Perhaps of the most difficult things for US to do is
would be more JOY in life If we should accustom our
selves TO use all the beautiful colors
dress of the future, think, will drapery great
extent and will abound with joyous color. AT present
almost annihatcd the modern sculptor. And in looking
around at the figures which adorn parks could
art To see the frock coat Of the drawing
room done into bronze or the double waistcoat perpe
ated in marble adds new horror to death Bur indeed
In looking through the history OF costume seeking
to the questions have prOpOunded there little
that is either beautiful appropriate One of the ear
est forms the drapery, which is so exquisite
be pardoned little enthusiasm over the dress of tie
time Of Charles beautiful indeed that In spite Of its
invention being with the cavaliers was copied by the
Puritans And the dress for tho children al that time
be passed 1t very golden age of the
little ones. do not think that they have
ever looked lovely they do in tho pictures Of
that time. The dress OF the last century
in England is also peculiarly gracious and graceful
There is nothing bizarre strange about it, but il full
of harmony and beauty Ia these days, when We have
suffered so dready the incursons of the modern
ininer, hear ladies boast that they do wear
dress than In the old days when the dresses
decorated with beautiful designs and worked with
exquisite embroidery ladies' rather took pride IN bring
ing out the garment and wearing it many times and
handing 1t down TO their daIghters-a process which
think would be quite appreciated by modern husbands
when called upon TIC settle their wives bills.
HOW MEN SHOULD DRESS.
And how shall men dress Men say they don't par
ticularly how they dress, and that 1t is lit
tie matter / am bound TO reply that I do not
believe them and do not think that you do In all my
Journeys through the country the only welrezsed men
that sawand in saying this earnestly deprecatc the
polished indignation of your Fifth-aye dandles-were
the Western miners. Their wide-brimmed hats which
shaded their faces from the sun and protected
them from the rain, and the cloak
which ia by far the most beautiful
piece Of drapery in vented, may wen De dwelt on
with admiration. IN eir nigh boots TOO. sensible
and practical. They only wore what was comfortable
aud therefore beautiful. As looked at thein could not
help thinking with regret OF the time
when these picturesque miners should have
made forum and would 20 last to again
al the denominations Of modern fashionable attire
Indeed, ooncer. ed was | that | made them
promise that when they again appeared III the more
crowded of Eastern civilization they would still
continue their lovely costume. But don't be-
now what America wants to-day is school of rational
design. Bad great deal worse than all
You must show your wOrkincn specimens OF good work
that they may come TO KNOW what Is
1 would you have n attached 10 these schools
not one Of those dreadful modern institutions whore
there are a stuffed and very dusty giraffe aud
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