New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-26
,o,n WIN had contracted sedcntary

,uudrv of them who had contracted seden'afS
The Major turned his house into iaye ,hron
that is changed its name-put up sign ah u, nv
weeks aterward you conunv ha yope rs happy rs
ever: fine Major never having put on aiis oi at,o
qance in prosperity, felt no Illumination III S m
ftv the girls we're cheerful as DustIiuS' au ,%o
iiSbt he.Ytod as ever and seemed to think oil the
duties of hostesses mere bagatees 70 30 oodotas
time The old Major was as pioh9en ,i; W he same
os oy.r and never grew tned OF telling tne sinlo
ones to every new guest and yet the MAJOR ahec
does were all of Virginia growth, anu NV ~ ,ba
them under the legal age OF twom n hn bad hose
Major had worked mis- negroes as DC nau sh the
anecdotes he would have been able to pay OH 'he
hills of exchange without eny difficulty
Tine old lady and the girls laughed M tne a a,
dota. thouph they must have heard them at leaso
a Thousand times and knew them by heaI'' LOT t th
Major told them without the vari@uohs' H a9 .n0
ofher friends of the Major laughed, too lhueou,
Urtb snrh an air of thorough benevolence ana III
such truly social spirit. did the ola ieIioW oi
9" the tale to unfold that sau anvthing to
lauph at or not ought to have been sent W on1
pententiary for life. half of the time TO DC spon'
in solitary confinement 80 r.. ,-
About the Southern humorous writing oil to-uay
there is more of literary art. more OF what may
properly be called humor, than in the chafac'e'
sketches of thirty-five years ago. The lnimliao,o
history of the Tar Baby" and Mr.. r. NJ Iohnstohs
Dnkeshorough stories are not less amusing Vigor-
ous and characteristic and certainly more rehneu,
than arc the relations of Mr.. Hooper and Colonel
Tbompson concerning the FRANKS OF Suggs anu
Joues Mr. Harris has shown, particularly III i,'
clever sketch in HdrperS Christmas, an en'laoio
power to stir the chord of pathos when ousnV
never to be far away from that OF humor. MI
| Tobps.on. who is a scholar and wit, has lively
conprehension of character and an agreeaole Buy
1t may be that these two, with Mr.. CaDIe' WIN
| preserve for us in shape to which the carrier
[ q hVntn
| grotesoue records of old time life in the South.
Mr.. Watterson probably in the spirit OF good
comrade has reprinted number of floating with
csms contributed by various individuals to various
| pewsparers However mrth- provoking i'll their
nroner place they have lost all SAVIOR in the course
| of Translation to the pages of a book MI Proctor
Knotts Duluth speech might have also have peer
omitted with advantage. This elaborate saVre'
| which was effective enough when aided by tohe'
expression and gesture, doeiul 10 the last degree
| in black and white.
PARTISAN ART AND ARTISTS. BY HENRY BACON
| James r. OsgOod Co.
| Certainly If one compares Mr. Bacons book with
such hooks as Jules Clareties Pentres ct Sculp-
teurs Contemporary; Ernest Chesneaus Les
Nations Rivaes dams Part" or Tb6ophlle SlveStre
" Historic DIES Artistes Vivants," he will lind the
Americans performance slight and unsatisfactory.
But if he will look at it fer what IT 49, the sensible
chat CT n clever artist in the form of rather long
| magazine article about things all of which the
artist has seen. and part of which he was, he viii
close the book with juster impression. these
| pages really make no pretension to be anything
more than a sketch of the careers and OF the ways
0f working and living of fifty or sixty of the artists
| who are the celebrities OF the dav and hOnr
Nh Henry Bacon is an artist far less well known
| 1t I hoo a
tee of working with the industry that alone car keep
q nanter in the eve of the world. He has lived so
long in Paris that he is of Parisla1 than an
American and If we are right III our impression, he
ha, worked more for those who, Parisdealer
fashion, have traded on his facility and de4terty
than has been good for his reputation as an artist
He has great deal of cleverness much better eye
for color than IS at all cOmmon among his adopted
countrymen aud no little skill in telling story.
he has the genuine artist temperament. ana ms
sociabiIty his good nature and his entire sympathy
with the Day of living made HIM welcome COIN
nanion of the artist society OF Paris tits ten years
ago and over-a society gayer and more light OF
heart. we fancy, than that of to-day 1t was to be
expected that, one day or another. Henry Bacon
| would write down some of his experiences, and
chronicle the dongs of the of the world with
which he was so well acquainted. And had he kept
| n iournal of his residence in Paris during the last
years OF the Second Empire. we should certainly
have found preserved there many curious and inter-
estnq zen nscencos. The present book gives us less
| of snch matter than We had looked for; it deals
| mostly with the artists who are in vogue to-day,
| and while this gives the record a value OF its own,
| We must think the essential worth of most OF the
names here recorded less than that of those whose
careers preceded theirs Rousseau, Mlllet, ColOt
DIM Delacroix-these were creative artists and
l.l,- will i1anu
they had it is true less chic. by far than the gilt
terirg galaxy whose dOings Mr.. Bacon chronicles
but it remains to be seen what fortune these now
risen stars will influence Remember, that it il
while the sceptre is in their hands that for the first
time IN fifty years, the Kingdom of painting seem
in danger of passing away from France. IL II
strange to read III late number OF Fart these
words from distinguished French writer. NJ. Pau
LEROY who says: There Is nj room for illusion
France IS on the road to Sedan in Art He
defeat this Year is plain to everybody. The United
States, England, Switzerland. Holland, Sweden
Denmark, Norway Germany, are rivals as to wht
shall carry away from her the crown CT painting
Never could words like these have had any mean
ing while the men have just named were ac
lively at work. While these Mscgregors lived her
was always the head of the table.
But we take Sir. Bacon's book as it is
and praise him for having made read
} able sketch Of the artists who are just nov
swimming on tho top wave of Paris life, max
ing fortunes for the dealers and Tor themselves
rivang one another in the length of the queues be
fore their pictures in the Salon. and in the splendo
of their studios, where amid whirlwlnd o brio a
brac tapestries. furniture armor and luxurious sur
roundings of all sorts, we wonder how any wor
gets done, but wonder less when we see the sort u
work that is done. The author gives us sketche
of all the schools-ot the lmpressionsts Manet VIII
after shocking all Paris into rude laughter, ends