New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-18

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admirable in their way than the brllllaht nahuiins
of the other figure. The two ought, III 1acI' 10 oo
placed permanently together on the embankment'
where site has been found for the Tyndale. A
sitting statue of Darwin, colossal again, has oeeh
commenced. but is only commenced
Mr.. Frank Ho senior. elected associate en-
graver, is now best known as the father OF MI
Frank IIoll junior, the portrait painter an A. r. A.
Of no very old date. This threefold distribution
of academica honors between painters sculptors
and engravers raises afresh the question why
etchers are denied admission or recognition by
body supposed to be constituted for the encourage
ment of art in general. | don't know that anybody
has ever offered a satisfactory answer; II answer
there be- Sir Frederick Leighton, who Is orator
and writer as well painter and sculptor, ana VINO
as president is the mOuthpiece of the Academy
might be trusted to put il i'll the most plausible way
| suppose he would hardly say that form OF ex-
preston into which great man as Rembrandt
put so much of his genius, does not come within aEY
definition of art that could he framed by the COM
ell of the Academy. Nor would he hazard the as
scrtion that there are no English etchers worthy of
honor The use of the etching needle has not per-
haps been carried to such point of delicate perec-
ton in England as in France,-Or not by so many
men. But the late Mr.. Palmer, as the head OF one
school. and Mr. Seymour Haden, whom you have
among Won i'm America as "a brilliant performer III
another long since won place III the esteem allke
of artists and of the public. Mr. Hollis engraving
is purely a work of reproduction. The work OF the
etcher is sometimes of reproduction, Out oIton
purely original. Why should the copyist be ad-
mitted and the designer be excluded Mr.. Hol, |
bebeve no longer engraves HIS admission is
therefore a mere compliment. and marks as en-
phatically as possible the line when the Royal
Academy of Art i'll England draws between etching
and engraving.
Readers of Thursdays Standard London, January
~ have a cheerful view of affairs IN Washington
as seen through Tho extremely chromatic glasses OF
its Nrw-York correspondent He does not apprOveOt
the conduct of the Tariff discussion or of those VINO
take part in it. Scarcely dozen members Senators
and Representatives. included seem TO him TO show a
real interest in or knowledge Of the main subject,
orofthe principles of taxation. Even this dozen never
refer TO the general effect TO be produced upon
trade but limit their views to particular interests
or local. les or industries. The struggle is carried
ON with bitterness and narrow mindedncss. The
manufacturers tactics are INSCRIPTIONS. They
threaten members of Congress. they endeavOr To
confuse the whole subect-and so on is this cor
respondent an Americana And if be is, what is to
be SAID of an American who blackens the character
Of IN, own countrymcn and Of the whole National
Legislature in the coumne Of foreign paper'
Ihope may be excused from describing what is
called the Hounslow tragedy. 1t fills the
papers. which, the season beng Tor
the moment dull, rejoice in the sensa-
ton But the verdict Of the coroners jury is worth
quoting a. sIngularly condensed and forciblc sum
mary of the case. They found that Dr. Edwardes
had committed suicide while laborng under tempo
rary insanity, and expressed their emphatic opn-
10 that " he had been driven 10 his death by the
pressure brought to bear on him by his partner. Dr
" hrmarsh, IN using the false charge of Mr-. Big
nell ~ a means of drivii HIM To adi,honorabc
dissolution of partnership 1t may Ice doubted
whether any member of the coroncr's jury framed
that cogcnt sentence; "A sentence which between
two periods y1nacaics the memory of Dr. EdwaTdes.
demo- noes Mrs. Mmcrs mcudacity. accuses hex
and Dr. WEitmarsh of conspiracy; and puts INTO "A
legal formula the vi hole weight of that indignant
public opinion which heretofore has had TO express
itself by wIeckiug Or. Whitmarshs house and
threatening to lynch hIm and Mrs. Bignell together
II il not 20 much verdict as an indictment The
jury could hardly have missed this or some similar
result but II is probably due to the skilful hand
ling of the case 10y Mr.. George Lewis that tho YER
diet has taken hi, vigorous orn.
"Thc English" / read, are people Of few
ideas and so no wonder that the Brton. when once
"A
lighted with 1t hat be must needs write at once toa
daily new -raucr "a sentence which only ifi'on
could have composed. The new idea is a new name
for the Temperance people One OF Sr NIiud
Law SONS disciples d ,likiug 10 be- dubbed tee
total + or total als'aiucr has thought # calling
himself hydropot IA word OF Gr.cA origin, IN
tended by him 10 denote drnker Of wafer. But
this Instantly suggested "watcrpot,' and be nat
nralIy does not fancy being called "A waterproof.
" " .rnist" a hatcr oi vine, has since been pro-
posed but il Is extremely doubtful whether water
pot will not be- adopted by ac.lauaton. II the
Lawsonite- do not like IT, the rest oil the world may
De none the less ready To iasicn IT on them.
"Olvcttc" ha, been a.ain put on the London
stage, this time AZ the Avenue Theatre, where
| .Moufcaux Noirs" had long aud pros
| pcrous career. The wcllkuown opera of Audr,n
IAN year or more at the Strand Theatre,
where NJ Marins and Miss Florence st.
John created the parts which they now resume
II WAS a fayorIte piece with the Prince Of Wales If
| that h, important, and with the whole public OF
| Landau and of the provinces. and of more remote
mari. of the earth Miss -. Johns Ohrcte Is as
fresh and piquant and genuinely a.istlc rs ever on
| the dramatic side. In voice ana musical method
This charming singer has gained with the lapse OF
time since she first delighted the golden youth Of
| London VI. Marius also is a more accomplished
| actor than then, and altogether the opera seems
likely to Gll the Avenue Theatre for tie rest OF the
season.
The society papers of London are in nothing more
| unucky than III their announcements OF marriages
tho greater part of which seem made only to he CON
| tradicted. Tho latest exploit of one OF the most
adventurous among them s proclaim the ap-
preaching nuptuls OF Mr.. Alfred de ROthschlldr Of
London, with Mile Bcatrx, daughter of Baron
! Alphonse do KOthschild. of Paris There are sew
eral circumstances which might have induced a
scrupulou, chronIcler to pause before publishing