New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-06

things, n place of happy labor. 1t has, OF conrse.
its dining roOm-nOt so large as to suggest much
lOunging over meals-and its drawing room which
persuades one that there is little withdrawing to
Il from that literal drawing and painting room,
the studio. Aud round that studio cluster many
workshops-that in which the young painter
father works at his wood-carving and those IN
which Mr.. Ilerkomer etches and engrayes, ana III
which bis plates are printed under MS own care,
and pressed and dried. Yet the bOuse ID now only
IN its beginnings great scheme having illled inc
heat and head of its owner whose own WORDS, III u
letter written from Roston at the en1 OF March
snd inst received from him BY friend SnG,a IN
This scheme Mr.. HerkOmer describes as =, a
great dream of my life, and OF my fathers ne, ~
is to be house. he says which shaIa Soan nys a9
four Herkomers-ny fat her, my uncle VINO mas
remained in America all these years. ana anOth I
uncle also here who is weayer ana n s w
ally clever carver aud through this plan his
troubles in life (of getting his honest WORK 10 GoI
pete with that of men OF doubtful WdySo w." ano;u
over 1t was indeed day when we all mel again
at Cleveland after absence OF twenty-five
years. | built before | left home large WORKSHOP
studios. in which everything connected WIN tn9
house. is to lie made: and hero we have sciecteu
the best of the niece. saTy time-sarlng inacnlGery
and have learnt much generally IN methods. means
and WAYS. that only the ingenious American ls
capable Of All this is TO be started IN I ne au
tumn. and the whole inner structure, Win lts
elaborate carving. is to he finished pedPro wS
touch a brick. We three cannot do IL ALL ana
shall of course bave our assistants. cannot de
vote more than certain portion of the year to It,
So You see how the aspect of things has altered
new TO me il is not. | only watching ana
waiting to see It's possibility in the future. NV
it has come. and many heart in my circle beats
with more than ordinary emotion
That Mr. HerkOmeIs visit to the United states
has been series of triuuphs for him will surprise
nobody. "Of my visit here" he says N the letter
we have already quoted from, can only tell you
of success, and Of host of friends, and OF eXces
sve work. My portraits seem TO give great S ,
faction, and am working as hard as can. bere
in Boston have had us many as five sttors day
These are. indeed. lovabe people; cannot speak
too highly of them and shall never cease to feel
gratitude toward them for the way IN winch they
opened theiI hearts TO me and to those VIII Inc;
friendship that is binding and lasting ls iOIlled
here RAPIDLY. In the 'EmiTants at Castle Gar
dens have the most remarkable subject | ever
had to tackle and the most difficult. But how
little we in England know of the true stale OF
things here. Those reporters who get hold OF the
badly selected items to send over to papers III other
countries do some of the mischief. Besides, tne
known aud long accustomed ana accepted char-
acteristics are not easily dismissed by us on the
other side You must live here. and in no country
In the world is a man more quickly found out than
in the America of to-day" so IL seems, Ill Tie
case of Mr. HerkUmer himself.