New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-30
fH6TLD A MFPICA HAVE A WESTMIN.
STER ABBEY?
CANON FARRAR'S ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF

aud only very best and highest when & III the
progress of America in Art has fallen sDort % ,Sa
progress all other things. she mas !eV W 'u'' VIZ
prophecy Of Sir william Jones:
commerce with fleets shall mock the waves
And arts that nOurish not with slaves,
Dancing with every Grace and Muse, ,., ho,,s
Shall hid the valleys laugh anu he"'oniy O'''"'
diluse'
Architecture sculpture, painting mosaIcs iron work
Are nor porn ia day. America Las yet ample u LII III
which to deyeop some ppln to 6e contom
nlated the erection or building WHOM was 70 ttu "a
oence how intense stimulus would lbs given to tue t3
aud to the ets Of every native artist! or course INC
and statellest de scr ptiOn. There should DC
MI parvo aut humii modo.'
The architecture should be OF the most maehucT ,
proportions the floors OF the most strous arPes tS
iposaics enriched with precious stones Paacmtg ana
lapz ahui and agate am eornc t tS anu srpid
Russian Cathedras. No paintlns'.no sculpture s.Unu
or which did not satisfy the severest csnons Of conie
porary believe that the bcSihhhS Ol SUI a.,
contemplation would form epoch IN inc hlstor{ oi
American art II is true that at the oesI gc res
in your Valhaa, In our Abbey many sou P'I ~,
which succeeding generations wonlG Goi,aeil;; ti
stHJo,t tho history of art. they teach him what 10
i1,it1to and what 10 avoid They reflect with maihng
SRa 81 the ner5ds by Which they We're produced
second. I should Ike IN my remaining re I'M I
point out certain incidental advahtageSMnlvn % az
accrue to American nation frcIn the posse9So VI
# would IRE the honorable passion for glory, the
desire for earthly immortality won by the 1e'E'Wl "a
Y..fg "a IA
Eli exer,i,ed over her Imagination by the modest
mansion on the banks OF the Potomac by Tue n emoTa
AT Gettysburg. by tue statues around her t%P''U ~.
Washington by the monument on iuuRtT M, hoM
expressed By the exSlanatCn III o
H. 1t would give fresh Impulse To ItGratuie- 4. ~
c0npleS 4gfaSG n9d be ncnit to estimate how
valuable books first been suggested 70 'helt AUTHORS
The most Interesting OF Lord Macaulay eSsaJS was
suggested to the great historian a. no sro SI
Dean Milman under the Dust Ol tne tI' , q, ,"e 80
Warren Hastings. IL is to that cenoiaph th"t we O"e ="
brilliant a chapter in orr Indian history, ,. ,...,
and hopefuness in the respondent 10 me history SL
most touciug Of history aud OiograI as are
recalled to the mndsts we gaze on the 4 "
been born said Monczuma, let that come WhIch nlst
Gomez II am man." said Frederick the Great - ana
tIeIeioro born to misfortune. But viii Oppose to mis-
fortune the coustancy OF man VIII breast INC SS4I
Human courage" said General Robert J.; Leo suOuu
rise to line height OF human calamity" Many strange
and terrible the cdlauites Wch alc'I IuS So
mon bodies arc now buried Ia Peaco I'vt ''
acut roofs but they wTtstled with them ana ty con
qucrcd The lesson ia not o,t nloH ,ne Tr9 o so
young. one day, more IMAM HuluIV,i 9c'is as ~
poor booksellers boy came into tLe ADDS 'S *
carry to the house OF his masters customer Tired ou.
the Door boy in at the great north DOOR aud SAT
ttry tears the thought came into LIS I4iIG; am
noth IN IN an Inv ufo long but to trudge the streets Of
Ionl,E under these heavy brrdens" Ana then uttlug
AID gotd everywhere around himi and he thought;
These became great many OF Inci 'Ion lT5'Hs
dried Ills tcr he shoudeIed hs burden; the sacred IRE
"A tOfl t
10 DO she eminent and suhty 1T. villain , A.
the first who translated the IiolY scriptures mo INC
missionaries 70 li'J neT vuiie o vio savrd ind1
the ulcss hero. sir houf{ a. WHG o. az INV 80
81 the terrible mutiny ana dcd Ike "oHe III inc ' u
NGS9ry; c lesson. derived from these memorials may
he both indirect and direct they may be iunrect yet
,erv REGIONS What nation, for Instance can anOrd 10
1t % of any influence which may help save 10 nom
1 gI 0 and COMMONPLACE views o fife; from types
o excellence: from the IatTy competition WIi,h strives
above al things material success from TIE denea
ton OF current popular opinoni from the desire to swim
with tue ana TO spread the sals 20 lne passing
breeze The memorials Of the great ana sooH nay tcI1
~ in-pre purer hopes and loer aspirations they VIII
% be hest the greatest the most reverel by Tostcty
have often been, in their own lifetime, utterly succe's
fu as the world counts success They have been 9iGn
Intensely unpopular aud msera6ly poor. They have
been surpassed in all earthly comforts ana boas,,,o'
cfianas They have enjoys 10 the utmost tie bitter
grain OF imdurated preiudices Kings have iroM ned on
Them priests anathemat1cu hor "a, STe{ sr to-
throw away tomorrow forever III EoeI 70 7tvoV MI
day Fools counted their lives madness ana Inelr emu
c6iIdren of God AMI their lot among the salnIst
W And the lessO Of instructive human lives may DC
GTect Tie picturesque sensibty Of the late Dean
OF Westminster was shown 9gan anu Hs9 III 'v
ya9as C cared his last utterance The bcst all is,
Cod Is with us" on The grave OF Livingstone are carved
the ast words found writ tn In ms plafy an can say
i'm NV solitude is. May Heavens best blessing rest on
cyery one Engshman, American OF IIr6' VINO 5nall
help TO heal this open sore Oi tne VIII cijn
. He feared man 80 little, because he feared Goa
mi
so nuoIf mems tTaned her youth in virtue by moral
sentiments aud inscriptions upon AsF h5InHt. S
England might thus silently teach thousand rlcA ana
TT Once such building h not without fl.
ilo.sed power in making for Peace ana Chty, ana
and reiisious warfare In the Abbey. Catholic Bishop
and Protestant Dean lie side 10y side ara men VINO ID
their lifetime would have burned cach oInoI lHclc Il
The memorial of Milton and the tomp OF BsHoP 9pi'.1
Who thought that the name OF nv 2 l Wa oo
Ct urna." in the stately tomb o. inc Iuuols nc Se
6nrucd PrOLestauts. There SIDE Oy sldc arc uie
memorials or statesmen whose lives were mG'nC'io
~ the coffin OF Put and Dsrae stands side by side WIN
t. Cno T Sitav il inc great Temple OF silence aud
Ioe wherein nineles the mortal dgs of the
fercest rivals, and where e buried the ahinQsies OF
thirty generations .t y Ie' d ee.l
"If GoG 5c mpertincnt in me to aid what every
American can add far better for hmsefthe names OF
lie statesmen the heroes, the phanthropisto the poets
the the eloquent men ana fathers M'o ptIt'
who would already claim pfouu lltc9 ~ , IN =
devoted the reception ana memorial OF lnc lil-u
po@nd snch nuclcrs 1t would become the eternal
memorial Of all your fame Ingenious youth TQn!d there
tioVernor Bradford and Miles standsh; and the nam
OF the Pilgrim Fathers; and 0uSts ana statues OF me CIV
Jefierson and Os and Patrick Henry and George WASH
ineon; and the heroes and martlIcd President OF Aou
riSiI War Just as the Church OF Paul outside the
walls of Rome meddlons OF the long Inc 81 rope,
downward from saint Peter. your Xal!iaila would
have pictures of tho lengthcuing line OF Presidents liO4
Washington. AID there would be tic scuipiIrco
features of your sweet singers Bryant ana L"MsIouu"
and OF your eminent thinkers, Ihoreau and Emerson
and O great historians, Washington IRVING, Hh'
Prescott and NOtey and Of such orators rs Henry Clay
aud Daniel Webster; and of Your men ~ genius llK'
NabauI Hawthorne ana Edgar Poe; and OF your erea
fheoOgans, Jonathan Edwards ana Claiming; ana o.
,'our EARLIEST Bishops like Seablry and White. Ant
;1ere when they sink to tue grave. full OF years and ul
of honors would be placed in due time the memorials Z"
such writers as Bancroft and Parkinan and Lowell am
Whittier and Holmes. But must stop. Perhaps nav
elrr1dy said too much. But | have written only d.
snecjai reJuest and urgent invitation and believe tina
IsaI lie hardened words dictated by that proioun
admiration for America which WIN me IS not ieeiin
nj vcster,loy but has been expressed ny me IN man
pubIc places IN England for more than twenty years