Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-04-21

Talking OF literary art naturally suggests
| other forms OF art We have not enough
| OF any kind OF art here In our city to in
! uulgs In any boastipg on account OF II. But
for such as We haye lot US be- thanh ful, tax @
| courage, aud diligently cult sste It that 1t
may grow and Increase.
What We need Ill Ist and most OF all is cor.
rect taste and popular sense OF apprecia-
tlon OF what IL best aud Highest in art. This
cannot come ut once. A community must
| be g,sdually and patiently educated up to
IT, What Is being done In this direction In
| the department OF musical art, referred to
stme time ago and We had another en-
| ooursging evidence Of IL only last Tuesday
In tho second OF MIR. Walter Bsusman's ex.
cellent Sherwood recitals Every such op.
portunity given Us to hear first class COM
positions rendered by first. class pei
former, is lesson learned, and just ia SO
lar raises our musical standard-though
the Introduction OF Harry Pepper aud bis
loud singing did not add anything to It.
Such lessons cannot be IN vain.
Now II the mere hearing OF good music
Is an educating and refining Influence in
that department OF our art culture, Il IL lust
as updeniable that the mere seeing of ood
pictures has the same elevatipg and i'm
proving effect In cultivatipg our taste for
pictorial art. What we are doing In this
latter department Ia as cons iderab as that of
the former, There Is a silent but steady
and effective education OF the popular taste
In this art going on In our midst, and, un-
less am very much mistaken, 1t Is already
beginning TO telling and showing some
encourseiug RESULT; And the man TO whom,
more than 10 any other one person, belongs
the credit for II, IL Mr. Chsrles ii. Barr.
His show-windows on Centre Square are
nothing short OF popular art school. The
daily display there OF some Of the fipest
specimens OF foreign and American art.
Work In the line OF etching and engraving
the opportunity to see and stndy these
the mere looking at them by hundreds OF
our citizens every day and thus becoming
familiar with what Is best in that line =
this In itself 10 necessarily training the
public eye to what really 10 good, to dis.
tinguish II from trash, and ts gradually but
surely cuihvstipg, refining, aud elevatipg
the public taste and standard. Ii 10 tescn.
ipR US TO know the good when we see Il, to
ci-tinguish 1t from the bad, and TO admire
and desire the former.
Nor need we be content with only look.
Ing at Mr., Bsrr's display, which N changed
ana renewed several times wsk. He is
slw sys glad TO have any one interested In
the subject step into his store, and not only
examine the scores and hundreds q of pictures
there, but also ask ali the questions about
them he chooses, 10 which ho will be sure
to got courteous aud satisfactory answers,
Try II next time you are In the neiRhbor-
hood and see whether what say is not
true. You will learn more about etching
aud engraving, how II 10 done, who are the
leading artists, what are the points /" OF q
picture, aud score OF other things about
which most people know next TO nothing.
when Mr., Barr went into the business he
determined first OF all to learn all about il
that was 10 be learned. He went 70 the
iesdlng artpubli.her In the country, Mr..
klscknsr, OF New York, sad watched
The enRrsvsrs and artists at work ON thsir