New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-27
ASSYRIAN DISCOVERY.
PROF. ROGERS'S LECTURE AT CI1AUTACQrA.

WORK OF GREAT PUBLISHING nOccf|-rnoF'
uoYEsEx TALKS ABOUT GERMAN ART
OTHER INCIDENTS OF THE DAY.
yBr TELEGRAPH TO rHr TKrBUSE.1
fhautauoua n Y. July 26.-The popularity Of Pro
fAssor Owen seaman at ChsutauQua and the esteem In
which he Is held sttested this morning at College
Cbausl The audience filled the hall " the doors. De-
sides the adjoining room. His subject was Ire
Colrtesy OF Christ The seventeenth volume OF Tine
Assembly Herald" the organ Of the Chautanqla ~
sembly began with the issue OF last Wednesday The
paper Is an e!ghtpage daily and ontiDs report OF
lectures and sermons at ChaLtauqua during August
The circulation Is high 10000 copies daily VI.
r. L. Flood Us the Editor Of The Assembly Herald
and o. The taautauquan." started by MN
fifteen years ago In support OF The 'Qu"'
tauQa system Of popular education inc WI
ter a monthly magazine. has more than Il qaar'"' u
million Of readers aud goes into all countries Oh '"e
world. There are 100 subscribers In fara"dy New
Zca.lnd. Transati0ns Of articles IN The CAi'u"uq"'
are published In Japanese magazine every non"''
The Chautauqua Literary and scientific Chc's = 'H9
cornerstone Of ali CAautsuquan educational worA'
ie-idcs the required reading published IN the pae'
zine and these make up oAehali 0i The p!e'or'oeu
course the firm OF Flood d Vincent publish more '"u''
100000 text books Annually. Fifty thousand DooA>
have been pui through their presses au'nH '"s
four wee,as. The plant IN Mead'll!e i Ih"r"'s"N
equipped and - the largest publishing house ue'
New York and chicago The junior member VI ,'0
firm Is Ieorg. f. Vincent. III. son " The cE"'0+'O'
and bishop Mr Vincent Is admirably fitted by h''
business eNpcrieace and hi, natural d"alnoa''o- i"f
his part in Til, great bushes.
f. V. FlagIer the 0rganist al Chau'auqnA' ie''u'e'
this morning Oh Beethoven and a. Illustrators Va III
music gave selections from the symphonies anu io"
the overture to EsmOnt.' The chorus ana or'nVN""
rendered the HalleuIah Chorus" from Inc MUM
of olives"
The story Of Assyriun discovery ana d'c!pnei'"c"l
WIS the subject of Professor Robert V. ROgei'' Vi
IicLeIson College. While Professor Rogers tola o H'
new discoveries he gave graphic history o t'e "n
earthing OF cities with pctursquehea> VI "et"
which made the subject highly Interesting. lie oe
gan by describing u journey from Beirut, IN syria
over the desert TO the ruins OF auclent Uneven ana
thence down the Tigris and across another s'rp o'
desert 10 the ruins vi BABY l0n He said; ""reece
and Rome have in u certain sense pcr>heu' Du' u''Y
have persisted leaving noble heritage Ill s'e''
literature and art 80 while these dties OF Inc MIS-"
Dotamian Valley have beS1 blotcd from the maps
within the great mounds still lie the hDf"les Oh ''N'
PEOPLES Two sources OF imagination have made these
nbmr,es accessible. The first is the work OF the DE-
ciphsrer the second that Of the cXcavator. Oro'e-
fend German scholar in 1902 began to decphcr Inc
ancient Persian Inscriptions, and these nave gwen 'e
key for ancient Assyran. The second work. 'ha' oi
excavation Is represented by the great names Vi
Botta I.yard George Smith and Others" rrViesso'
IA heel
inscriptions and has spent every summer Tor many
Years In the octual work Of decipering In the British
Museum He has published number OF Inscriptions
OF Ess,rhaddon. Professor Rogers sails on August -
MS delegate 10 the international Congress ol Orieh-
talists at London.
Miss Alice stone. in her hospital uniform gave me
third lecture on nursing and members Of the GirlN
Outlook gave accounts Of flower ana picture us
tribuon among children and the sick. President
Merrill F. Gates OF Amherst delivered an eloquent
address this afternoon. In the Hall VI Philosophy On
A Young Mans Fortune, or "ower OF WILL Inc
first piano recital OF the season was given TINS aiVT
noon BY william II. Sherwood. of Chicago assisted DIV
Bernhard Lstemann, vollniSt. The subject Of BOOK
madnes, and It's Victims" was treated In an entertain
fog and racy manner by Leon III. vincent
This evening Professor IL. IL. Boyc7en gave Ms
second lecture of This season, the subject Modern
German Painters" lie confined himself u me
Munich school aud said: "The first connecting nhh
between German and Italian art was AiDfech' DucI'
.erhaps the greatest artist Germany has proonceu'
There was art industry In Germany before the u'he
Of Durer but properly speaking there was no ART IL
il great question whether such realism a. Tor III
stance that of The Russian painter Ncresthdsll' ap
pllcd to sacred subjects Is an advance upon
the naive aud chdNke Me;dsm oi tNe o'u
masters The object Of art j. ho u MANY
falsely assert, the Imitation Of nature All Is l"e'
a language for the expression Of de:a' II Is t"e
clotbe our inward ideas and conceptions. Nature
furnishes the alphabet for this language IL fufhsh's
The substance for tbs body The old preRaphaelue
painters knew this alphabet very imperiNe!' ON
they vet succeeded In expressing, crudey perhaps
but vet quite ntillengently what they had at heart
hlbrecht Durer succeeded IN revealing grandeur VI
soul which The expert masters Of day rarely eN
libit Noble earncstness. sincerity and vg0r char-
seterize his work His 'CrucihYion' could scarcely
be improved upon as regards anatomical structure Oi
Hans Holben the younger the speaker SAID lie n'tu
the technique he acquired not 70 mimic foreign IDEAS
but TO express his rugged German nature Lucas
Cranach the elder, Il master or early German ATI
neither rlvaled Durer in depth Of thought, nor
Hobesn in vlgor Of execution. Enl Il he lacked III
dencacy Of touch b. exceled in broad and emphatic
Characterization. These thIee were the M's"'S Vi
Inediaeval German att"
In conclusion Professor BOyesea said: The Nh
Mich school represents prc-eminently the ideal tend
ency in German art aiming al q grand style In mOnn-
neItal themes while the Dusseldorf school cur
Yates a more sentimental tendency, finding expires
Sion largely in genre pictures Of domestic lnc and In
Landscapes evelllng in and harmonious color.
These are two distinct elements ia German character
and therefore equally Legitimate Generally speak
Ing the Munich school has 5tccfed clear of loud ana
snowy defamation more successfully than the Dus
seldorf school has evaded weak aud mandlin scnUi-
mentalism Together they cOr,t1te d noble m0nu
ment u the heighth and dept!i u German Thought
the purity we'll the tenderness and anc"ry VI
German sentiment. Tie Nation wh.ch Las p 10
ducel such srtisi- has fund Of slch vitality which
guarantee Of its ability IN MAINTAIN ls h.sh pace
In human history" The lcct,ire Wa nciAl 4Ius
trated BY reproductions OF the USt ""IS vi l"c YARN
German masters.