The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-13

thronged with an excited multitude. Thay
knelt down in the dust and implored us 10
leave them their deity, and offered 20
repay us ten times over the money We
had spent Our hearts, however, refused
to be touched, for the zeal of the col
lector dominated all our more humane
feelings. We kept the attention of the
crowd engaged by pretending TO enter into
serious parley with them, and meanwhile
the packing was FASTENED and by night
the statue was put on the road for Yoka-
hama to be thence shipped 10 Europe"
This Buddha, although it is only a re-
duced copy of the colossal one at Nara,
which stands eighty-five feet high is IT.
self fourteen feet in hight 1t is looked
upon as a genuine work of art, from tho
tranquility of the altitude and the gem
tleness of the physiognomy An over
whelmng sensation of silence seems TO
emanate from the fixity of its gesture and
the gravity of the expression.
Moving Marvels in Bronze.
The Buddha, however, is only one Of
multitude of marvellous creations. Bronzes
of all sizes and forms surround the visi-
tor to the new museum. Figures of ami
mails stand up and move, and in their
movements reveal wonderful precision
and most attractive and graceful decor
alive effect. Peacocks spread their gor-
geous plumes, cranes drink and cast up
their necks, and an entire poultry-yard OK
cocks, hens, geese and ducks moves ana
lives on the ground in the agitated COM
bative existence that is theirs in nature.
Flexible fish bring before the eye. of our
imagination the direction and velocity or
the river an which they live Grabs, jelly
fish, turtles, lobstcrs are all TO be seen
in their characteristic attitudes Serpent5
slowly unron their coils, tigers roar with
head twisted back, elephants wave their
trunks and horses and mules pass with
steady foot.
A glance at the mounted horsemen shows
us how these artists of the extreme east
eXcelled in the observation of the picture
esdue and in the delineation of animal life.
The accuracy of the movements, the sohd-
ity of the forms, the delicacy of express
sion are truly admirable.
And the revelation of soul Is a no less
wonderful achievement. Their phioso-
piers, priests and female divinities have
the same atmosphere of retreat and con-
templative life that we realize in our oW"
Gothic statues.
Exquisite Examples Of Enamel work
Inspired by Vision.
Other objects attract us by their beauty
of detail, their delicacy of workmanship
the care and symmetry, for instance,
with which traces OF gold and silver anu
dellcately-toned enamels are laid on back
grounds of dark green or moss-color III
the fabrication of sacred vessels. There -
a strikingly well-balanced teapot in inc
form of a duck; there is a realistic inquire
of seated emperor gouged out Of blocks
of wood; there are porcelains, ivore9,
stones. all strangely and artistlcaNS
wrought
II is again an interesting study TO cor"
template those of the works that are DIS
tinctiy Chinese, and which retain thai I'M
preston of grandeur and harshness winch
Is peculiar to their art since it's creation
1900 years before our era, and to compare
these with the marvellous adaptaDh.y
and delicate gaiety of the japanese on
jects.
Western artists VIII not come 10 me
Musee Cernuschi TO ind forms which th.y
may initiate, but rather 10 study The WORK
ing-out OF the forms. Above AL they md'
learn much about imparting an impre
sion of strength and sol!dity to tnel
works. Nothing Is better qualified to DrIL5
out the sense Of fragiity with the has-o
Of production that lurts in modern EuIo-
pean works of art than a simD.e Visit
this new museum, whioh Is becoming lH'
talk OF the artistic world Of Europe.