Year: 1875

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To those who have not had the benefit of
foreign travel the budget of sparkling gossip
which comes to rs in the cable letter from
our Paris Bureau will be astonishing, as
showing the art-energy which that splendid
metropolis displays from day to day. 1t is,
indeed, to-day the magnetic pole of art, as
Rome was in the time of Augustus and
Athens in the time of Pericles. ''See Naples
and die" is hyperbolic way of saying that q
knowledge of the beautiful in nature is in
complete until the glorious bay dominated
by Vesuvius has met the gaze, and, apply
ing this, we may say that he has no knowl-
edge of art life who is not cognizant of
the dreamings and doings of Paris
in the cause of art. Yesterday, we
learn. the obsequies of Mile. Dejazet took
place before great and distinguished
throng. Eighty years of histrionic art were
among her mourners, although to mortal
vision nothing more than living sentient Paris
followed her to her resting place at Pere la
Chaise. She had danced before the allied
sovereigns in 1915, when the grisettes of Be-
ranger sang ''Nos dnais. les es,en,iS," and
probably would have sung 'Lisette" before
Emperor William if he had ventured to oc-
cupy the city in 1870. In her fitting, vola-
tile way she was type of Paris, and in her
indifference to the auditory, whether Chris
tian or Paynim, Gallic or Teutonic, she typi-
fed art which is for all men and
all time. We cannot comment on all
the art items which come to US in our cable
letter but it will be gratifying to Americans
to learn that the musicians of Europe are
deeply interested in the Centennial at Phila-
delphia and that if we are not to have the
German Crown Prince, the crowned prince
of German musicians, Wagner, may visit our
shores. Offenbach will bring opera boufe
with him, and we shall have his sparkling
family of gay heroes and heroines and if he
can induce Judic to accompany him he will
be doubly welcome. Nilsson, we see, has
turned chilly shoulder to Bordeaux, be-
cause her manager found that all the civic
and military authorities wanted to occupy
seats without paying for them. We applaud
the manager, as we can fancy the plight of
Maretzek, for instance, If he found that Mayor
Wickham, General Porter, Commissioner
Matsell, Commissioner Bailey, the Board Of
Aldermen and the General Committee of
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Postmaster James and the Judges of the
United States, Police and State Courts, led
by Judge Davis and Judge Brady, were
drawn up in file before Steinway Hall when
he opened the doors for q concert. Each
country has its usages and even in New
York we find that the shareholders at the
Academy of Music fill the place Of the civic
and military incubus that frightened Ull
man away from Bordeaux So through
painting, sculpture and literature we have
word of the latest works from the brushes
Of Gerome and Meissonier, the mask from
the face of the dead Carpeaux, and the latest
important publications.


All this nerve force sends out its pulsa-
tions over the civilized world, and if we
make the cable its neurometer we are only
fulfilling our duty to the public. 1t has
long been known that the compass of art
pointed its needle Parisward, and, knowing
that so many of our fellow countrymen had
sought art and pleasure at the shrine itself,
we opened our reading room in Paris, that
those who were dazzled by the attractions of
the beautiful city might turn to q place
where amid every surrounding conducive
of comfort, the American abroad might read
his home newspapers and recall that q
mighty nation across the sea was rapidly
rising to that empire of knowledge and
resources which would in the travail Of time
develop an art centre like Paris is to-day.
The success of our reading room has been
complete, and, coupled with our Paris cable
letter, it enables Us to feel sense Of gratif-
cation, in which Americans must share, that
we have thus brought the Old World closer
"a tho New and the New to the Old