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CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF TORONTO. The Canadian Journal for April, 1874. 



NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. Historical and Genea- 

 logical Register for April-June. 1874. 



NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. Record of the. 

 Vol. v, No. 2. April, 1874. 



PUBLISHERS. Americaji Naturalist. Forest and Stream. Gloucester Tele- 

 graph. Haverhill Gazette. Ipswich Chronicle. Lawrence American. Lynn 

 Reporter. Lynn Transcript. Medical and Surgical Reporter. Nation. Nature. 

 Peabody Press. Salem Observer. Salem Post. Silliman's Journal. 



Edward Thompson, of Salem, was elected a resident 

 member. 



EDW. A. SILSBEE, of Salem, gave a familiar talk on art 

 matters. The following is an abstract of his remarks : 



WE must go to Europe to see art in its greatness and 

 extent. Driven through a hundred galleries, we come 

 to know something at last. One day we wake and find 

 ourselves connoisseurs. We grow confident. We go 

 alone. But time is needful to mature taste. It grows by 

 lying fallow, and is a constant revision of previous judg- 

 ments. It is an induction like science, and should be 

 wide as the subject. 



Art is a double sense, an eye behind the natural eye. 

 Artists look upon nature with subtler vision. They inter- 

 pret it for us. We must look with their eyes to enter 

 into their work. They multiply our senses and give us 

 enjoyments undreamt of before. Poets do the same. 

 Without being artists or poets we can get from them their 

 key of vision, as families and friends grow alike by nat- 

 ural imbuing and like atmosphere. Thus we have the 

 genius of the world at command, and live on the top of all 

 the ages. Goethe went far to realize this. It is culture 

 in its ideality and entirety. Emerson would do it with 

 more artistic temperament. Artistic sense differs from 

 the poetic. The one is general, emotional ; the other 

 professional. They should play into each other. Artist 

 should be poetic ; poet artistic. 



