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ART AND ARTISTS. 
frj Aeadeinv of OmIjii. 
The forty-fourth annual exhibition of tho 
TJ National Academy of Design opcucd April 14th, 
J and is very satisfactory. The gradual falling off 
n of old and well established artists only (fives the 
| greater room for younger, fresher and equally 
entertaining worker*. The number of pictures 
is four hundred and seventeen; subjects In sculp¬ 
ture, eleven. Of the last the most prominent Is 
a reclining statue, by M. WOOD, of “ Kvk." look¬ 
ing with a smile upon a miserable little snake, 
which has thrust its head up at her from the 
ground. Thu whole idea is meager and silly, 
but tho work, although not by any moans great, 
is very well executed. The limbs are well 
moulded, the hands and feet tempting and 
shapely, but too plump to be at all yplrituellc . 
Tliis statue gives a “pretty" Eve, but for uil 
a painter or sculptor may do, we shall continue 
to believe that our Mother Eve was fur more 
beautiful. A bust In marble of Mrs. Geouc.c C. 
Ante on, by herself, is an exceedingly pleasing 
one, and so life-like and living that tho absence 
of color does not seem manifest. It is most 
charmingly free from tho rigidity and precision 
that characterize portraits in marble, ft lias the 
llcxibility, the rlnnt, physical tsensuousnosa of 
Hush and blood, full of active, happy life. Er>- 
WAHD .1, KiJNT/.E contributes a pleasing por¬ 
trait medallion; Makuaket 1’oijby, medallions 
“Viola” and “Tmslcvclma K a hi. and Wil¬ 
liam Mtrbi.ua, some Terra Cotta subjects; Ho¬ 
ratio Stone, n bust of Alex. Hamilton, and 
McDonald, one of John Van IIurkn. 
“ flattie of Gettysburg," by F. A. IVendo 
koth, hangs in tho sculpture room, which is 
not to be regretted by the artist, or viewer. Wo 
who write never saw a battle, not oven the 
smoko from a battery. But we sat down before 
Ibis picture with an idea from Ms general ap¬ 
pearance, that It told a part of that terrible story 
with truth. Home artists paint battle scenes as 
if they hud never seen a shell buret, nor bad any 
idea bow sound looks; for it has individuality 
when it is shot from a field battery. A young 
man was looking at the picture at tho same time 
in such a quiet, leisurely, but appreciative way, 
and had such a manly, reliable atmosphere about 
him, that wo begged bis pardon with, “Is it a 
good picture '{" 
“ Yu*, the best batt le picture I ever saw.” Ho 
had deep, straight-looking blue eyes, and turned 
ids word* woll. 
“Then you know?" 
“ Vos, I was a soldier. Hero at the left, you 
see, is Cemetery Hill, and our raou hold the 
ground up to this point, near which you see the 
rebel Hag. The Confederates arc escaping down 
the valley to the right. In the foreground, on 
the knoll, are Gjsn. Meade and staff. That is a 
capital portrait of Meade. He always sat his 
black horse In that quint way, and he had just 
about so much gray In his beard. Tho Bmokc 
from the battery is very well portrayed, and that 
conical shaped cloud is where a shell has just 
burst. Hero, coming lip tho hill, Ore Confede¬ 
rate prisoners, sullen and of all ages. That 
Yankee waving the ragged Confederate flag, en¬ 
joys his own laurels. In battle, tho men are not. 
in precise regimental lines, us you often may 
have scon them painted." 
“These poor fellow* seem to have been lately 
wounded. Do men's faces grow pallid so soon ?" 
“Yes, sometimes. Bullets make quick work. 
That ono dying has a gold band on bis little 
finger.” 
“ And so has that red-fneed Irishman, hurrying 
so. How nationality crops out! Those are t he 
sanitary commission people al the rear, and tills j 
man in uniform a surgeoH. These are points a . 
home guard would reeognizo." 
“ Yes, better than tho worn look of that. Penn¬ 
sylvanian's knapsack. This battle mtuikcd the 
dcollne of the Confederate stur. Observe how 
that tree back of the General has been shiv¬ 
ered." 1 
“Yes; you were from Massachusetts—and 1 
brave. Thanks for your talk." 
The battle picture was enjoyed. ] 
“Maud Muller," by J. B. Whittaker. t 
“ Maud Muller looked and sighed, All! me, 
That 1 the Judge’s bride might be." ( 
A stream ol' water fulls from an open spout j ( 
from tiie top of a wall Into a eoiTin-shapod 
trough, near which stands a hazel-eyed, euriy- 
haired girl, iti an expectant, attitude. She him 
on a somewhat dilapidated straw hat, with a 
magenta ribbon around tho Crown,a rodsacque, ^ 
Jett open in front, revealing the lad. never bo- 
fore known, that Maud eschewed bodices and 
rollicked in the freedom of a yoked chemise. 0 
Her blue skirt is looped to tho waist at one side, b 
over ii brown petticoat. A tin cup aud rake aro " 
hold in one hand and tne other curves under her ri 
chin. The hay field is some distance back, and 
slill further the church spire reveals (helocality fl 
of the “far-off town." It is astonishing Unit, if «< 
an artist has no imaginative fancy, ho does not Is 
give tho text a thorough reading, and stick to it, p 
in his delineations. 
“ Beulah," by Samvel L. Gerry, illustrates a , 
the tenth stage of Bun van's Allegory, and is a ,,, 
reminder, In an Indirect way, of Cole’s “ Yout h," al 
which is so phasing from its rich, bright color, 
its fairy-like landscape, and fascinating dimness 
of architecture. In “ Beulah " wo have a ma¬ 
terialistic heaven, situated on hills and locks, 
with mosque* and minarots, and pillars and ( . ( 
abodes that looked like Chinese palaces we re- 
member to have traced on our dinner plat#*, 
There are trees and flowers and cascades, pur¬ 
ling, limpid streams, ethcrial angels flying ^ 
through tho air with laurel wreaths, and angels " 
with great wings walking the heavenly fields. 
Why do people paint angels with wings, and 1 
write of angels' wings? We don't believe angels 
arc bothered with such excrescences or out- *'■ 
growth of shoulders. We expect, mansions in H 
heaven, but wo don't believe they will lie built ,fl 
uf ter the model of tho Castle of Chillon. fil 
“Death of President Lincoln," by A. II. 111 
IUtciUe, Is a most mournful covering of con¬ 
siderable canvas, and mther a hackneyed sub- a 
jeot. It contains twenty-eight, life-size portraits, wl 
which arc Well arranged and of natural al t i l iidcs. t l> 
The centra I ligu re, of course, is that of the dyl ug an 
President, whose pallid face rev ive* the saddest a ' : 
memories. Tho surgeon is tuning the waning *a 
pulse, and there Is that in tho men’s facos that. 1 
one would expect to seeat such a time. A proml- ta 
nent defect in tho pict ure is the decidedly me- lit 
laiiie uppearoncoof the bedding, fiueh pictures Di 
may have a service to do, but one had much Gt 
rather think of their beloved President, under in 
pleasanter circumstances. mi 
“The Curb Stone Merchant," by Chas. Hike, ph 
is a small piece of Broadway. A dry goods box “ I 
is iiis counter, the sidewalk his field of operations, yo 
and his stock apples, peanut* and eigars. The 
boy’s lace has a jolly, successful laugh on it, 
and lie can afford to eat an apple at his own 
. expense. 
“Sleeping Beauty,” by John La Faroe, is 
, ttic ugliest, woman asleep that ever roan palnt- 
, ed. The gaudy dressing gown Is perfectly In 
keeping with tho gross mass of flesh that alts 
, snoozing in an easy chair. 
. “ Visit to a Studio," by C. B. CitANCH, is a 
. burlesque with point and pith, capital in idea, 
but not very well executed. A bevy of geese. 
One with eye glasses, Is viewing and commenting 
on a picture, while a monkey, with palette and 
brushes, looks wisely on. A picture on tho wall 
shows a donkey admiring himself in a mirror. 
“On the Carnpagna," by H. C, Blsfuam, 1b an 
Italiuu cattle piece, bold, free and vital. A wide, 
long-horned bull stand* out like a victorious 
warrior, with dilating nostrils, and eyes full of 
fire. A long, low range of mountains defines the 
boundury of tho plain. 
“Lake George," by J. F. Kens Err, is a dreamy, 
hazy waterscape, with velvety hills. The lake 
Is perfectly still, with only a rippling trail from 
the little boat shooting in from the shore. A 
conical island is covered with verdure, and tho 
rucks on the shore are Uchen-clad, water Lillies 
and sedges lift their heads above the water, and 
vines are tangled with woody debris among the 
rocks.] 
“ Thursday Fair of Seville Priests at a Book 
Stall," Is the title of a Spanish figure piece by 
that, priest of Spanish life, Geo. II. BALL, Throo 
ugly priest* under ugly hat* catch up books and 
peer into them, while in front is a Iclasable-foced 
boy with a t ray of luscious grapes on his head. 
Buck of them is a inelungu of people and their 
appurtenances. 
Hanford Thayer has a pret t y painting ol sea 
shells. “The (’lock on tho Stall*" 1* a very fine 
piece of interior painting by Edward L. Henry, 
anti lias also, we believe, some historical or poet¬ 
ical Interest. 
Ames Van W^rt, somoof whose sculpture we 
have noticed, was recently married to Marshall 
0. UOHERTS ’ youngest daughter, and they go to 
Europe. His last work was to make a stat ue(!| 
of his bride's fuvorlteoat and mount, lta la meer¬ 
schaum for his fathcr-In-law. There is nothing 
so Inspiring ns love! 
“The Peace Makers," by G. P. A. IlRALY, on 
exhibition at Putnam's Gallery, gives the scene 
that occurred on board the Kiver Queen on 
James Hiver, when Linc oln, Grant, Sherman 
and Porter eat in council in the littlo cooped up 
cabin. The picture ha* a magnetic effect, draw¬ 
ing! lie spectator into the very interior, listen¬ 
ing to the “ wise men” of the nation. The por¬ 
trait of Lincoln gives him In ids best mood, 
when his genial soul irradiated his homely 
features, 
A. D. Beecher is about to open n studio in 
Chicago. Mr. B. is one of our best portrait- 
painters, and particularly excels ms a colorist. 
As a genre painter he also ranks very high. Bis 
“ Hour of Best," “Coming from Work,” “The 
Blind Harper and Ids Dog,” and others, exhib¬ 
ited id the Academy of Design, New York, at 
different annual exhibition*, were all distin- 
gulsho, for exi-dlont drawing and tine color. 
He lias produced other works, never placed 
before the public, which are marked by rare 
artistic cfl'eets. “ Meditation," «. perfect person¬ 
ification of dreamy thoughtfulness, combine* 
light and shadow in n manner we have nowhere 
Been exoelJod. Many of hla fruit, studies are 
veritable tittle gems of deceptive sernblnnco. 
Mr. Beecher is yet a young man. In manner 
he Is quiet and unassuming, but soeial. He is a 
close student, a diligent, worker; and we shall 
look for still more noteworthy things from him 
in the future. 
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THE EU2VIELAIV GRAPE, 
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Tho Eunieliin has not a vestige of foxlness or any 
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Don It will undoubtedly meet with tho large saleits 
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t he Engraving is a marvel ot artlMl.i beauty, and 
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The Eu me I ii n is the beet grape for red wine. 
Thc Euniclmi must bo in genera) demund. 
And the wood for proiHigatlon will be sold at hich 
rates for several years, a* has been the ease with 
oilier new varmth s of merit. Vines planted Oils 
spring will produce < utopg* during the first two 
l'n Un 'A, 11 "' oi roany. tunes the coat of the 
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nir Vlliinor of tho Ononn — Farrairi.t. .. . J <te-sc r |pUQn of picture 
our Viking of tlic Ocean - Farragut. 
Winn, Me., is said to have tho largest tannery 
In America. It. turns out. 00,000 sides of solo 
leather, anil uses 7,000 cords of hemlock bark per 
annum. 
A nouRLB elevator is to be constructed at tho 
“ whirlpool," below tho Suspension Bridge at 
Niagara Falls, to enable vislteirs to get a view of 
the falls from that point. 
A HARDtlEARTKD Bridgeport, (Ct..,) man re¬ 
cently saw ids landlord fleeced of $100 by gam¬ 
blers on a railway train and in explanation said 
"J wasn't going to warn him. He raised my 
rent $"00 this year." 
Il’ is estimated that Indiana’s coal and iron 
fields cover an area of about eight thousand 
square miles, and that tho greater portion of it 
ls accessible without the expense of shafting or 
pumping in its mining. 
Tne Swedish nobility numbers niue hundred 
and sixty-eight families; of whom sixty-eight 
are counts, one hundred and seventy-two barons, 
and tho rest noblemen merely. Tho total num¬ 
ber Of persons included is about 11,000. 
A YOUNG velocipcdist, not long ago, while 
practicing near tho steamboat wharf in Now¬ 
lin ven, Conn., got undor such headway that ho 
could not stop, and bot h bieyclo and rider went 
off t he dock into tho waters of the harbor. 
A will has Just been declared a l'orgcry in 
Now Hampshire, as (lift paper upon which il was 
written boro tho water-mark of a Holyoke 
(Mass.) company which was not In existence at 
the t ime when the will claimed to bo written. 
An Adrianople (Turkey,) letter reports that 
hydrophobia is raging fearfully in and around 
that town. Up to the date of the letter, no fewer 
than seventeen persons had died, and more than 
fifty had been bit ten. A general panic prevailed 
and the streets of the town were deserted. 
Recently three men had an altercation about 
rt claim In Howard County, Southern Kansas, 
which resulted In the death of all throe. Two of 
them attacked the third for jumping a claim, 
and were shot and killed by him, and (he latter 
also received wounds in the melee, which proved 
fatal soon after. 
Thu crude eoneept ion of a soldier’s duty enter¬ 
tained by people at large previous to tho rebel¬ 
lion is well illustrated by the following story. 
During the first battle of Bull Run a Brigadier- 
General discovered a soldier concealed in a hole 
in the ground, nnd ordered him to join his regi- 
ment. Tho man, looking him full in the face, 
placed his thumb upon his nose nnd replied, 
“ No you don’t, old fellow; you want this hole 
yourself." 
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