GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUgg':•:-XXII - NO;lta - 11-'4;:.', NEW PCBLICA.TICifii‘ In e,nlinary lore the name of 'Fiancatelli. we . :I believe, is that of an honored prophet. The aim pie fact_that_he_was longthe eAeLin the Queen's kitchen is commendation enough wiien we Con alder the gormandizing refinement inherent in iliFßonee"of - Hatiover. His" Modern - Cook "Is , a masterpiece of (in the American ; edition) 585 octavo pages, containing nearly fifteen hundred I separate recipes for every kind of French, Eng- 3 lish, German and Italian dish, whether plain and bourgeois, or artistic and luxuriously ruinous. Prencli exactness in statement makeelds most intricate explanations lucid and comparatively easy to follow. The weights anthrteasurcalErethosp familiar to us. Sixty.t we useful weed-cati aro iriterarwsed. This Manual of a science on which ' hangs all our health _and well-being L has reoched ittl. p, audon ninth editon, from_ which .Messra. - reiereon de. Bros' have repUbliahed a:fur elre'ailer and route Secesslble "Ailed - ea issue • "' HANDBOOK OF FAMILY ENOWLEIMMI; fir. Charles Desliaer; Itla. 1229 Clie:stnatlitreet, has forted into one dense volume of about seven hundred pages the whole art ,and mystery ,of couklug nursing behaving housekeeping and every tiling else that enters into the modern set.: ence of. We, net forgetting the abilitito be at need a cotriplete letter-arritor." The eeonotarde- partment =ld tile epistolary pisparttneet ore • formed of well-known and approaed standar& on these vital themett, while the Kitchen Cabinet Minister-1i the beaming tioyer of Crimean fame. The , volume condemn* snore experience ind , dem than wo.have often seen in so portable! Desibrer publishes, In a rather erne mental - octavo. a - compilation from Bolton, Golditualth /toddle elder naturalists, which the author, Mr. O'Neill, calls "Glimpses `of;-Animated Nature," There are nearly three hundred cuts dispersed through the four hundred and-odd pagesof the work, tbe whole being fronted by a atupendons chrome. la which a gorilla . appeans to be con templative a tort of Alai au Bois 1%-ballet exe cuted by a flamingo u premiere &name, as serted by a company--of.menagerie-beasts at the 1)3e.)4 of the stage or cage. This volume, so gay, and -fo much of Would expand any boy's heart for a Christmas gift. Pettr Pastore byes of Colnutbna, of Washing ton and of Fran klin,bound together into one cheap volume, form excellent family reading for the oung,„ besitita being well adapted for element.. *l7 telltale. The'llinstrationi aro the good old familiar ones, (which aome 'ot" its would but loatblv exchange_ for _better _art,) hearing so marked AA air of having been printed equate well-Deed butcher's block.—Tbe "Columbus' , uud fora fioutlepleeo (we beW to explain to the yontJetul and trapikit reader) isfrom ivpainting by, Parmigiana and.was really txrpied from some. Italiangentleman's,face liourishing about a een- _tory after the great discoverer. Published by Desllver. Prof. Coraon's interlinear translation of Arm. nal boa dui excellence of being au =pied du bkre; every wordless urn ox its -exactocmivaleat t ,the difference between the Lax and English sc:.•;', quence Nana indicated ,by Vire& Gifford's hie of Alveoli! Introduces the efildcm. it b ere:Client fc,r ecliools or titivate study. Published by De ed VOS. - • tstephtit Oirard's Will,neatis printed in octavo, with a short biography, is a kind of civic huison useful for us all, u published by Mr. Desilver. Mr. Desilvei finally obliges nil with a couple. of fresh, large photographs—one.-the old , familiar "Obi" (boy impressing a'ster on kb with the end of his spine, surrounded by a constellation of eggs and apples); the other new tone, and called "The Politicians." ART 1 . 8ii1.9. —A new picture by Titian tuts been discovered in Venice. It formed one of an old collection, in the DOESeaBIOII of the Mocenigo family, .but was in such a condition that the artist's name was not suspected, until the operation of cleaning the picture brought it to light. The subject is Christ, supported by the Cross, and extending bis bands In blessing over the sphere of the earth, The picture is now exhibited in the Venetian Academy. —The monument to Mozart, in a cemetery near Vienna, has been outrageously despoiled, it is supposed by persona who admire the master not wisely but too well. The medallion por trait of Mozart, a candelabrum and an inscrip tion, all in bronze; have been carried off bodily, —The widow of the famous sculptor Dan meeker, beet known in this country by reduced copies of his "Ariadne," died recently in Stutt gart, having survived her husband twenty-seven yews. She biqueathes to the national gallery in Stuttgart all the works of art which formerly belonged to . Dannecker. —A German eihotographic expedition hasgone to Egypt for the purpose of making a complete collection of views of the ancient monuments and inecriptione, The - first attempt in photo graphing subterranean chambers by means of the magnesium light, was made at Memphis, in the buried of M. Marlette, the discoverer Cif the buried city. It was entirely successful,' and the best results are expected when the Same process is applied to the Theban tombs. —The veteran of German artists, the painter John Martin von Rohden,died recently in .ilome, at the age pf ninety-one.. —Count Pleten,the poet,who diedat Syracuse, In SLelly,la to have a monument there. A colos sal bust, in marble, has just been completed, by the sculptor Schiipf, and is now exhibited in the Villa Malta, in Rome—the former residence of the Ex-King Ludwig, •of Bavaria. —The Bavarian painter, Piloty, whose large picture of "Nero" attracted so much attention at the World's Fair in 'London, in 1862, is exhibiting a new.peinting in Berlin. no subject is taken from the history of the Thirty Years' 'War. 'lt represents an abbess and her nuns endeavoring to eave their convent from the irruption of a troop of plundering soldiers. —An unusual number of American artists are spending this winter in Rome. In addition to those who permanently reside there-the sculp tor* Story, Rogers, Miss Stebbins, Harriet Hos- ; mer,- Mies Foley and !dozier; the paintersiTerry, Tilton, Buchanan Read Vedder, Coleman, Wild and Rotchkiss—there will be a large accession to the number of temporary residents. Church and Bleretadt; Gifford and McEntee; Yewell, Loop and other painters and Lanni Thompson; sculptor,have taken sudice for the whiter. Long fellow and Cyrus !held, with their families, will also form part of the American colony there.-- Pentium's. . - lioneon Gnaws/ purposts to write during the year 1869, an elementary work on Political if,conomy, wherein tho policy of Protection to Nome Industry will be explained and vindicated. SIN work will drat be given to the public through successive issues of Tan New , TOME Taxstrsv, and will appear in all its editions—Dan', 1810; 13aact-Wonmor, 44; WZIKIX, et per annum. —The Spanish Episcopal bench is said to be preparing to celebrate a grand religious act, by the assembling of a General Council at Toledo to deliberate on the new situation in which the Church is placed by the revolution, and by the proposed proclamation of the principles of reli gious liberty. It is proposed that each bishop should afterwards communicate to their elergy, In a sort of provincial synod, the decision which may be arrived at. —Paris doctors are puzzled by a new disease, writers' palsy, which they ascribe to• the use of steel pens . t _ , ' LI ' . ‘ ''''' . ' :,....4,L1:.......: .---*' - .,...4. - , , ,,-...--. .„ -,---:,-,:-' ' , I, - --,' ',. : --, ~ .7- '-' ' , i' ' - -'' - -, • • ~ ''"- '''--, 'H'''' , "''' ,-- '' *' - ' - ' - '. - ".: .-.- .„ 1, .., - ~.,-. ' • ..- i-,i . - ...: . 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It is, principally . ; situated Upon three "ridges or hills running almost parallel,_ _and from its , elevated - - points 7 extensive, ; varied and views. , Th rough the centre; wild ravin e, runs a' eep, wild ravine, wilt& Separates tee Old; ,from the New Town. and gives place to the cola bined railway and etagere , This valley or ravine once contained alike 'calla the Nor' Loch, and; was conzidered'great deferinity, but has been eonverted'into,beintifur -pleasure grounds called Prinetss Street Gardens, and crossed- at ten • different places by large wide bridge& and mounds Princes street'le the principal and finest street „. „ in the city,-endirunis parallel with this valley . the New-Tows - aide; it to a mile in length, quite straight, and bas a southerly exposure. At the west end of this etreeknn bold, rocky prod.' pice, , stands Edinburgh Castle'with its time-worn; battlemente; at the east end,, - Cutter/ Hill with its Nelson "and iithiffiribilurlitilleFerrils - iiiiiii side , ; are - located' the principal - batch,Pfid7fieleTst stores, - ; while on the,' south side - aro' the - Gardens Sir Walter Scott's monument, and several beautiful buildings devoted to art and science- The:views frign Carlton IEII or Edinburgh Castle are de eidtdly-fine,and from either, a bled'h,eye view can - be bad of the _whole city and surrounding country • "Traced-like a Imp, the latdscape lies In enituted beauty stretching wide; There Pentland's green acclivities; There Ocean, with its azure tide; There Arthur's Seat; and gleaming through Thy Southern wing, Dunedin blue! Witile in the orient,:Lammer's daughters, A distant giant range, are seen, • North Berwick Law, with cone of green, And Bass amid the waters." • • ' - At night, from theee - elevateripointe;the city appears to be beautifully illuminated because of the houses of the lower chefs being so high and densely inhabited; each room having its ocen 'pante,' with the necessary - - , In point of architecture the city pres ents a di eidetily-llevoillegAppearance, Whether weregard the almost Milted phimaeyiametricel pa:icon/Ana of tbe - streets of the New Town, or.the. wild, 'cranky and picturesque disorder o the streets and buildings of the Old. ' I The public buildings are not overwhelming in their magnificence, but more Charactedzed by cbaste design, , rnany .of :.them, adhering to old etyles of arebitecture, such ate Doric and lonic, having had for , their architect Playfair; and, as with - Many of the houses and other ;building!, are built of a dense Atone, which. ie .44 rOich .; e; 69 1. Ahsorhentebareeter as to retitle a clean sitipettrehee for along time. "Tne color is tot white enough to glaringly offend, nor sombre enongh to be gloomy. The lionises of the poorer clues are tall and ungainly, but pletureNutelook ing, being eight ta-oleven stories . high, and let cut flats or stories and rooms—on the tene ment principle. The same house Is owned eby, E 0 many landlords that it is impossible for the .goverignent to get rid of them, and they still stand as they have stood for several hundred Sears, breeding crime, misery,disease and death. The city , la _getting rid of them one after , an o ther,but she needs a Napoleon to remove them all from the face of the earth at once. To an Ameri can,these tenement houses appear to be the only drawback to the beauty and healthfulness of this' otherwise beautiful and healthy city. ' They are so tall that the sun rarely, if ever. gets into their cola, damp eosins and alleys, and the women and children look pale, feeble, and morally and men tally depraved. Still, under able health officers, these places are twice daily policed, and rendered' as comfortable as bad ventilation and overcrowd ing can make them. ; _.* . • The gteat charms of ,Effinburgiewhieh few or no cities of our great lend can boast of, are its : monuments erected tq peat and good MOD, who have made their mimes and their country and city both historic and celebrated. There are upwards of eighteen in all, and among the best is the one to Sir Walter Scott (situated in Princes street) which was designed by a young architect named George M. Kemp, who died Jest before the struc ture was completed. It is a Eye:n(lM Gothic tower, 200 feet , high, very elaborate, having a stair of 287 steps , conducting to the top, from bleb tb ere is a gt)od view. Underneath the can-' opy is a statue of Scott, and the principal niches' occupied try statues of some of Scott's princi pal characters, such as Prince Charies,Mag &ler riks, Lady of the Lake, George Heriot• and .the Last Minstrel. I confess to a great weakness for; statues or monuments , erected to those who hare rendered themselves great, their country cele-, brated, and benefited their fellow-men. Soyalte 4 has done much in this direction to perpetuate royalty; and how much more necessary -should it be for republicans, • who filo bYthe will- of the people governed, to do likewise to perpetuate, a love for free government and veneration -- for; thee° who have by their assistance made their country'known and respected. ; There @Mould not be a city in our land which has' not its statues of Washington and Lincoln, with a email-fund once a year to.decorate them with immortelles and evergreen. Napoleon does this; aid why?—to perpetuate and keep alive in the French people a love for the magical name Na-' poleon, a name which la now thoroughly iden-• tilled with French greatness and unity. Philadelphia has had many citizens besides, who might thus have been bonored,and our plain, Squares and parks,.rendered much More attrac tive and profitable to those of , our successors who will some day be expected to work out the problem of free government. Still we have made. some progress, as our national cemeteries will , be lasting monuments to testify to ,the devotion of a loyal, people. I conceive %still greater lee-; eon could ba learned—one brelithing more of peace and fotgiveness—at the same time serving as', a warning—lf our rebel dead Were collected in those cemeteries, and on their monuments writ , . ten, "Sacriticed, battling , to destroy free govern- , meal." I am not alone in adch a wish ' as I know no instance during the whole war where f 1 medical officers made. a diatinetion between 1 Union and Confederate soldiers 'after the great? leveller. "Death" had set his icy stamp 'upon I then'. There are two curious old streets running par allel with Princes street in the old town called amongst° or" High and Cowgate streetern High was once considered the finest street in Europe, - but itsgreatness has departed.. ;It leads directly from the Castle to Holyrood, and upon it are situated some of the principal baildings and reel- 1 dences or . 1116 old-time people. A few of the' quaint old boluses still remain, which will carry one Wl* to 'the time wheu they, were: inhabited by the 'wealthy and fashionable of the Court of the Stuarts; nOW,_ however , generally occupied by the poorest and moat destitute. On this street Is situated the houses of the old reformer, John, Knox, David, Hume, Boswell, and many others,' making the walk from': the Caatle to Holyrood one of the greatest interest to the antiquarian,' and showing also the:mutability of all things earthly. Here also still „ stands old St. Gillees Church, dating away back to 1259, and although unfortunately metered, yet showing traces of its ancient curious , Goth ic 'architecture. This old , relic has witnessed some of the moat memorable scenes in the history , of Seethed and from its -pulpit John Knox madeso'me of his hardest hits against Popery and the unfortunate Mary Queen of Ocoee • Ha ancient Cemetery C 01141.45 the re- ---- PHILADELPHIA, VEDNESD.AY, otugmßE4 'l6, 1868.=-TRI'PLE SHEET. mains of ninny notable men; and what is very` curious, the. ,equestrians statue - of Charles IL owing to oomtrt change, is supposedlWottitid., directly, over the'grave:of John Knox. , Butr. we will • leave Ormongatn, street, 'assuring' the render .that- "My Annt , Margaret's • Mirro" - and Chronicles of theCanongate will beread with a much more thorough:- zes,t 'after a day's wsik • frotn.Edifiburgb 7 CantlelififfelyrocA:7oanesegik) 10_6lb:toted on one'of: those ridges already allwted top while Cowgate street, is In' the vallejtranning 'Parallel with it, and 41110 extending from . Holy rood Palace to the old graiso•market near Edin burgh Castle. - This street , ist crossed', by - two bridges., celled George IV. and South Bridge. A view from either is: as near an .acqualatanPe.aB I you wish, to make with • ibis narrow, .thickly-pe pillared alley. These bridges are nprrards•of I 100,fra above the 'level of thit 'street, and , far above .the roofs - of - its etirionsly-balln , honserr. - 'The view, bars been: compared to a peep. into the "nether world," and-a walk along this well pu lierd but_ pestilential will -clearly demon strAte,how easy it is for, intemperance ,to make -01 s section a beiL I:.Cowgate,ln` the reign of - .klieg V.,wass itui resi dence of the elite of decalandi now the ,haunt of derders in second-band-furniture and old mlothea —the moot miserabks street in; all Edinburgb,and is said to be the raostdenael3s, overcrowded street in the .w tole world. Borne of the „descendants t of decayed old families continued to live in this • street; ntil a•TerY recent petiod. and their dwell- Ingo - were known -bye their;_large -brass door? knockers and whitewashed steins., The, old brass, polished door knoeitera are_ still , a moat cottopienono object of attraction on the doors of the better class or people,and eye them a - good old time-honered appearance • ' X. PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL SOCLETY. Moralists-F. nat Adapted to the trnited _l•ltsst,esXata!faugst 0n5!....01t„ I he_ ilittsto richt hipesety, or to,ontroy . At a stated meeting - Of - the: of Pennsylvania, held Monday , evening, December 14th; 1868,11Cliarl4 - J;Luirens„'Esq., - dissociate ' Editor of The;`t-Atchitecturalitellew," read a pa- ber on "HyttAtunr, AS ADAPTED TO TIES,UN/TED rsers.s,"^ of which, without confining ourselves k t l ictir_lo_the. order of -tho EsslsYr - Ive - g/To - th snore salient points. Mr. Lukens coinmenced by remarking: That, in the general acceptation themost, useless branch of human knowledge is hei_ai dt y; in its blazoned array, held in contempt by the astute, but ; tricky and selfish Laths XL of fttneo, as-the "trumpery of red, bine and green;" and 113 Its genealogical aspect, snecringly chancterizvi by Voltaire, as --"the science- of lop's-with long_ niemiirlegf 'St' in esseuttaL symbialleal lure, necessarily used by the nations -of the earth; and, consequently, destined to last as long as there should'exist communities of men. One of the: so-erdrell most videos,- then, and one of the , confessedly , most useful selena.s, Herr aldry and Seamanship, are peculiar, in. having eack an outrliranching nomenclature, far more coherent, systematic, _and 'complete, than any other branches of -human acquisition. Both have their fanttutticalltleai, but, in she main, the mind at aticeraaßt their PriteiPlaar alltl:ritaltui their technicalterms. _ - In Its essenM , Heraldry is almost entirely em bodied in chromatic pictorial symbols ; , and—by the eimple, rapid presentation. and definition. of several hundred, illustrative shields—it would be quite possible, in the cosine of a -single two. bouris' - zitting,.to give ,those present, previously totally, nimequaluted with- 14 an exact apprehen sion of its essentials.bet not a comprehension; the later depending.upon ;a retentive memory and a heen judgment. practiced in the subject; whereas the fonder 'would spring from the general intelli gence of the, audience.- - Bat much less time beneenpltsl. • • - - The use or Heraldry is the formation of flags, signals, 1.c., for the purposes of commerce, pa rade and war—which must be instantly recog nizable, an far as the eye can reach.. The 'essence of • Heraldry consists in extreme simplicity and distinctness of figures, and sharp color contrast. Whenever these attributes are wanting, the device is of allure. Amongst the heralds, White, (Argent,) and Yellow, or Gold, (or,) are called Ilia -rats; and Red, (Gules,)' (A zurit) (190/e,) Green, (Vert, or Binople,) purple, (Purpure,) Orange, (Ten4,)' and Crimson, (Stinguine,) are termed Cesare; but the isart three are, little used. ; In addition they have certain conventional, but simple arrangements of, figures and, colors--of which the checker-board is a good 'Popular in-; etesace—knonla its Funs.- The Wick surface, either of, a shield or Aim is detioniinated the Field; and any object upon it is ' designated ass Charge. As, by rule, Metal cannot be charged upon Metal. Color upon Color, or Fur upon Fur, all, who are able to distinguish colors by , name, will see, that' whatever is thus conformably devised, must not only be very agreeable to vision, as a detached ensign, but also very distinct: Objects are also allowed in the natural colors, then known by the word Proper, and—as a shield can have no proper color—always relieved upon White or Yellow; but these are never so success ful, fer the purpose, as the arbitrarily tinctured figures, because, be it remembered, the intent is not'to make pictures, buteymbole: If any one pt these colored symbols or coats of-arms, is devised heraldically, heralds have a concise and certain technical method of de scribing it, so that any one, acquainted with the science, can, without the slightest pictorial as sistance, reproduce it exactly, even if he has ever seen or heard of it before, simply from the description. Herulds have, also, an arbitrary system of lines and dotb, whereby they can perfectly convey, to the initiated, in an, uncolored engraving, the exact colors of any armorial bearing. Any one of ou, who—by a fortuitous combination of lucky vents—is the happy possessor of a silver half- dollar, will observe r that the chief, or ;upper straight band of the shield on the breisat of the American eagle, •is engraved in horizontal lines, whereae, some of the stripes i or paks,,,are en graved in perpendicidar lines, and others are left plain. This, if not a mere die-sinker's convent once, would seem to be at least accidental; but ,such is not the case. To the educated eye, these lines, and these clear spaces, say, as clearly as if in words: for the chief, or band, blue; for these lined paks, or stripes, red; and these unengraved pales are white. When' arms are merely sketemd, heralds make small dots in the various parts; and run single lines thence, out of the shield, to a word, or an abbreviation, on the margin, noting the,tincture; or, If the space Is large enough, the lett& signify ing the tincture is placed upon the object itself, as A. for A read, O. for Qr, and' G. for Gala. Tricking is the technical name foe this mode. There should, then, always be at least a few . gentlemen educated in hereditary Heraldry, be- cause the old need "of distitignishing between per , son and person, in monarchical countries, gave the variety of figure, posiffon,,ilke., so available now, for .National, State and amoelational pur poses,• although personal heraldryr - Xhould never, and will never be of any influence in our republic, save as historical, for the - nation, and annidiatic, or reminiscentisfi; forittriamilies. The gentlemen managing the American Revolu tion, were, of course, measurably familiar with Heraldry. Hence, almost.all_the arms of the ori ginal thirteen States are well devised, as to figure that is. they are dktinef. But, from the days of 'the Continental 'Congress to this instant, there have been gradually increasing failures, in de vising the arms of the admitted States, because, at first, for a while; the inventing movers in, the legislature were less and leas informed upon the subject, and, latterly, they seem to have known nothing whatever, helplessly supposing a coat.of arms to be a mere crowd of confusedly jumbled figures, or else a landscape hopelessly undeci pherable at any moderate distance. To add to the amazement,' there - semis - to be' only tradition for the tinctures, or, popularly, colors, of the .armorial bearings of the old thir- - teen States. • It ie time something effectual is done, under „competent advisement by statute , - through the different legislatures: ; In the original States cor recting and confirming the figures, so they can be described heraldically as well as popularly, in the several institutory or confirmatory acts; and in the admitted States; while retaining as tar as, OUR lElitiLE COUNTRY. poseible; the ideas typified, reforming away all the avornallui nod excrescences. Troia J140...1Mt. itorieiel Society of Pennsylvania Should appoint an Honorary Committee of Con ference, to communicate, npon the subject. with - the different - other-- Historical "`Societies eff' the Union,-with the various State= governments, Rte. On this committee should.be appointed such ex perleneed and competent heralds as Milt= fifs'erib and ...Robert Lfolet', Jr.," Eseis„' and 'suit amateurs as Ed ward Armstrong, Esq., and others. he essayist'himself. as an innovator, long ratta ils? with the tinderlying principle% and pretty 'war grow - deli inn -- the practice or r ry would esteem it an inestimable, opportunity and apipb honor to be one. - Such a-Conittlittee. Or concurring Associatirin - of CoMmitteee—at once of much public benefit—would ultimately 'give the world a standard authorityttpOn the abject - in their Final Report Hew stands the case now? 'The best informed gentlemen in 'the Community can tell you nothing -with certainty.as to .the coat of arena of their own 'States: - A competent' herald-painter gets au 'or der for's m 'col. , 'court-house „panel, or a regimental standaid,.and does not knoW where to look for the authentic data. And the iteintinistration of a Elate cannot point to the establishing resolution of the arms of its commonwealth.- In fine, everything connected with the subject Is -abso lutely at sea. * ' The_Librarian (liv. Mr. Shrigley) gave w very fufireport of the contributions made to the,"So ciety since the November Meeting. - Among the objects of particular interest Is a very tine old elock, made in Scotland; and presented' to the Historical Society by Messre. Conover and James, of Orford Lodge. an eicellent"piete cif. lasorkmansbip, and keeps time very correctly. Could the members of the Society- Secure a more commodious hall, easier of access, they would very soon have one of the'most prosper ',ems literary Societies In Philadelphia. --The decease of George .W._Pahuestirek-was-an pounced, and the Council.was requested to pre pare an obituiry notice of the deceased, who had been for many,years an Influential member of the Society; , The meeting was then adjourned, Dr. Coates ?: having ocenpied the Chair, - the President' being necessarily absent. TUB FINIS ARIEV. Berlin; I Freacoes; Its Dinfosamia. Having previously given a good deal of atten tention to the interesting devolopment of mural art in Berlin, under . Bing Ludwig, we, should scarcely feel justilleAl in omitting the following intereatiag summary farnished-by, a contributor to the Baturday,Revieii4 It gives an interesting tableau of _the results achieved by a modern Pericles determined to make an Athens of his capital and stock it with Phfdunes. , BERLIN A 6 A 3 ART VOCI7;. Prussia is ambitious In arts as In arias. and Berlin, the capital of the new German Confeder ation, has determined to make: herselfthe'great art centre in Northern Ettope. The:eity, singu larly. 111-situated for beauty or picturesque effect. hes done her best to supply what • nature denied: "Cuter der •Linden." though unable, like our own itsgent - streeleito withstand either weather or criticism. may be accepted as a somewhat pksaint art compilation of shops, trees, and cafes. Berlin evidently has been gob up as a show; she has done much in — the way of facading; we arts are , on • public promenade in her streets, sad are. drawn tip with military dignity and , t precision in her open • squares:- —the..gods, including of course - Frederick. the Great; defy the elements, and in winterdlinerra, snowelad as a peasant in Iceland, sustains ' the' dignity of classic art in shivering stew. We incline to think that modern art—or, rather, modern architecture—has In Ber lin missed its way; it has turned its back con tem ptuonsly on old Gsrman nationality in order to coquet with the Italian Cinqueeanto ; and the offspring of the alliance is pseudo-elastic corrupt Renaissance, and a hodgepodge mixture, the polyglot of all styles. Thus, naturally, people of true art instincts prefer su ch nnpretendmg and nnspbilt towns as Dresden. Bamberg and Narem- /TS MUSEUM . Berlin is more happy in what she has collected than in, what sbe has created; the contents of her Museums are of more worth than the buildings themselves. The Ohl and New Museums, to their general scheme and arrangement, have de servedly been held as models; the chronological classification instituted by Dr. Waageu obtains wide approval; and the catalogue' prepared by the erudite Doctor screed as a precedent to Sir Charles Eastlake and Mr. Worn= for the pre sent admirable catalogue of our own National Gallery. Perhaps in no city can the systematic study of the schools of painting, and the history of art generally through its monuments, be prosecuted with greater advantage than in Berlin. Strangers are 'usually struck with the treatment of the Egyptian antiquities collected by Lepsius at the instigation of Bunsen. The building has been designed ar.d decorated in keeping with its con tents; sarcophagi, mummies, inscriptions, &c., ale dispelled within temples and tombs. Analo gous modes of treatment were, in the. Interests of popular instruction, rather than of historic truth, adopted, It is well known, at Bydenham; but Mr. Owen Jones frankly admits that "the most per fect specimen of Egyptian art we remember to have seen is the tomb which Dr. Lepsius removed from the neighborhood of the Pyramids, now in the Berlin Museum." In other departments also the mural decorations are made to serve as consonant historic background. Thus in the "Salle Omegas" are "Peintures do antraille par MM. Schirmer, Blermann, Behmide,•Graeb et Pape;" among the scenes depicted are "Tombeau' en Lycle," "Syracuse avec, FAcropole et to Temple do ?dinerve," "Egine avec to Temple, de Jupiter," "luterleur de FAcropoje Athimes," "Inttrieur du Temple deJupiter a Olympe,". "Atilnes avec fAcrepole." Of course these temples are painted in great measure on conjecture, and, like the various reconstructions of the Roman Forum, eau only he accepted as, approxi mations to truth. Still the lane is gratified, and the intellect,at least err, -on people, cannot but be instructed; je t , res these works may not be of any very high order, but the. scenic effect gained is striking, and th art is sufficient for the occasion. It were futile t recommend the adoption of like mural decora tions in the British or the Kensington Museum's, simply because we have no artists in England - by whom they could be carried oat. The miserable failure of the ~wall-paintings at Westminster has, we tear, put a- Moo for many a year to any national or. municipal schemes of mural paint ing. In Germany frescoes have stliod fairly well, audit Is hoped that the new "wasserglas" process will stand still better. In Berlin wall-paintings have found their way even into private dwellings, as in Italy there are trained artiste, rapid and certain of hand, masters of pictorial and decors effeetywho,will in short space sad at small coat cover the sides of a room or a corridor with bold panoramic compositions. Of a higher order far are the greed Berms of pictures we will now describeta- - therwall-puinlhogs -- executed - lw"water glass", by Kanlbaeh, in the "Treppeuhater of the Berlin New Alstmum., KimLaken. Wilhelm von Kaulbach, in his youth a scholar of Cornelius in the school of Ousseldorf,has now, at the mature age of sixty-three, won, the very highest position: among living paihtere. 'The artist's studio is at this moment once more in the Academy of Munich,. but his greatest achieve ments are In Perim. The New Museum in that city, of which we have already spoken, contains a vast "Treppenhatts." On the "Staircase" Kaulbaeh, in emulation of NaffaeUn in'the Stanza of the Yatiesn, has developed a great pictorial - scheme, which in its ambitious range, claims to illustrate the histOry of the world, and to shadow forth the destiny of the human race. Twentyrfour trgraviegs of these•large, and complex composi tions are now before us. The pictures them- Seivee, obith we have known while in execution, we have recently examined carefully in their finally complete condition. The whole work has been ekborated slowly and studiously, through the' heal years of thepainter's life; thus, as far back al the Paris "Exposition Universelle do 1811 , 5" w ft tound nine cartons for hoseweal.paira,-. Inge, while in the last g.reat Wrench Exhibition Ithe ,cartoon for the: "Era of' the Reformation" gained for Bavaria Its . .onet "grand. prin.". 'lris impoesible, withlin the comprise at our command, to do justice to these grand compositions exe- . cuted in "water glees:" We •• may, -however, Say 'bat the painter's object has been—in a series of six compositions*. • each some thirty feet long, ' find' &meriting Over one: hundred • figures; above file-size—to seize , upon , salient turning- points and to elucidate certain. epochs. In the world's, progressive :civilization. ' The epochs . chosen are the "Tower of Babel," "Era •of the Glean," the • "Destruction •of Jernsa lcni.". --the - "Battle of the liens," the , Crusades," and the -of the Refer:- motion." Knulbach's• free• and easy reading ,of history, and the hatitudinarlaniam of his creed, have in Germany given occasion to considerable cavil ' - The best apcliogv is that=the artist ex- - clUslvely the artist; ,that, hews, not the divine, to teach dcetrinee and dogmae; but, like Steak apeare or Goethe * . the dramatic-poet,' to seen in the world's history moble characters, stirring ac . than ands grand scenic:: situation's.. Ra.ffaelle, It.la be/leved, %in.,' the composition .of the "The ology," the • School of :Athens," the "Feeds," &s: accepted gladly ideas from the learned men of his time; we know that our own palittera and rculptors who , attempted •the decoration of toe Houses ofi Parliament were :aesisted by• a Royal Commission of which such men as. Lord Macau lay,"Mr. Hallam and Lord Mahon were members. ir wollid - be - interesting - to - know - what. ttelpOt _ any, Kanibach sought frost the learned ',Profes sors, of tbe Berlin University. Athenian artists were accustomed to hold close intellectual relationship - with' the poets and _phlioso. pher; of their • iperlogi, ' . and Kaulbach, who in a great measure is a self-made man, Could ill afford to sever his art from the critical acumen and , profound research which in Germany have served to elucidate, and sometimes to undermine* thfavery histdric,-"Aras7 which the • painter, has portrayed. Yet, fortunately, it, is-posaible for tor these pictures to be _poetically : true,' though historically false .: Thus Thus it may, be agreeable to the: eye and conformable to decorative ende -that •such compositions • shOuld be nicely balanced and evenly - distributed; yet it is hard to conceive that historic epochs: such as he-overthrow-at -Babel*---the-Tecitations --of- Homer. or the preaching of Luther, could have invariably been enacted in a elide. Painting in a eirele,__lllce a rguing in a etrele, cannot but iniolve fallacies. . T The art of Kaulbach, in short, may poseiblyhe Imaginative' poetic, academic, claesic, and a thousand great things; beside. But this one thing is certain, that the manner le eminently Artificial. The same charge, and netwhellywithout Jette4n, has been made against the more elaborate and pea/Ably overforced comp:mittens of Raffaelle. The works of Kanlbach beyond-doubt suffer undir.the •Watt of strong conviction; the artist pays the inevita ble penalty of serving ' not two, but twenty, masters; he seeks.to be all things to all men. And the;, consequence Is that these marvel ions and matchlees creations , in Berlin would" tall satisfyGreektiotthetimepf.Phidies,worild not seem rhonest and earnest to devout spiritual painters of the middle ages,and do nokcoininend themselves by actual truth and iridlvidiality, the naturalistic schools which in Germany are row rising to dominion. jiaulbaph,. in fact, is universal to• a fault; painters:; more partial and less prolific have greater strength;in narrower spheres. We wish it were poseide to give. here an ado gnat° Idea of these impoeing mural decorations, the crowning , product of.,':the. moderin,German school. We have already" ;.spoken; of the • general • Idea ,• • • or, • conception, and we have incidentally indicated the • art character °C AI e work and the position . which that weak has made for the painter himself. A few words may fitly be, added on these latter points. We would say that' Kaulbaeb, hi his toric styles, stands on frontier-lines between claesic territories, Renaissant epochs, and mod ern times. Thus the offspring of the painter's imagination is hybrid. A Venus from his pencil is a. iashioneble coquette, Fudicizia a courtesan; his cherubs are Cupids, his Chrism Apellos, his Madonnas Junes, his Jehoyakts Jupiters. Renee it will :easily ~b e understood that the great German has , slight „claim to the of a religions artist; herein he &fere from the great Italian painter to whom other wise he is akin, for belt • remembered that Raf ladle, even, after the. sear. when-:Ruskin tells of his apostacy,, peinted the divine "San Slew." Kablbach's genius, indeed, is sometimes even the converse of actions and sedate; Into the midst • of historic acenes.the, most Beltran, the painter is accustomed to thrust a humor essentially Ger man, and absolutely grotesque. So indoddiable , indeed is the comic sense within his mind, that the broad farce of "Reineke Fuchs," which some hold to be the artist ' s:master product, he would not'scruple to place on Olympus or. the Mount of Tranefiguration. It must be confessed that the ' ancient ; Greeks and the middle age, Ital ians did . sot permit themselves • steak license. But cosmopolitan Kantbach aspires to • eomething more universal than Mtehael Angelo' or Da Vinci; his art is at once Cisalpine and Transalpine, it is at home with Albert Durex and Martin Schorr, it migrates to distant lands, :it; passes our English Channel in kindred with Ho- . earth, and Leech, in fellowship with Chaucer and Shakespeare. Yet it is no injustice to add that ' . Kaulbach, in thus distending himself to . univer- sality, and striving to be the equal of the groat est of• men collectively, incurs the danger of be coming less than tho least individually. finch in ; fact has always been the penalty paid by eclecti cism. THE NEW MUSEUM The Treppenhans in the New Museum aims, in common with the most pretentious of Germsn revivals, to gain united force through the com bined master arts of architecture, sculpture, and painting. The structure is designed expressly to receive the decorations, and consequently erne meat holds its due place in the concerted whele, and performs just its ~appointed function and, no more. , The architecture Is perhaps rathernierte mongrel than we could desire; it is of the Beattie and illicit school of fechinkel, who, like Sleaze in Munich, has : done ranch ,bothto snake and to mar the city surrendered to hie genies. The polychrome applied , to this architeethnie ,bialy case is not, like that in. Munich, Byzantine or medireval, but is rather allied to *lassie and Pompeian, styles. lodeed, .the single.and subsi diary figures which %tufted; has made to float on - a field of chocolate are directly Pompeian in color as in treatment.. As usual, ,the ,figures on gold grounds tell best decorativelY. Altogether the coloring is a success, though, as usual in like Ger man revivals, he relations show more of science and hard intellect than of intuition and emotion; the tones are apt to be crude, hot, andyet repel knUy dead and acad. IBM, as we have indicated, the whole composition, u if under a strong effort of - the reason and the will, has been forced into ,a not nnplesushig propriety and agreement. , Tux. WATAIII•OI4II3B METHOD. It might be intereetleg, did space permit, to, discus thaetiative merits fresco and of that; new process of " , was ter-friss" of width Kanibiatt is the most experienced manipulator. It , is un derstood that both Ifenitetch and Plioty give to - the new Method e preference over the-old, while other German artists still adhere to the_ auctent historic mode. It is our belief that each mate rial has its specific advantages ; fresco possesses more brilllance, transparency,purity; water-glass, , with a certain opacity and blackness, as exemp lified under Iteulbach's treatment in Berlin, gains In compensation , rears detail and finish, more untidy in light and shade, snore of ramose , plierlc dietetics and aerial perspictive. Nat it is scarcely an injustice to • say that, while, KC} Italian "fresco puro" may be compared, to the" best old wiudowpainting t , thegie "wasserglas!' works may be likened to windows of the new Munich school. It will be .rememberied that on the failure of frescoes in the House a Parliament, Mr, ' Idacilse; at the instigation; of the - Prince Consort. went to Berlin to lear n from m .Kaulback the newly invented . process. :" Ton years ego he : ' reported to "the Commissiouers of Usable Arta": that be had closely inspected "five largo and; otherwise notable subjeete," also "colossal alle gorical greet) figures, painted in- the new mate., trial, and Awing their permanency to having been: imprergated with wator-glase. Of those works, it may indeed safely--be said, that, they form a Barka , of F. THIBEISTON:,...PabIiskti. PRICE THREE OESTS. the noblest embellishments of one of ttici•argud— est bulls which _architecture hris as yet dedleatird to the' development of akindred art; .and herd„ too, is to be vie Wed Perfection hcW, ecendently imposing are the. results -whett, the, two arts arc harmoniously combined." This tribute from the great,mural opanateria England to his German brother in • arts is generous, and scarcely Over-colored.. We may add • that , the pictures which Mr:, Maclise saw in prucesa of painting in the autumn of 1858, are now, in the autumn 0f.1868,in perfect inissertration; those first.' execnted.are as Sresh as the most receut We can not here - enter into , further details, and would'. only in conelmilomeay that the prayervWhiehlhe• devoted inventor of..t.tvassergiss'ltittertgilithnit - - before his death seems to hatter obtained ,,. asi answer in l'aulbaeh's completed work. "'I offer, wrote D r,_ von_ Puchs,_!9,o_ mv_Trianda.mianv whom assisted Me materially in my, difficultbuy, my- oeep-telt gratitude at the conclusion oil my isbors. • But, ' , ,before all, I thank God; , whccs. Oonely allowed - his'weak and aged serVant4di finish the.precedinginvestigatilin of water glom audits application, , no.far•that others may htdid, upon tbe foundation I have laid: To the or all good be- thanks for all joya and eufferbigh experienced! May lila, blessing be - „uptial the work!"_ _ _ _ ART ACTIVI r. TY hr. ,artraN - - , Berlin, in other directions than those above in— dicated shows an activity and enterprise 4 In-- the arts worthy- her position as- the capital of _ United Germany: —= Bince - oniprevloutsvisitsiber -- vast cartoons of Cornelius have been massed Ina thrown into'an exhibitiOn. Rea Towns Gaiety - ore collected specimens of Modern7Gertuanr•art; and during the.present- autumn , thero'has='-been held in the Royal Berlin Academy—which =offers banging space three times as great as our ' own Academy—an exhibition of morsithau atlioussn. works representative of the present aspect of the - divers schools - of Germany:. Berlin, indeed , •.- • .notwithstanding---.---mtWo-- • sary supremacy, has =beont _ . and_ stiff is,, et strong focus of • art labor—an art workshop= Os. mous for its erudite products and - critical actinic* - even more than for its originative power. -• The scene of Weagen's and Eugler's life labiate was "laid in. Berlin; and now Grimm, the writer of the latest and fullest memoir of Michael And VtroitirainTc - whvbar m - axlelilmselt studies on Holbien, sustain the reputation tong enjoyed by the city for critical research.: -in not another capital in Europe -is-- there-closer rbei-- procity between art:creation and.:critietsmi - trsi: tween ark products and art philosophies. • The inlet George li•hittuteiptmhot. The;Elt. Patit : (ttlaiteecita):PAiiniteh;: of ** inst.. contains the fellowing..akpreetailia - tiptioliv_ of lamented citizen or Pktiletlelphiet.. . Among • the_ victims of ' the , ill-fated ' 'steamer United eitates, which burned at Madison, Ind., ors Friday night last,i are Dr George' W. Falun:stook and daughter,.of Phlladelphisio . . t It is with the keenest of, sorrow we pea this item, ono which will sadden-Owl:warts*/ numbers - - of our citizen's, who became acquainted with; the deceased during hie sojourn in this city in 18664,,.. and highly estimated him for his nobility of ~ t rue- .- actor, his generous and liberal diaposition,.and his modest and amiable bearing. As an ecquaint ance remarked this. morning:, "I neve r , - in my life anew a more thorough gentleman in every particular"—a: testimonial to dde worth. whiedi will be Warmly asaentesLtoby all who • werestak fern:Mate es:to.knowhina,_ .'.:- . 1-, . Mr. Fahnestock was a eon. Of the weiblenowen B. A: Fahnestock, , of Philadelphia. who awned a large fortune and died in 1862. ; He was bora Sept. 23, 1823, at Chatnberabrag, and was Wafts. quently 45 years of age. He was married, in 1844 to Miss Grace Ensep Of. this union only one child ,was born—Miss Grace E...Fahrtestoels, vdti4 at the age of, 20 years, met her, death, as above stated. All of Mr. Faluiestock's brothers and sis ters aro now dead, and • his aged mother alone survives of all the family. Mr. Fahnestock was carefully educated, and is every respect was an accomplished gentleman.. Inheriting great wealth Sean to be at least half a million dollars) be bad little or no taste for plea% sure, the empty show of wealth, and ostentatious display of fashion. His taste ran in a:more use-, ad direction:s :From his bOyhoed hohad an ala , sorbing passion tor, , study .andsantiquarian- pur suits, and in them . he: spent his;', whale leisure •time. In ".the .!: ,puranit ~ of .!sa old fossil or curiosity—a , rare , pamphlet, ,or ' a scarce book, was. his • sole ololight,- , .. and with hie ample means' and leisure. kw sooni amassed one of the finest-private collections tit the country. Remover alluded to it in a boattfel way himself, but .from others we ~ leara that his library was , exceedingly - maluable and quite large, too. His pamphlet collection' seems to have been his pet. Everywhere he could, Its purchaaed collections, ranging ;from. , thotteaada clown to a single pamphlet.. He probably had at his death,6o,ooopamphlets en American history, exclusive of • his bound volumes. .. Some of the rarest and oldest of these cost him several. , dollars each. The whole makes an alumna mak, valtd collection. ,A. abort time ago he , tolittis;:- "When I think L have got' my little , colleetion complete enough, I intend to , bind them up:and present them to some public, institution. ",; , _ ;But; his generous plans are left incomplete, unleselatt has by,will made provision for :the .emergency. . So large was his collection, and so extensive was the scale on which it was carried on, he was coats melted to keep a private Secretary and Librarian •who attended all, the book sales, buying, fro: quentiy over all other bidden, books , desired by Mr. Fahnestock._ _ • • ' .., .• r Ilia donations to public libraries were shover liberal. To several Eastern Societies he gave large gifts. To our Minneaota Historical So ciety, in which during`his stay hebecame greatly' interested, his donations were almost pflneely. This year alone, his donations of books, picture& and money must amount to $l,OOO. Saul he was still devising liberal things for us. Everywhere he traveled,. ho vowed his friends to send dons- thins to it. In the death of such a man, our whole State,is a loser. He spent nearly a year in our city for the bonen of his wife's health—who was far gore with con sumption.. During this ,time.a numeer of, our citizens beau= acquainted, with him. In An . 1867, his wife died. Since then he has , :p PallYtbeen travellmga, . While in our city, m any whom he casually met. and felt interested in ware made to feel his gene- - rosily—always so quietly and kindly bestowed. that ao pride was offal:A.44lnd no refund c0nN,.... be made. :He nests have spent two or „threw thousand dollars here in benevolent acts alone. and donations to churches. Wherever -he went through life, his principal aim seemed to be tad* good , Wealth for him was but a Means of doing this—and thousands, bound to him by no its blot 1 love for , his amiable eharseter and noble qualities. e d gratitude for his generosity to them, milk h ay the announcement of his death with, deep • • .' We have v deemed this, tribute due , io idem.es .5 benefactor, of ant whole State, by his gifts to of its inatitutthis—and regret that it is so Imps feet and =matey. • ~, -Orlon. The eonatellation of Orloo, with the "atuddisl; tab" ae Aeoti calls it,WOM tinsgthow colossal .1/ i gure 'which the . ancient .saltro'etseaOki. marked out on the stem heavens, le now isstsfs, sight in the evening:. The followlncecninet,inwei , terse In expression and nobler Inthonght, tieOs E4Pneta apt to be, appeared In the Aglinize ifostitylor February, 1867. 'Ste worthittedlng by those who make a study of the conlitellatlonA, and those who do not. , - Three worlds he wears as bosses .on his help Never ungirded; mortals theirs lay downi, • Great Aaron his; Moses in lll t c)ab bit The Sovereign Hand his high estate discroWo; Kingwd great men, or clad in , mailer kThirc l / 4 . • DisioWsnd and die; bat lot front year to row Those banded:worlds the mutual 'distance owe, Which Adam, saw when N,lght camouko44 ~ erhere; ', Ged's golden compasses there MOSstim sit Night unto night by this great symbol shows Far forth this counsel; Ever ..bs 1110 same, Planted by God, and feSr norabalna nor it:jai:let loose Orlon's bander--11di to t yAsst, - ; 0 faithful soul! 0141111 V the heat' ins , -~;;. ~~, ~ 5 ..~~. .. T ''tt t ' . t's''..- .' ,i,5~. Ir. , 4 4 .4 i