Abstract

Special Correspondence

The exhibitions of Paris Salons work conspicuous for rare merit, or eccentricity. No doubt in each there are canvases likely to prove delightful in a smaller collection or hanging on one's own walls, which, in so motley a gathering are completely overshadowed. It is usually the huge machine, panted down to the standard of juries and the gaping crowd. Sentiment has betrayed M. Detaille into reporting in paint a Paris fire in order that he may, not suggest a dramatic harmony in the play or flames and light, but show a row of frock-coated gentlemen taking off their top hats to the "Victims of Duty." The memoirs of General and French Ambassador Count De Segur's of great warrior Bonaparte Napolean have published in eight volumes in 1873.