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I 11.reel I tie relation* of form toil color based on principle* oh exact ** those of miihematic*, and can beas p silm-Iy taught, Tlitlt; law* applicable 10 urn**, lu nil decor-l. tilt) making of I lie person uni surrounding* attractive, cm nil be inglit as correct iy a* the correct u*u of tbe Km/ * English uny i.ti inight The laws uf • «|o.-'ion nre iiuii.uulloe ; llieir applies . ton in to art expression a* infinite it* the in teen**. A* Mr. ('lurk* remark*;— ••Tb# i .phony and beauty of ibe h-uoveric* of !'• sartr, and tbe tm.lly »l the appltatliou I * be** pnuclple* to all the varied, seemingly contradictory, pUses «f art, make*i .nr exposition by one alio tRust rules the principle* »et forth, iim*i ait reel ive That three principles should bo taught In i.r normal and higher sctiunl* and ehoiibl to- i iini'ntr in teacher* .-the prinolploe of percentage or the simple elt;| unions of o'cebra. nn l should be u part, at least, of i ’li literary lt;l o-atiott, surely needs no or. I giitueot. Tti'it an elvtiit'ut of educaliuu i nincli will oirectly toauli the child how to ■ i. velop bi* body and lun-cie* in healthful, normal direction* by creamm excr.dse, avoiding tbe wearing exhaustive contortion* ofI ityninniilum, which deattoya hundred fold ii”.;e potter than they create, an I should be nan^nt in our schools, surely will need tn. argument. Will any one who listens to tbe n, i-i' al pe lode and watches the graceful gesture* lt;i the trur let dplcof Iieisarto deny !II at principle* which place art of that kind lt;w it him reach of all should be familiar to levellers of our hchoin-.' Just thitilt, in emu | p uison, of the coulorlions of the leg* un i I arm*, called •• gesture*, at a high school j cnnixncncemcutlu its applioutiou to itnlns-•rial training so elaborately dtscu*sid atihe teachers' meeting of a week ago. the value j uf the discoveries of DeUartc would be in i caloulahli*. A general dissemination of I these ••laws of related hst monies,'' with I the uccompauying teaching of ludiisirial An Dittoing in our public schools, w mid give a wonderful impetus to our ari knowledge ind couscquenlly to the art production- olii - community. Vulgarity, exhibited in i!,i preference of what is snowy, sentiweti-i :I. -ensuiionul and fontnstio, to wliat is aim pie, rlt; tineJ and iiupreiending, ' says 1'rof. i In- li. Norton, iu the March tjrum, “is the -tamp of much of the popular art everywhere to day.'' That this is true, is proba-hly because, as Prof. Norton explains,— ••we still fur the must part regard the line arts as pleasing and becoming appendages and adornments of life, not understanding that they are the only real lest,of the spiritual qualities of a race, and the standard ly which ultimately its share in the progress of humanity must lie measured: for they are the permanent expression of the soul—of its desires and uspintions by which it has been inspired. ' It is the triumph of the prinei pies of Delsarte that under their iuttuenoe no *• vulgarity c*u find place. Theappli' canon of law exposes the vulgarity—shows why vulgarity is vulgar: and. gauged bylaw. vulgarity becomes its own unconscious, incorruptible self.accuser, whose testimony admits of no contradiction.That the teaching of Delsarte is not the province of amateurs or dabblers, needs no argument. Let us not mistake the high school graduate lor an Emerson or a country housebuilder fur a Richardson. To learn the theory of withdrawing life' front the hands as does not in itself give manor wo. hut meulal control of the bauds and limbs which is the ultimate end of those exercises, when coupled with the work which follows; to be able to wiud the right limb around the leg of a chair and push the body, stiff as a stick, into mid air, is not “ Dol-it is torn foolery. Nothing is more easily counterfeited and ridiculed than Delsarte. The very simplicity of the discoveries of Delsarte is a constant temptation to slop at hall knowledge—a skimming of the surface without looking into the depths in which tbe true simplicity and beauty of all lies buried. The real exposition of Ibe principles Delsarte discovered and formulated i* one of the* most fascinating an.l elevating of eiudies, admitting the student within the realm of all true art.— broadening the mind and ennobling the character.Rntrt• \ great fAlt I tXVIUsSloft.people inn Tara centuryago. -uy-I I I ward I'ml.e. in his great j work, •• Industrial and High Art Education in the ■ S., publ .-in i ly ilio government,j •• set himself (• serious study in search of the laws which underlie human expression In was the ' ime work iu which Rus. ktti has billed so many years but in which lie hits had inly ft partial suce - us regards universal art; but De:-uw *--years of p (lent research, were rewarded by important discoveries, and, through him, the mi dogma, that •■there can be n sindard of correct taste set up, and that ttiro, ghoul the whole rcabii of art the only guide i- r.t*hio nr individual caprice, ' has forever bet-disproved mid demolished.Naturally there discoveries were availed of first in the dramatic art. but soon painters of hi-torical and dramatic scenes found use for his principles, and now It i* coming to be recngnlied that since all nrf is bit expreslt; -ton, tbo laws of expression must underlie all art. Here, then, is the praclieal outcome. ■• If art Is based on immutable laws, like mathematics, the principle- of correct taste can be demonstrated, an i the refute can be taught.' and this the teacher uf lte!**rte mm* to do. D can be shown wir, , no ex ample of art,—in acting, in painting or in sculpture, Ac.,— is pleasing and another dia-I pleasing as surely as the sum of a column of 1 figures can be shown to be correct nr incur-J* ago, when l.tity n* the servant of the gang 11 then running the Jnurrtiil, l» instigate a * o revival and drive certain tin the weary woods, he singled nitial subject for exile, Esquire Van Huron Weeks, then, as now, police magistrate.lie set sail for Weeks in tbe true guttersnipe style, and not finding him in the gut assailed him from the shore. There nothing too vile far the sheet to accuse Weeks of having a hand in No secti n ot the city, where vice and crime could be found, wa* complete without Weeks’ presence, according to the sheet which Rose controlled.Weeks was patient under the abuse, but at length sued for libel This awakened the ire of Rose afresh, and he seemed more eager tc run hint out of town than in his previous attacks. But all the same Rose was unwilling to submit the ea*c for trial. Post* ponemcnt for oue cause or another was bad; a trial judge was at the last moment summoned a* Rose’s witness, and every resort adopted to put off a trial, after the pleadings had been filed and nn issue ]oioed by the overruling of Bose’s demurrer setting up justification of the libel.At length, when there was no longer any alternative and the case roust come to trial, on Monday Rose asked fora continuance until Wednesday and then until Monday, pending a settlement. Weeks did not seek n settlement Rose begged to be heard, and the case was continued until Monday.On Wednesday evening there was a con-
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The Ottawa Free Trader
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