ART CRITICISM.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2574, 7 April 1877, Page 4

ART CRITICISM.

In the Art Gallery at the Centennial a gentleman looking at a picture hung high, over the entrance read aloud the title, "Centaur carrying away a Nymph." A lady who had just passed it turned hastily and looked again, then touched her companion, and said,?;in. low tones,;;".Oh, Mary Emma/; that is 'a senator carrying off a nymph!" "Why, dear aunt! A senator carrying off a nymph ! Do they reelly do such things ? " and she closed her eyesyn. horror. 'fHusK^steh ! Ofy my dear! yes"; often." "Well, but Aunt Dora, it can't be true; the nymphs, you : know—why don't they make a fuss or • something, aunt ? I never could be carried : off without ." •« No matter what you think, Mary Emma," said the aunt, shortly, " I was in Washington for tyro, months once, Malvina::-Garsdn was there for half a year, and such things as I saw," 1 shaking :*.her ;.head wisely. ■. "You ought to hear Malyina talk!'' and she shuddered.;! MaryjEmmaTregarded the picture meditatively for a few. moments longer; then, "Aunt," she said, "I think--,do you- know—l think I'd like to know a senator." - " Oh, you dreadful girl! That I should live to hear you say suchathing. Have you forgotten your catechism, Mary Emma ? tVfNp, aunt;''; but I am perplexed, "you.know, and the nymph— 'does she ftirgePher ;catechism, or is the senator's memory poor P --Carried right :off ;_, dear mp, Aunt Pora s ; I dpri't ur\deri 'stand it at all. ' Is i 6 because senalip.r is so very- powerful, and. the nymp^ so, very wfiakß'^.^^'Mary Emma/'-solemnly, ".it's;; both. - Now be warned rash* girl." "•Aunt," innocently^'d.idyou/everkijow a se.nator ? " "Dear me ] Mary Emma, see how yoii have paught your parasol in my lacerrthere's another thread, broken. I think we have been here long.:enoi!gh; let us go to the- bakery arid get some coffee." And they went, Mary Emma stillj&altitfg perplexed and puzzled> and Aunt Dora virtuously defiant.—American paper