New York's Museum

Although the Metropolitan Musenn,. Art in Nevr York city is strictly a pr)TIU iistitution, orgauizedand adrainUtwtdM the voluntary syetcm, it had the eoodfr, tune to have an ediilce provided tor ft u the oity. This was one of its fint g gifts. añil it has thus been left frwtoo. peud its funds in the purehae of workjd art. lts valuable gifts have won fots even a European reputation, since idit has done for New York what yearedldnol do for any old country gallen-. ng the many eifts to the mata are the foüowing: Thirty thousand U lars frora Henry C. Marquand, oneof tbt ¦-, ior an art school fund; (SO.ni from üideon F. T. Heed for the same p pose; $100,0X), a gift by bequest of W.l Vanderbllt, for an eudowment fund; om $7000 for a library fund, fiom two genotmen; over $70,000, the bequest of Leriï Willaril, for the purchase of architecten! illustrations; "The Ilor.-e Fair,'' bj Roa Bonheur, purchased by Corneliua Yate bilt for $53,000 and presentid to tb museum; the noted "FriedlaDd," bj nier, purchased at tho Stewart uli bj Judfre Hllton ior 166,000 and presen-! to the museum; a noted Kejnolds, po by Junios 8. Morgan, tost aUs $50,000; Miss Catlierine Lorillard Wdt hor ent re collectlon of oil paintin and alo her water-color drawlogt, and .'¦:: the preservation of these and futan ¦¦ crease of the collection Í2OO.000; Ki. ficorjje Seney haa givi'n 20 vnlu#ie palnUngi; ndMr. Wilüam Stham mi various members of his fnmily han arlched the gailery with gif t in sculptn and paintlng. Thenntions and colonics whirbadui works of art free are Austria, Bclgin, Denmark, France, Germauy, GretM,) Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Great liriuii New South Wales and Victo Russia imposC8 a tax of 30 cent pari pounds on certain Matuary, hut incloda pictures, eurlosities and articles 'ooMM ing the usual qu:i!ifications of raerche ilisc' on tho free list. China has a tari .". perceut on works of art, if for sale; is Turkey charges 40 cents a pound onp und allows the importatioo i 'ZS pounds of ftrituary fur fc ïhis is a splendld i.lea- Uiij sculpture ar.d paintings by the poui Ilow could our solons i: let their rlvals of the Celestial kingdoms get ahead ot themf Portugal colleclii per cent on iiainlings and 1 per cent statues, and Spain gets a specific duty i 19 lints olT every picture, and sets cents otf ever}' 10 pounds of statuarj kl ]orted. Hawaif and Corea ei cent ad vftloxem. New Zealand, 15, tunada, following a bad exaraple, i Mexico, however, only exacts 53 ftö per kilogram of paintingsand ei;ht aa per kilogram of statuary. Honilurul." a tax of $1.30 a pound on all 'ai agua 41 cents a pound (on palm Salvador, 5 ],er cent ad valorem, d Ecuador four cents a pound.- Tk iil Aut'iti ut. The yonth, when he bcuim to feel ui attraction of nature and art, believes tt by au carnest ellort he shall soon be to plerce to the Inniost sanciuarj'; man finds, after long wandeling u; ¦ down, that he is still upon the - Goethe. Evrryone knowsthat the different , of an artist are as closeiy rel daughters of Om - . lnat if say that bctween thein are i semblances. - [Taine. In this world's affairs there to nodaö ' so great or good but it will toket! nlse men to help it forv and a single fooi eau stop it.- [ w k,i,