Literary Note

Theodore Child has written for the September number of Harper's Magazine an article upon "American Artista at the Paris Exhibition," lUustrated with twenty engravings-neariy al] I full with and Thayer. Mr. Child does not hesitate to say tb at the Amenwin Fine Art section at the Universal Exhibition was " one of the strongest and most interesting of all thefomga departments." He continúes : i jubtify this affirmation by compansons would be useless. There is no common measure applicable to works of art. I he important fact to be noted is that in 1889 America boasts an élite of artistó whose ñames are cited in coinpany with the most ülustrious, and that men hke Whistler, E. A. Abbey, W T. Dannat, and John S. Sargent can hold their own brilliantly in a palace of art where the exibitors, besides the great Frenchmen, are masters of the eminence of Munkacsy, Adoph Menzel, Herkonaer Orchardson, Madrazo, Boldim.and Alfred Stephens.