At the second meeting of the Art Club, last evening, Dr. William Everett of Quincy, addressed the Club in "Certain Limitations of Art in Relation to its Subjects." A work of art, Dr. Everett said, was commonly judged according to its morale, or its technique. In relation to Art, the subject of Propriety was first discussed, mainly in illustration of the Washington Monument. Dr. Everett drew attention to the fact that when the event was small, in order that it may be remembered, the monument commemorative of the event must be of great account. But that when the monument was a perfect work of art, the appreciation of the grandeur, and simplicity of a great event, was likely to be diminished. Therefore, it seemed to Dr. Everett, that it was inappropriate to commemorate the greatness of Washington by a monument that was to be regarded for its beauty alone. The rest of Dr. Everett's address, was occupied in the disession of the limitations of an artist-in regard to the interpretations of his subject,-and in regard to the regard for the morale of the subject, Dr. Everett closed his address by reciting some lines written by him after passing through the "offices" at Florence, when the Venuses of Titian are. The address was interesting throughout, and at times eloquent.
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