Special Correspondence.

The article focuses on issues related to art in Germany. The exposition at the Cantian Place is the fifty-first of its kind, yet outside of Germany, and perhaps even in Germany, it has never been able to receive from either the artists or the general public a tenth part of the attention which is regularly bestowed on the Paris, France Salon. Thus, this time there are hardly any works by foreign artists. There is at present much outcry in the German papers about the degeneracy of the modern stage and the decline of the drama. That this is not an unusual thing, and that the literature of all ages is full of such complaints, are well-known facts, alluded to in an article in a recent number of the journal North American Review.