JARVES, JAMES JACKSON, b. Mass., 1818; educated in Boston, but unable to go through a university course on account of impaired eye-sight. Having been appointed U. S. consul to the Sandwich islands, he resided at HonOluln for a number of years, and established the first newspaper, the Polynesia, ever published there. He made an exten sive tour through California, Mexico, and Central America, and also visited Europe. He did not, however, leave the Sandwich islands permanently until 1848. In the mean time he published several works which attracted attention, being written in a free and graphic style, while conveying much interesting information. These were: Ristory of lie Sandtetel:, Islands, 1843; Scenes and Scenery of the Sandwich ISlands, 1844; Scenes and Scenery in California, 1844. He also published, in 1855, Parisian, Sights and French Principles, a series of bri liant and characteristic sketches. Mr. Jarves's Art hints, which
be afterwards enlarged and republished as Art Studies, was the first of his contributions to the literature of the tine arts. Having devoted himself to the collection of paintings illustrating the early schools of art in Europe, in a sequence, he was successful in bring Mg together a large number of fairly illustrative works, beginning with the Byzantine and reaching down through the middle age Italian, and the later French, Flemish, ant Spanish schools. This collection, or such examples from it as were not privately dis po-ed of, was deposited in the fine art gallery of Yale college. Since 1862 Mr. Jarvcs has resided in Florence, where he is recognized as a keen, skillful, and experienced art critic. His later publications have been the Art Idea and Art Thoughts