The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-17 00:00:00

LITERATURE,

Perles d'Orient. Par le Chevalier de Chatelain.
One vol., pp. 262. Rolandi.
Another charming volume from the indefatigable
Chevalier de Chatelain 1 As a man of letters, ap.
pertaining almost equally to France and to Eng-
land, to the country of his birth and the country of
his adoption, his industry is almost as remarkable
as his taste and his poetic volubility. His writings
are evidently with him labours of love. They are
literally effusions—not " pumped up" but " flow-
ing." They have the flavour and the sparkle of
spontaneity. And they follow each other
with surprising rapidity. It might be said of
them with a punning truthfulness, that in
both senses of the phrase applied to the apparitions
in the spectral scene in " Macbeth"—" another
and another still succeeds." For it is surely
in signal evidence of their success that they thus
steadily increase and multiply, as the years roil on,
these now rather numerous "Ouvrages du Chevalier
de Chatelain." In this the latest of them all, the
accomplished writer has realised a very graceful
fancy—a fancy the nature of which the title of the
work itself sufficiently indicates. "Pearls from
the East," thoughts, imaginings, imageries, re-
collections, drawn from the Orient—as Mr.
Kinglake expressed it, in a word, years ago, a word
since then famous because familiarised, " Eothen."
The contents of the little volume are divided into
parts. The First Part is original. The Second
Part is composed of Translations. Both of them,
in the strictest and fullest sense of the term,
are oriental in their character. Pearls they are,
showered down—individually, before M. Garvin de
Tansy, to whom the volume is gracefully in-
scribed.-generally, before the educated puolic
on both sides of the Channel, before
French-loving Englishmen and English-loving
Frenchmen, as souvenirs dear to the hearts end
intellects and souls of those two great and kindred
nationalities. For, to the two of them equally,
the East, from which these poetic pearls are
gathered up, has ever its peculiar and thrice-wel•
come fascination. If we might, without appearing
to be in any way invidious, make the selection,
we should certainly be disposed to award the pre-
ference in this volume to the Chevalier's own origi-
nal compositions, those constituting the first of the
two divisions. Ane, in justification of our pre-
ference we would direct attention, among other
poems in that First Part, to Le Songe, Le Besoin
d'Aimer, and Lea Revers de Fortune.

The Effects of the Late Mr. Thackeray.

The valuable effects of the late Mr. William Makepeace
Thackeray, comprising capital pictures by ancient and
modern masters, water colour drawings, service of plate,
Sevres, Dresden, Oriental, and other porcelain; clocks and
candelabra, beautiful old cabinets, looking-glasses, and con-
sole tables; the valuable library ; the small cellar of choice
wines, &c., are now being disposed of, on the premises, 2,
Palace-green, Kensington, by Messrs. Christie, Manson,
and Woods, of King-street, St. James's. The sale excited
much interest ; it commenced yesterday, and will close on
Saturday with the wines. The following were the principal
contents of the first day's sale, with the prices they fetched,
and the names of the purchasers :
PORCELAIN.—Lots 4 and 7. A tall jar, enamelled with
Chinese figures, birds, and plants, in colours, 16in high,
and a tall vase of fine old Japan, blue and gold ground, with
plants in compartments, 20in high, £6 5s (Hunt.)
21-22. An eight-leaved screen, inlaid with plaques of
Oriental porcelain, enamelled with figures, and a fine flat
bowl, with figures in landscapes in brilliant colours, on
white ground, carved wood stand, £ll (Spence). Lot 24-25.
A pair of Oriental two-handled square vases and covers, ena •
wiled with flowers, and a pair of two-handled Furstenburg
vases, white and gold, with medallions in brown, £lO 68
(Trent). 26-7. A pair of oval tureens and stands of old
Dresden, painted with birds in colours, and flowers in blue,
the covers surrounded by figures of children, and a pair of
white vases, with openwork covers, encrusted with figures
of children, flowers, and foliage, £lO 8s (Jackson). 28-9.
An old Dresden compotier, painted with flowers, and with
raised ornaments, the cover surmounted by a flswer ; and a
pair of Chelsea openwork baskets, on scroll-pattern feet,
encrusted with flowers in colours, a group of birds painted
on the inside of one, £0 lOs (Kreisa), 40-2. A pair of
square bottles of old Dresden, painted pith figures, birds,
and plants, in imitation of Oriental, and a Dresden group
of five children with flowers, on white and gold scroll-
pattern, pedestal of the same, glass shade and stand, £l2
(Waddy). 46--S. A pair of beautiful two -handled vases,
on feet of Doceia ware, painted with figures in landscapes
on both sides, 81 inches; a pair of oval Berlin basket-pattern
dishes, painted and encrusted with flowers, and a pair of
circular ditto, smaller, £l4 15s (Johnson). 60, An oval
Sevres dish, pink, green, and gold, painted with Cupid in
a medallion, mounted with handles, reins, and on feet of
ormolu, £7 15s (Kreisa). 51. A beautiful Furstenburg
dessert service, with white and gold raised borders, painted
with birds 'n landscapes and flowers, consisting of 5 large
circular dishes, 10 smaller ditto, and 28 plates, £l5 ("•;saith).
52. A fine old Berlin dinner service, with raised basket-
pattern borders, and painted with bouquets of flowers, con-
sisting of 2 large oval tureens, covers and stand, 2 circular
do., 2 small oval do., 14 oval dishes in sizes, 19 circular
do., a two handled sauce-boat and ladle, 24 soup plates,
and 65 dinner plates, £27 (Jackson). 53. A white and
gold coalport dessert service, plated with flowers, consist •
ing of centre dish on foot, 4 oval dishes, 4 shell-shaped do.,
4 square do., and 23 plates, £9 (Jackaon). 54-7. Eighteen
Dresden shell-shaped dishes, with figures in pink, and gilt
borders, and a pair of Dresden triple shell-shaped dishes,
with handles, and painted with birds, 16 gs. (Johnson).
61-2. Twenty-four Berlin basket-pattern plates, with open
work borders, painted with flowers, £l4 lOs (Feetham).
66-7. A pair of Japanese jars and covers, enamelled with
flowers on red and gold ground, and birds in compartments,
81in, and a pair of cylindrical bottles, of old Japan, with
birds and plants in colours, 13in, £6 15s (Mrs Brewton).
68-9, A pair of Sevres sauce boats, with blue and gold
borders painted with flowers, and an Angouleme scean,
white and gold, painted with flowers in blue and gold,
£ll 12s 6d (Cole). 74-6. A pair of shaped basins, ena-
melled with China figures, green inside, and 26 Oriental
plates, enamelled with birds and flowers, and with flowers
in white in the borders, £ll 7s 6d (Cole). 79-80. Twelve
leaf-shaped dishes, richly enamelled with flowers, and part
of a Derby dinner service, in imitation of old Japan, con-
sisting of 50 pieces, £ll 8s (Amroot). 81. A dinner ser-
vice, painted with flowers in green, in imitation of Oriental,
consisting of 120 pieces, £lO (Cole). 82. A dinner ser-
vice of ironstone china, with flowers in colours, in imitation I
of Oriental, consisting of 146 pieces, £l7 108 (Bowyer).
PICTURES.-86. De Troye—Queen Anne seated on a
throne, attended by a female, allegorical of Peace, burning
implements of war, painted in commemoration of the Treaty
of Utrecht, £lB (Solomon). 87. Pourbus—Portrait of a lady
in a ruff, white headdress, rich crimson and gold silk dress,
and gold chain, to which is suspended medals of the Em-
perors Rudolf and Sigismund, and inscribed " Herich
Bronsen R. Filia, 1604," £7 (G. Smith). 88. Two cupies
sporting, a circular centre for a ceiling, very fine, £25 10s
(B. Benjamin). 89. J. F. Herring, sen., 1855—A partridge
and young in a cornfield, £2l (Dawson). 90. Watteau—
A conversation champetre, an elegant composition of six

figures in a landscape. 91. Van Loo—Portrait of a lady in
a blue silk dress ar.d pearl necklace, a beautiful cabinet pie-
. _

ture, £25 108 (Anthony). 92. J. F. Hughes—Kenilworth
Castle, with cattle in a stream, scene evening, £4lss (Reid),
93. J. Leslie—A Roman peasant boy with a water-bottle,
a dog at his side, very fine, £2O lOs (Graham). 95. D. W.

Deane—lnterior of a cottage, with a mother and child, £9
lOs (Waters). 96. Old Cuyp—A landscape, with peasants
and cattle on a wooden bridge and ducks beneath, oval £4

6s (Kreisa). 97. W. Collins, R.A.—A sea-share with a pea-
sant boy and girl with children, evening scene, signed by the
artist, £2l 108 (G. Smith). 98. Storck— View of Rotterdam
with a man-of-war and yachts under sail, and figures about
to land from aboat, £l3 Ws (Spence). 101. Stanfield, 1852

—View on the North Esk at Rosalyn, £l6 los (B. Benjamin).
102. A. Gilbert—View on the Banks of the Thames, look-
ing towards Putney, £3 15s (Mrs. R. Cbckerton). 104,
Begyn—An Italian river scene, with sheep and goats feed-
ing, and a female and child reposing at the foot of a tree,
£8 15s (Waters). 105. B, Van Ler Velde—A View in the

Low Countries. with a grand encampment of Spanish
troops, a general's staff on the rising ground in front, £lO
(Spence). 107. J. Mytene, 1605—A girl, in a pink silk
dress, plucking a rose, and a child in a yellow silk dress,
crimson hat and feather, carrying apricots, a dog at her
side, in a landscape, signed by the master, 15 guineas
(Kreisa).

SILVER.-149. A beautiful square salver, on feet, with
border engraved with scrolls and masks by Hogarth; this
tine work was warmly contested, and w as knocked down to

Mr. Kreisa at the enormous price of L 210; per ounce, more
than half the price of gold. 151. A Ice old tea kettle,
engraved with an eagle, Cupid, scrolls, and flowers, on
stand, chased with festoons of flowers, and on lion's claw
feet, £1 6s 6d per ounce (Smith). 152. An oval inkstand,
with chased claw feet, and engraved open work border; two
glasses with silver tops, taper candlestick and extinguisher
inscribed, "To William M. Thackeray, from an Obliged
Friend, Nov. 16, 1851,"
27s per ounce (Kreiga). 158, A
fine fluted punch• bowl, with waved edge, chased with scroll
and foliage, and with lion's•mask handles, inscribed, "From
the Publishers of Vanity Fair' and Pendennis,' "£2 3s
per ounce (Kreisa).

- This was the last article in the first day's sale ; to day the
elegant furniture in the breakfast-room, drawing-room,
library, dining-room, landing, will be sold.

THE AMBASSADOR OF RUSSIA TO SPAIN (Prince
\Volowski) is reported to have jast gained a prize of £ 3,000
in the Spatziel lottery.