The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1845-08-09
EXTRACTS FROM WILLIS'S LETTERS
FROM LONDON.

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The most refreshing and newest wonder 0
LONDON, just now, IS the ice of 'sLake Wenham, ,
an innocent Massachusetts, lake that. year =,
two ago, had very little idea of becoming 4 Ion.
don hon. (How suddenly we do sometimes he.
come famous to be sure , Beautifully PAINTED
carts, iettered ''Wenham Ice" go about the civ
ana wherever they stop to take out a block !
crowd collects, and there is no limit to cocknev
s uinlration OF IT, Something of the kind was wan
Jug from our country, by the way, to show that
laeuie' dt ieast mad not "repudiated.'' But thew
nave done, hitherto, without ice, seems naturaI
enough to ask. | just remember that we aIwavs
drank tepld water in the summer time in london
ana that the hook and champagne had never tba
recupefaung tWang that delights the drv throa+
on Ihe FOLK side OF the Atlantic Now when tbe
mock mas been passed around after the sonn
tnere is general exclamation and discussion If
nc" luxury and the conversation commonly pas
ses from that to sjuleps'' and sherry cobbIers ),
Whlch are mysteries known BY name and much
lnqulredlnto. | seriously think that an Amer;-
can par, set up at Charing Cross, and furnish
ing the thirty or forty drinks (of Brigbam's IA
NOUS Hst IN BOSTON, would be the making of the
setter-ups fortune. have lost the golden opnor-
tunlty OF becoming celebrated man. myself hv
not oeing provided with an accurate recent Of
the proportions. o'eip' u
stepped yesterday, into Howel,s and Jama,s
-0r m m
lature statues of the Duke of Wellington and Na.
Poleon' The Count, as unequalled horseman
ana the owner, for the last twenty wears OF the
linest 'bits Of blood' that money could bnv is IF
course, better judge of horse than most scnln-
TORS, Inc models are very different from most
marble steeds Their snowy points are edwelt
uPon' 50 70 speak. There is no point which is
IN nature, and the truth probably is.
that the Count has infused the principle Of his
own character into the idea he has here worked
cui-that others may stay safe, if they please, by
iollo"ing what Is general and easy he chooses
10 carry out that which is rare and lust possible
hey would be extraordinary horses in real life
because, though any one of their remarkable
points may have been seen, the combination ofso
many Peflectlons IN one animal would be mira
&c OF beauty and this is very true description
OF the count himself, and of his talents as wen as
ms person. The models are seen at disadyan-
tage, at present. because they are still in plaster
ana the coarseness of the material tells on stat
ues so small They are to be cast in bronze
very soon, and then they will be subjects of stu
e ssW we G6 5GYsrs 0t Uga Il sEhAy The
few days ago. He retains his splendid beauty in
undminished preservation. looked at him, af-
ter so long an absence, and with much of the IL
fusion of other days wore out of my eyes, to see
whether had not been dazzled into an undue
admiration of his personal appearance. Even ten
years after had recorded my surprise on first
seeing him, however, find him, still, by far, the
handsomest l ever saw, and if changed,
changed for the better, for his loss of high color
adds to the intellectual expression ofhs counten-
ance. His manners have the same abandon
which nobody could initiate, and which would be
out of place in any one but D'Orsay or King
His portrait, painted by himself, and now in the
exhibition of the Royal Academy, gives scarce
an idea of him, from the impossibility of putting
his royal manners upon canvass, and from his hav
ing really painted himself far less handsome than
nature made him. This and his portrait of LORD
Lyndhurst, by the way, are two very fine speci-
mems of the art and artists think his promise very
both as painter and sculptor. His
will be a curious life to read Of if ever truly and
written.