The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-31

rare indeed since the best time OF the creeks, |
whose figures never act at us. AS in the BAR |
toomeo Coeoui" of Verocchio, the expression |
of an intense idea pervades every limb and tea-
ture of the figure and is vital without violence,
original without effort The air OF the statue Is
not stately; that of the original was not so; but
t is marked by gravity, selfrestraint, and energy
With nothing that suggests conJemplatlVe
character here is the look of abundant resource,
ease readiness and flXibility in modes OF action
in pursuing purposes which were firm enough
below the surface. Palmerston looks rather a
man of business than a far-sighted statesman.
His facets ''modern," and anything but "herotc;"
herein lay much of the sculptOrs difficulty. The
modern costume is rigidly attended to in all
essentials: the trousers are trousers of cloth,
with truthful folds and texture; the limbs the
garments cover are indicated rather than re-
yealed and no aifectatiOn of anatomical know
ledge has marred the design. A short cloak OF
thin cloth and ample extent, with loose sleeves
and wide openings at the wrists, hangs from the
shoulders behind the figure, but so carefully dis
posed in q natural way that it does not look like
''drapery." We consider this by TAR the most
artistic and vigorous public statue which has yet
appeared in this country
The London iUeHRitH1 says;--Ihe cleaning
of Henry the Seventh tomb, in the chapel, at
Westminster which that monarch built to con-
tain it, may be expected to produce an effect
which, on account of its spendor, will captivate
the eyes of many who do not regard the interior
in question a whole, and with n view to its
solemn pictorial effect. A gorgeous and shining
sentcd, far surprising, in the success of the
operation in reyiving an old work, that which
has been unfortunate with regard to the mOnu-
mcnt of the Countess of Richmond IN the ada
cent aisle of the same chapel. We deprecate
very earnestly these attempts to revive parts of
o homogeneous whole not only on their own
account, as not necessary to their preservation,
but because they result in producing incOngrui-
ties which are destructive to the gravity and
beautiful color which time has given. Above
all, one does not know where these operations
are to stop. The same reasoning which attempts
| to justify these proceedings may be applied
with equal fortune to an entire restoration of
the Abbey. We were warned long ago that Il
| desire was felt and expressed to proceed in the
| manner which has now been the cause OF our
| regrets; also that experiments on small scale
| had been made with regard to cleaning the gates
| of Henry the Seventies Chapel; but we trusted,
| as we can no longer trust, that nothing would
| be done to destroy the beautiful effect which,
until recently, charmed artistic eyes. We pro-
! test against the work which has been already
| done and hope that that which is well will be
| in future left alone. 1t needs but weak artistic
| feeling to see how much grayer, apter, and more
| harmonious is the aspect Of such tomb as that
| of LOdovick Stuart, Duke of Richmond rs yet
| untouched, on the south Of King lleRrys monu-
ment, than that of the latter now cleaned memo
rial.
"A little more than half century has
| elapsed since Jane Austen died at Winchester,
| in her native county. This beautiful and ac-
|
| novelist only from 1911 to 1917, when she died,
| at the comparatively early age of fOrty-two.
| But in those half-doZen years she became Il
| leader in her peculiar class of fiction, beginning
| with Sense and Sensibility." After her death
her friends published her ''Northanger Abbey
| a girlsh effort which barely gave promise OF
something better A Life of this once celebrated
lady will be one of the biographies of the season.
II VIII be in the very acceptable form OF single
volume, and have for author the novelist,
| nephew, the Rev. j Austen-Leigh, Vicar OF
Bray, near Maidenhead He WILL probably, ado
| to the fame of lady whose last words were, 81
| only want death"
Tho Thames tunnel has just been closed as
a footway, and now new tunnel has advanced
| far under the Thames, called the Thames Sub
| way. About sixty years ago the great engineer
| Richard Trevithick, was engaged upon what he
called the Thames Archway," at Rotherhithe
! He carried it successfully to within hundred
feet of the opposite shore This was from 1880
| to 1909. The present engineer has found ~
| Trcvithck did-a continuous bed of clay unde
the river The present tunnel is, consequently
the third attempt Dodds tunnel was in th
chalk down the river, and was stopped b,
springs entering though the tissures.
Tine intended destruction of Chesterfield
| House points to the removal of one more of til
interesting buildings in London. The site is t
be built upon The present house was built b.
Isaac Ware for Philip, fourth Earl of Chester
field. author OF the Letters" and occupied j
! l14g. The pillars of the library. which is one
CmOns. the seat of the Duke of ChandOs. Eal
Philip died in this house in 1913. One porto
Of the interior will survive in Mr. L. NJ. Ward
famous picture
William Shakespeare was not the onl
Shakespeare at least OF King Charles time
There was 'John Shakespeare, who was bi
maker to the King. After his death, n warrar
was issued in 1881, to pay his widow lin r.
gard OF her present necessities } Gl6l2 Is, 'tC
wares by him" (John Shakespeare ''delvere
for his Majesty's service in the stables. III
warrant is calcndared in Mr.. Bruces last Volum
of domestic Papers of the Reign OF Charles I'll
First
The first examination Of women by Trinit
| College, Dublin, is announced TO take plaC
between March % and April Is, 1870. Thel
are to be two classes, consisting OF Juniors b.
| tween fifteen and eighteen, and seniors abON
S eighteen. AS in the Cambridge examination
; certificates win be granted, but no lists pu
t | lshed. The subjects are to be English Lal
5 guage and Literature, French, Spanish German
5 Italian, and Latin.
a Mr.. Henry T. Riley, in fulflment of h
: commission to search for and report upon a
cient MSS. which are, rs ''Sir Giles Oycrcacl
SAYS ''still cloistercd up has, we are told, Sc
: in Reports of the fruits of his visits TO Yor
q Cambridge, Coventry, Nottingham, and Bridg
It water. Mr.. Riley is now at Wells whence
S will proceed to Glastonbury and subsequent
+ TO AXbridge, where a superb collection of o
n MSS. is said to exist.
n The Burgh of Lochmaben which during Ia
,f century took to pieces the greater part OF {
,a noble old castle of Robert Bruce for bulldil
4. | purposes of its own, has repented thoroughly
T. It's vandalism, and is now making strenuo
efforts to obtain subscriptions for the purpose
n raising a monument to Scotland's hero king.
II The noble offer made to the Turkish &c
d ernmcnt by Miss Burdctt Coutts to repair I
: works for the supply of water to Jerusalem,
,f her own cost, has been declined. The Turk