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ART.

hIr Woolper and 1lr. A1illais are makiug ar
raDgemeuts for reproducing worthy kkenesa
Of Mr.. Charles Dickens.
"A fine collection OF drawings by Raphael
and Michael Angelo WAS recently opened to
view at the galleries Of the Burlington Fine
Art Club.
MIR. Foley, Il. A., has bccu commissioned
with the execution Of q memorial statue to the
late Earl Of Derby.
Mr.: Raskin,s.'' Lecture on Art lately q,
bo issued, in few days, from the Ame1icau
branch Of the English publishing house Of
Macmillan Co.
There are now more than twenty-thtee
hundred paintings in the Art Gallery 1T Dres-
den, Sa1ouy. The most valuable Of these are
the Sixtine Medouua and Holbeius Madonna.
The means of fixing designs and drawings
executed In charcoal and other fugitive mate
rial OF similar character has long been sought
after in the art world. but are now completely
supplied By the discovery, by II. Rouget, Of
hxitive,' which is blown from vessel in the
form OF spray, and renders every drawing to
which it is applied, whatever the material, por-
manent
Many years ngo, and before Landseer WAS
as renowned as he uow is. he was very poor;
aud il is said that he day pal Fl sterling for
the body Of a dead lion, from which he male
most successful picture, called " A Lion At
lacked by Serpent" He vas fortunate
enough to ind d purchaser Immediately, and
this IVES the commencement OF lis fame. Tho
dead lion turned Landseer into living lion.
al. CourLet, tie painter, according to Gal
to Ii. Maurice illichard, Minister Of a tie Fine
Arts, refusing the Cross Ut tue Legion Of Hon
or conferred on linn on tue occarion Of the
late exhibition. He grounds his decision, first
On the fact of his being Republican, and there-
fore not wiling to accept any favor or mark Of
honor Ircm ! person on thtono and next,
because it ip tie public alone that can properly
reward the merits Of IN artist.
"A statue OF the Good Shepherd in very
good style Of art has just been discovered ia
Rome. Unfortunately it IL mutilated. By
competent judges it is aaHigned to the second
century; and what i important u, that it il
not The bear1less youth, not the Divine Shep-
herd himself, but au old -1nsn with the crisp
beard aud hair SO well known to archao1oSista
rs characteristic Of St. Peter.
AT tho recent great sale at Frankfort OF
Of the specimens sold for enormous prices.
1.-THE Triumph Of Mammalian by Burgkmair,
and Les G.impeurs, by The same, cs83. The
two hundred and twenty-Hi1 Marc Antonio
prints in The sale yielded E1O,2 The agent
Of tho British Museum was large purchaser
OF the Marc Antonio prints. and also secured
some rare specimens Of A1tdorfer, J. Amman,
Jean and Theodore de Dry, Holler, Michel Os-
tendorfcr, e. Percy, Virgil SoliB, Wet Stoss,
Martin Zasinger, tho brothers Wierix, Etienne
do Csnne, and others.
Tho Toledo Blade says: "As further eyi-
deuce that John Browns soul keeps marching
on We refer to the last number Of Harpsrs
Weekly. He appears there IN an engraving
with pistol III one hand, while. lis vile Is
binding Lis wounded arm, and Ms two sons
are shooting Border EulIans out OF tho win
dow. During tho Kansas troubles ho appear-
Ell in the same paper, in this sama engraving,
Il We mistake not. But note now the Belief Of
tie Harpers in the pythagorean doctrine Of
the t5snsmigration Of souls John Brown ap-
pears in this instance in the character OF
a settler attacked By Indians. This pic
ture was taken by the artist on the spot
the epot being oae OF those fre-proof
vaults under the Harper building, in
which they keep old plates. It was only me-
cessn1y for their artist to take it from that
SPOT brush OF the dust, and cali it Settlers
AttaeEed by Indians We do not SEQ that i
has 1ost anything by its Rip Van Wrinkle sleep"
Mrs. Charles L. Elliott, previous to her
departure for Europe, presented to the Ma
honal Academy Of Design an elegant cabinet.
containing many Interesting relics Of her late
husband. In tic collection are many articles
used " the painters in the practice OF Lis art
while living, among them his dressing robe,
with the handkerchief in the pocket; the maui
stick, and palette set with colors, inst as i1r.
Elliott lett them the opon paint-bo1, and
numerous other valuable objects characteristic
Of the man and his profession.