New-York tribune., 1870-12-03
BOSTON.
pApY Ar AND PERSONAL GOSSIP.


~ EDUCATIONAL SCULPTURE GALLERY -
soCIAI SCIENCE ENTERPRISES - LECTURES
AND LECTURERS-TJiE SUNDAY CRACKERS,
BoSroN. Dec IL see your New-YOrk pub
sAers mostly ge Christmas books proper Into the
-tot before December arrives. Our houses are not
ue 80 prompt though Messrs. Roberts Brothers issue
oday their American edition OF KOnewka's "Faust"
.ubouettes with text from Mr. TAylOr's translation
which is their principal contribution 20 the list Of gifts
FOR Srown-up people. Apropos OF Messrs Roberts
Brothers, they have added TO their list OF books for early
publication "The Memoirs OF Alexandra Feodorowna.
ate Empress OF Russia by Herr Won Grimm, author OF
several wellknOwn biographies, translated by Lazy
wallace with portraits from life. and an engraving o"
bust by the Princess Royal OF England. have seen -"
early copy OF Mr. 2. G. Hamertons "Unkno"h N,'''
singular and somewhat costly book, OF "nIch 'n,
,AEi control the American edition. Inc 6r''ii'' '
etcher set out on q canoe voyage OF ms'oN'i! on VI.
little stream OF Arroux rising in the highland district VI
the east Of France little known to tourists anu "
tributary OF the Loire, which the war mas lna"e 80
familiar He carried with him sixty prepared plates or
etchings and on these he voyaged through forests
almost untrodden and by quaint towns whose history
GOES hack for thousands Of years he drew the pictures m
bat ne saw which are transferred directly from these
plates TO tho pages Of the book The pictures are OF
course the feature Of the vOume but there viii lie also
slender thread OF narrative and description in tho
seemingly lazy yet carefully finished style OF Ny
Hamerton which viii be very charming reading
have had an carly glimpse also Of the sheets OF
Messrs Fields OsgoOd & Co.'s one elaborate holiday
book. winter POems." There only nine pieces in
the volume the longest by Mr. Whittier, and
the others standard studies Of American Winter one
more by Whittier three by Longieow, two by Bryant
and one each by Lowell and Emerson. The principal
pictures forty-twO In number with nearly dozen
more little yignettes and taipieees The artists are
Messrs. Fem, Homer, Griswold Hennessy, Eytinge,
Martin. McEntee and Fredericks will not attempt to
describe the pictures but will merely hint that the first
oue at the head Of Mr.. whter's Pageants" very
faithful study Of the library at Amesbury, with the
Quaker poet standing at its window, and that MT Hen
messy has achieved two excellent portraits of Professor
Lowell In his Illustrations TO The First Snowfall"
The publication of DR.. oliver Wendell Holiness essay
on Mechanism in Thought and Morals" has been post
pOned % January.
The statue by Mr. Richard s. Greenough, designed IS
memorial the hall of the Latin School in honor OF the
graduates slain the has been put in ts place in
hail. and is TO be exhibited TO the public the last two
days OF this week. On Friday evening there will be
public exercises IN Music Hall in commemoration Of the
heroes whose names the monuments sort Of
dedication Of the satue-at which Mr.. william NJ Eyarts
OF New-York viii make the address, and Mr.. William
Everett will read original ode-both gentlemen being
Latin School graduates. The statue procured by
subscription Of association OF the alumni; and IL
privately shown to subscribers to the fund yesterday and
to-day 1t has already been described in this ,,rre
spondence-a single female figure in marble, peonyipe
Boston, holding aloft wreath of laurel 0D looking in
pride and sadness at shield which b" r the names of
the fallen children Of her leading rboo II has been
placed in niche in the wall % The great hall OF the
s"n en-. ueSsneu Oy Mr.. GreenOugh con-
tVed tha the statue may essiIv t,rped IN presept
different sides in success - -, -. ,, ,,o
wall are tablets cOntainiri "u " u10 - ~, -, -
School hovs VII, -, & the names OF all the Latn
some ~ Tho ,I, - 4 in the army, and portraits OF
While the A., 49, es also 10 be hung in the hall
the Boston Art ~ is st adream OF the iuture
have offered tbelub, en- association mainly OF artists
teel and coDvs IT roomsin elegant house on gen
any works duient street, for the public exhibition OF
lend for II art which tho owners may be willing TO
returr purpose The Club promise 20 send for and
qua i any picture statue which may be offered ana
rantee the best Of care OF them. The Atheneum gal
cry useful this way TO certain extent but 1t Is
closed during large part Of the year,
But the project for great Art Museum In Boston does
not sumlor though very little has lately been said about
h in the papers OF the city, The subscription for the
erection Of the building had reached at the time Of the
vacation last Summer about S25OO The trustees have
held a meeting this week, and examined the plans sub
mtod by different architects for the structure about
dozen designs competing. These were very deliberately
made showing elevations and interior arrangements
Six Of them deemed worthy OF the prizes offered or
tho most desrablcS2OO each These six were submitted
10 the Building Committee, who VIII make selection
among them, and make such notifications In the one
chosen as shall desirable. Untl this point Is
reached no further effort VIII be made to obtain subsorip
tons II being desirable first 10 know how large sum
m bc necessary TO erect such portion OF the building
q to De put up at once TO accommodate the art
treasures now at the command of the trustees The Fl
nance Committee Of the Association have not even met as
yet But thereare on every side signs OF interest in the
enterprise Samuel Hooper, and her daughter, Miss
Alice Hooper, have recently purchased In England a
picture 10y Washington Alson Elijah" one Of his most
remarkable works, from the collection OF Lord Taunton
which they have given 20 the Art Museum. 1t viii prob
Dc. al. gNrfNl fftF
the completion of the gallery, which is eventually to
receive it
Mcanvh, the other project Ia nearly ripe the inception
Of which was mentioned in this correspondence several
months ago. OF inaugurating new educational expert
mcnt by placing hall Of classic satuary girls high
school The theory which action has been based is
that there is in every human mind latent aesthetic
taste which cultivated often unconscOusly by daily
contact with the best works OF the highest art The
present enterprise will demonstrate how easily and
chcapy this naueuce may be brought 90 bear upon
tho Youth Of any American school A room In the new
building u the Girls High and Normal school In this
city has been assigned Tor the purpose, and has been
prepared with such and taste that IL Is perhaps
the perfection % hal for the object for which IL is de-
signed In this will be placed at the outset some thirty
forty statues hasrcefs and busts being plaster casts
Of the finest products Of ancient art These casts are
the very nc. OF their Kind and repres Mt the originals
with absolute accuracy The subjects have been selected
with the care 20 include as much possible Of
the best Greek ant and at The time 10 include moth
ing which shock fastidous modern TASTE or un-
suitable for % girls school.
The casts havoa all arrived with the exception Of
invoice expected every day from London and stored
in the school building When the list Is complete they
will be- placed ON their pcdystals and 0iled-a work OF
FEW DAYS only--thc win be opened with some ap
proprate public exercise. and henceiorth 10 will be &c
c ble not only 70 the pupils of this and other public
schools but 10 the public generally or such choose
visit IT, u viii DE decidedly the most interesting oouec-
ton of its Mind In this country. Hnt The mns notahe