New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-28
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LITERARY, ARr..AND THEATRICAL GOSSIP.
A DULL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS STATUES
AND BUsTs-rHE ART MUsEUM-rHE Lee
TURERS--THE THEATRES. .....tI .....I VI. t'
BOsruN Jan. 26.-YOu might as reasonably
ash for strawberries for literary news II not In
season Unless you will DO content with last years r't
preserved in sugar. such waxen limitations "a have
neither taste perfume, can give you none-or' ~
best but meagcr cluster, Of hothouse growth
Messrs James r. Osgood Co. are to receive from the
binder Saturday morning Prof. LOwells Ny Study
Windows" fanciful title which, the author rather I'M
patiently protests In his preface, s not his taste but his
publishers Tho essays will include beside those a.
ready mentioned, pleasant and friendly little sketch OF
Emerson a. Q lecturer, with "reminiscences OF the ad
dresses Of tho philosophers early life. which Mr. Lowell
contributed two years ago to New-York Journal
Mcssrs Roberts Brothers have added single book to
their list since my last letters volume Of the lectures
and essays Of the Rev. John Weiss, which Will appear
about May It will include the address on The Ameri-
Opportunity" which Mr. Weiss delivered In the 0r-
cuura Hall here last Sunday and others In the
same vein Mr. Weiss longer occupies the pulpit but
rcs his shafts Of scornfu criticism much mt the UNI
tarians whose fold he formerly reckoned "a ut
the less liberal denominations The theological arena
has learned writer one with keener felicity
Of simie and illustration.
Mics Louisa Alcot her publishers learn, is at Rome,
entirely wen, IN happy defiance Of some reports which
had mysterousiy become current I'm this neighborhoOd
Of fatal attack of diphtheria She Ia working with In
creAsng industry her book which il to be "Jos
Boys" further continuation Of the vein so successfully
worked in " Little Women" .l ..-. ,-.."t
The Riverside Press 1T Cambridge s busy In the prep
araton OF "a Handbook Of Legendary and Mythology
cal Art" by Mrs. Clara Erskins Clement, wealthy and
accomplished lady of Chicago who Ia here superintend
ing publication Of her book. II Ia sort Of art cyclo-
pedia giving alphabetical order brief and Intelligent
statements, unncumbercd by comment. of those myths
and legends OF classical and Christian life which are fire.
quently occasionally used In art Artistic symbols are
also explained and scattered through the volume are
many illustrations which make the descriptions clearer
The establishment expects II have ready for publ
cation In February the Compromised volume of auto
biography by Hans Andersen brought down to date by
the author, and first translated into English; and
another volume of the Danish writer's shorter stories
for ehildron. The Riverside publishers have added to
their announcements a novel. " From Fourteen TO
Fourscore" by Mrs. s. W. Jewett.
MATTERS.
Thomas Balls statue OF Gov. Andrew, in marble,
has arrived at the wharf here by q sailing vessel
direct from Italy will he week or two before 1t can
reached In the unloading Of cargo and placed In the
niche prepared for IL in tho State House. When this oc
there will be sort Of public ceremonies, to
mark the gift State from the commit
tee representing the subscribers for it,
II is worth while to in the statement,
sculptor In IN Italy for the purpose OF making
statue Of Gov Andrew, since Mr. Gould, IL one OF the
most modest Of the best OF scupt0ra, and
If his liable TO be mentioned erroneousy IN the
newspapers is not because he bunders In his work
Mr. Gould il not young but of middle age; he is
great admrer OF the Booths, father and son,
has written book about the elder, has carved
bust OF father for the and has also done re-
markabe bust half portrait. half IDEAL of Michael An
gelo He offered design In competition for the Andrew
statnc ~ did Mr. Mmorc, and think Mr. Jackson also:
but Mr. Balls adiudged the best Since he has been
abroad at tme Mr. Gould has INDUCED his taste for
fancifu not only in his statue OF THE West Wind
described I'm your columns week. but also In has
relief Of that most impapable subject, the GHOST In
Hamlet" and his studio at Florence possesses aso
new statue of Cleopatra" differing entirely from Mr.
aorys conception, and representing the yoluptuous
queen in momentof ecstatic passion. This last named
work II described with good deal fof warmth by MI
Jaryes In the current number Of The Art Journal.
i, appears that the State House Is to have also
marble bust of Mr. George g. Boutwell,, number OF
merchants having signcd by letter their intention Of
speedily making the Commonwealth present OF such an
ornament This will nearly I'LL the places in the Dorc
Hall the outdoor positions the terrace are already
occupied by Webster and Mann and II Massachusetts,
desires 20 any OF her heroes in the next generation
in this way must build State House TO accom-
date them The Boutwell, bust Is the work OF Mr. Martin
Milmore who has time engaged upon IL, and
who studio heads Of Wendell Phillips and some
other eminent men, which he would no doubt dispose OF
for any State national gallery on favorable terms
great public meeting Ia to be held early next month,
In Music Hail. TO give stimulus to the Art Museum
project aim Is TO create greater popular interest
in the scheme, by which means subscriptions shall How
in more freely.
LECTURE MArTERs.
The regular lecture Of the all over
in Boston, and not evening announcement In made
But the lecturers only just beginning their harvest
and are scattered far and wide the country doing
harder work and getting better paid fort than any other
class OF laborers known 70 civilization. Mr.. John Is.
Cough il this Missouri and Illinois He has been
offered $780, in gold, and his expenses out and back
for fifteen IN California In May and has accepted
the proposition. The enterprise ia that OF the Boston
Lyccum Bureau. Wendell Phillips has Just returned
from his trip Of six weeks Duration He went
an far Illinois, and will probably make another journey
TO Ohio. Mrs. Lvermore who ranks next In pop
ularity to Miss Dickinson among the women Ice
tnrers, 10 speaking In Kansas and the Old Bor-
de- r. Rufian region OF Missouri. Nasty Is In
the New this week The alarming sickness
Of his caused him TO abandon or postpone many
of his this Josh Billings In In In
diana and the neighboring States. The Rev. w. H. H.
Murray continues to prove the most popular OF the new
lecturers in New England this year He has spoken at