Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-09
SCIENCE, LITERATURE.

A Syracuse lady is studying with
Powers, the sculptor, and is said to be
making rapid progress.
Two monuments are in progress in
Vienna. one 70 the musician Schubert
and the other to Schiller.
Roman antiquities o. great value and
interest have lately been discovered on
the hanks of the Rhine at Brigerbucke,
Germany.
The artist C0uTbet's Imprisonment is
over, and he is at liberty. He viii en-
deavOr to "paintv the horrors Of his re-
cent situation.
The Leavitt Art Gallery New York,
is one of the most delightful resorts on
Broadway. Al lovers Of pictures con-
gregate there.
An international exhibition Of oil
paintings viii take place next year in
Berlin, under the auspices Of the Crown
Prices Victoria.
Mr.. Ernest w. Longfellow, son Of the
poet, is an excellent artist, and has Just
finished a remarkably good portrait o (
his father.
Victor Hugo's drawings are said 70 he
as characteristic and remarkahi rs his
writings. a collection Of th1M is o
TO be published
Photography promises to DO almost as
much for man a. the steam engine. II
assists the painter and the sculptor, the
astronomer and the naturalist.
A @Black and White Exhibition" 50
termed, consisting Of ~engravings, draw
ings and sketchings, is 70 be opened at
the Dudley Gallery early next week.
The London critics say that the pub
LEGATION of NJ. DOre's illustration Of
"Lond0nn confirms the opinion that
the artist has in this work undertaken
a task quite unsuited TO his powers.
Mrs. Southworthis novels, thirty-two
of them, are offered for sale in a box. Il
is said that her last stories are her best.
which is certainly encouraging I'm az
author who writes a half dozen volumes
in q year.
The Duke d'Aumale has purchased for
five thousand six hundred aud ifty
francs Q copy Of "Cesar,s Commenta-
RES which belonged to MOntaigne, and
IA which that famous man had written
his name-
Ruskinis newest volume, containing.
under the title Of Arata P~eHtelici, %
his lessons ON sculpture, is nearly ready
AT Wileyis, with several plates. The
titles Of Mr.. Ruskin's works are very
satisfying.
Miss Whitney (eolorcd), one Of our
American scUlptors in Italy, has tin
ished a remarkable allegorical figure,
representing Rome fallen from her lofty
estate. It has been bought by Mr.. C..
Howe, Of Boston.
The "Cross Of Merit for 1901 has
been conferred on Mr.. Robert Landells,
by the King Of Bavaria, for his series Of
sketches made during the recent war,
and which were published in the Illus
trdfed London NcCs.
It is a somewhat singular fact that, Of
the one hundred and thirty-six members
OF the English Chaucer Society, ffty-siX
are Americans; and that, while only one
library in Scotland and Ireland, and but
ten in England are subscribers, no less
than t~wenty-nine American libraries
and institutions are on the subscription
list.
The sculptor Sheehan is constructing
a group of statuary in Fechter's new
theater in New York, representing poe
try, painting, sculpture, commerce, and
music, which will adOrn the exterior of
the building. The casting Of the statu-
airy viii be bronze, after the style Of the
DeGrOOt-N Vanderbilt medallion, at a cost
of twenty-six thousand dollars.
The National Gallery in London is to
have additional galleries, to cost about
twenty-five thousand pounds, for the
special purpose of the arrangement and
exhibition of the works ~bequeathed the
institution by the celebrated sculptor,
Gibson. Many of Gibson's celebrated
works have been spoiled by bad storage
in Rome since the sculptor's death.
The number Of prizes awarded by the
London Art Union last year was nine
hundred and forty, and the sum allotted
for the same vas thirty-twO thousand
and fifty dollars. The total sum sub
scribed for the year was sixty thousand
dollars. Among the works distributed
vas Birch's marble group, "a Wood
Nymph," valued at three thousand five
hundred dollars.
"A. I. Stewart, of New York, has puT-
chased the Combat of the Alabama
one OF the paintings in the Paris salon
of this year, which possesses much grace
and Yigor. The salon has not given
much room to representative incidents
of the war. The Americans, it is said,
were the principle purchasers Of fine
pictures. The picture most talked about
IS a portrait of N. Theirs, by lIdlle.
J-acquemaTt. The picture is as totally
unlike the little President rs ABRAHAM
Lincoln was, and is the laughing stock
of Paris.
William Traies, the well-knOwnland
scape painter of Exeter, England, is
dead. His paintings were all owned in
the West of England, where they are
greatly esteemed. A remarkable cir
cumstance in the career of Mr.. Traies
was that he would never permit his
pictures to be exhibited at the Royal
Academy, or, indeed, to be sent to Lon
don. His age was eighty-three, Mr..
Traies had three sons, all of whom died
before him. Flank Traies, his second
son, before his death attained cOnsidera-
bic eminence as a cattle painter.
The results of the late excavations in
Pompeii have been more than usually
important. A pavement Of Greek mar
bic was discovered, decorated with
paintings Of various figures, supposed TO
represent the scene of an ancient TRACE
DIV, the Niobe. This is the first painting
on marble that has been found ia Pom
peii, although several have been found
in Hereulaneum. During the excava-
tiOns We're also found several bronze va
ses, and the rudder Of a ship, also of
bronze, belonging to a large statue of
Fortune, which was carried of by the
Pompeiians. Two ~sepulehres have also
been recently found, each containing a
skeleton. One was formed of fragments
of amphoea, which covered the skeleton
from the head to the knees; on this rest
ed a large stone, in the corner of which
engraved, as with steel, the letterC-
Both bodies lay from west to east. Near
at hand were discovered some human
bones, buried apparentlyin the earth. y
distinguished Italian ~aTchaeOlOgist, who
was present, supposes them to be the re-
mains of the Commanders of Spartacus.