Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-29
LITERARY AND ART NOTES.

Swinburn's new poem is done.
The posthumous autobiography OF the
Stuart Mill is to be published next
month.
Cbas. Reade. publishes list of the
resources from which he drew materials
for A Simpleton.
There is probability of the Madden
collection of 27,5OO ballads coming to
the United States.
The receipts for admissions during the
late exhibition of the Royal Academy
amounted to nearly el6,OOs.
The Nathan mansion in New York
which has been vacant since the muir
der, is to be sold at auction.
A valuable guano island, not markeu
in the charts, is said to have been dis
covered in Lake Minnetonka, MINI.
A happy couple in Northampton
county, Penn, recently celebrated the
sixty-seventh anniversary of their mar
riage.
The Town Council of Liverpool has
had under discussion a proposal for the
erection of fine art gallery at cost
Of $4,000.
Rinaldo R;naldi, the sculptor, and last
remaining of the scholars of Canova,
died on the 18th ultmo, at the age OF
eighty years.
Winnie Ream's affectionate care "
toward her home circle is illustrated by
the fact that she does not depress it
with statues.
Sir Edward Lee and DR.. Dresser have
just started on long continental tour to
collect art material for the new Alex
andra Palace.
William Kurtz, art photographer, Of
New York City, received medal of
good taste and progress" for his display
Of photography at the Vienna Exhibi
ton.
Julian Scott is now making rapid pro-
gress with great battle picture which
he is painting for the State of Vermont,
and expects to finish it early in Novem-
Der.
The Pail Mall Gazette pronounces Mr..
W. C. Howells Chance Acquaintance"
to be bright and truthful book, but
adds that, as a novelist, his range is
very limited.
Mr.. G. P. A. Healy, the distinguished
American artist, has left Rome and 10.
Gated himself in Paris with his family.
Mr.. Healeys great painting of Frank
lin at the Court of Louis XVI" was
burned at the Chicago fire.
The trisnnial exhibition of the Ant.
werp Salon is now open. The collection
embraces 1916 works. The two most
remarkable pictures in the collection
are Alma Tadema's Claudius Saluted
Emperor " and La Mere du Messie, -
by NJ. C. Verlat.
Two valuable paintings. by French
masters, we're recently purchased for the
Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington,
aud are now on their way from Europe.
They are 1.-THE Death of Cesar" by
Gerome, and The Count of Wurtem-
burg Weeping Over the Body Of Hi,
Son." by AIRY Shelter. The pictures
cost four thousand dollars each.
1t is stated that the picture entitled
Marino Faliero," by Eugene Della
croix, which he tried in vain to sell fol
one thousand francs on its finish, wa.
sold ten years after for twelve thousand
francs. After passing through two Other
hands, it was ultimately bought by Sir
Richard Wallace for eighty thousand
francs, or eighty times the price orig
inally asked.
w. W. Story's Jerusalem in Hei
Desolaiion " is now in London, but il
presently to be forwarded to the Acsd
envy Of Arts. Philadelphia. It is q
noble female figure clad 10 flowing dra
perry; the head, crowned with q kind o.
phylsctery. is finely modelled, the He
brew face having an expression Of min
gled distress and contempt She il
seated as solitary widow" With hei
right arm resting on a square column
broken but sornsnsuted. The general
impression Of the design is that Of ma
jestic sorrow.