Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-12-25

| copies and got out unobseryed. The copie
, he colored, and by some means one came t
) this city and one went to Hartford. Churcl
discovered the rape, got on the trail of on
of the copies and followed it to a shop il
this city. where it was left to be framed
lie was Rc0g, and asked to see that pic
ture of the Heart of the Andes OF course
it was produced. \ sudden sweep of the
artists hand and the stolen copy was dam
aged beyond repair. But there was still
thr other copy, and it was thorn in the
fle of Church that he could not discover
{ whereabouts. Some time afterward q
gentleman of this city, who was at his stu
dio, remarked to Church that he had seen
The Heart of the Andes elsewhere OF
course Church denied the possibility of such
a thing. But own it my SELF replied
the gentleman, who had somehow gotten the
Hartford copy. Then Church knew where
the only existing colored copy Of his great
picture could be found, but it was in vain
that he tried to purchase it. 1t owner would
take no price, and Church is still unhappy
50 runs the story. and it Is good enough to
be believed" "
-Four important Egyptian statues in seulp-
tured wood have recently been added to the
Louvre Collection Three of these statues
belong to the earliest Egyptian dynasties,
but the fourth IS apparently of a more
recent date. The Yiceroy Of Egypt sent
a statue somewhat similar to he largest of
these to the Paris Exhibition Of 1869.
but with this exception no work of this
kind belonging to the earlier epochs of
Egyptian art has ever found its way to
Europe.
Some time since, says the London ldteae-
an, an effect was made III the United States,
chiefly in Baltimore and in New York, to
procure funds for the erection Of monu-
ment in honor Of Edgar Poe, and Il sum
amounting, it is said, to about $1,000 was
subscribed. An architect was chosen to cx-
ecute the memorial. and he modelled a ror-
trait of Poe, one of the essential features Of
the work. from dacuerrotype, the be,, re
cord Of the poet that Is now in existence
We are informed that, at this Stage of the
proceedings, further inqiries were made with
regard 10 the project, and, in order to make
matter. secure, the" spirit Of Poe wa
evoked to give counsel in the affair II
we are further rightly Informed. Poe's
esprit, no, unadyisably, it would seem,
declared that the time had not come vet ior
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.eI- was Iei'-"a9Iei' ,.i Ihey nave aug up /
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y W a9hnst9n letter writer says that t"1 /
new pictures N oii. hy Bier-ta-t. are beng .
placed m the Hal oi Representatives. They
were ORDERED several years a-o oy the O'ai-
n.lt'ee on the House Library. and are q be
paced IN She panels ON the -oIth side % tle
chamber. near the entrance from the Speak
cr.- ''.r. That ON the right band of che
Speaker dt>S j. historical work, repre-
-eniins the landing O! ilendriek Hudson on F.
t.e o'nA~ ni TIE Hudson RIVER just north ni .
vet foni. ana shoWins tae entrance o