National Republican., 1874-05-20
FoRETGY NOTES.

Mr.. Robert Browning's son has chosen the
profession of an artist, and has began to paint.
Two Sevres vases have been sold at Chris
ties for 5000 guiness. Lord Dudley and Baron
Rothsehild were the composing bidders.
A stained glass window has been placed in
the parish church, Folkestone, In memory of
Harvey, the discoysrer Of the circulation Of the
blood, who was born In that town.
The present year Is the four hundredth an
niyersary OF the introduction Of printing into
England. There is to be agrand commemora-
ton.
An announcement is made in the Lthsn1ups
that the speeches and some unpublished polit-
ical writings of the late Lord Lyttou are in the
press, and will shortly be issued with a prefa-
tory notice by his son. The Messrs. Black
wood will publish the work.
Tho forthcoming new edition Of the srEncy-
clopRdia Britannica" Is making satisfactory
progress. The first volume win probably be
ready towards the close of the year. The dis
sertations will not be given ina predatory way,
as In the last edition, but will be Incorporated
in the work.
The brother Of the late Lord Macaulay is
dead. The Rev. John Macaulay was the
younger brother of Lord Macsulay, and son of
Zachary Macauley, of Rothley Temple,
Leicestershire, who, like Livingstone, labored
for the abolition of the slave trade. The
deceased gentleman had, for the last twenty
five years, held the valuable Crown-liying of
Aldingham, near Ulverstone, and was also
Honorary Canon OF Carlisle.
The first step towards the realization of the
project Of q tunnel between Great Britain and
France has been taken. The counsel general of
Arras has, for its part. approved the report;
all diplomatic difficulties have been overcome,
and the. two railway companies chiefly inter-
ested-the Northern of France and the South
eastern company of England-hayc arranged
to supply the funds necessary for the prelimi-
nary works.
A me-honored proyerb has been falsifled in
the life OF Tborwsldsen. Tha: sculptor was
the greatest Of heroes in the eyes of Wilckers
his vdIst- -de-chaubrs, and the old man, who now
takes care of the Thorwaldsen Museum, has
just published little volume of "reminiscences
Of his dead master. The book consists of
fragmentary anecdotes, not very important In
themselves, but, on the whole, adding some
thing ofdistinctness to our conception of Thor.
waldsen. .-. r ..-... "..
The celebrated missal published by Com
salves about the beginning of the seventeenth
century has been reproduced in ehromo-litho-
graphs by the French publisher NJ. Marcia.
The greatest care has been taken to render
this reproduction an exact fac-simile of the
original. Each page of text, It is stated, has
been placed fourteen or fifteen times under the
press, and for the large page illustrations as
many as twenty and four and twenty litho-
graphic stones have been used, each bearing .
different color. It is not often that the jeal-
hidden treasures Of the art of the PENN
sula are thus popularized.
The Athene,sm says: "During the great
French Revolution q daring collector, Du-
fourny, used to get up in the darkness of the
night and take down from the walls the bills
posted there in the daytime, which IL was for
hidden to touch under penalty Of death. The
collection which he thus formed at the immi-
nent peril Of his life is now in the British
museum, as well as very curious collection
of the posters Of 1913. NJ. Firmin Maiilard,
no doubt at less risk, has initiated Dufouruy
during the siege Of Paris aud the reign of the
Commune, ClS70'7l.) The result of his
labors is a collection of 435 bills, published in
one volume, Les Publications de Ia Rue
pendant ls Siege ct Ia Commune paris,
Aubry.O