Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-20
ART AND LITERATURE.

The poet Longfellow and Mark
Twain Will pass the summer at Castine,
Maine.
The Appletons keep ten presses 60
ing on Sherman's Memoirs, yet find
that the demand outruns the supply.
Some Frenchman is expected to make
a historico-mythiologic picture of
Prince Gort schakoff as the Angel Of
Peace.
Miss Harriet Hosmer, the sculptor,
has written a clever little play for
amateur players, which is now in
print.
Joaquin Miller's handwriting is won
derfUlly and fearfully made. 1t is said
to be almost as blind as Rufus ChOate's
or Horace Greeley's.
Carl Schurz is immensely popular as
a lecturer. He is one Of the stars in
the field. and will have a long list Of
appointments next season.
In the art prizes awarded this year
in France a sculptor has taken a medal
for painting and painter has been
equally successful IN sculpture.
1t is rumored that a volume consist
ing Of the most important philosophic-
al correspondence of the late Mr.. John
Stuart Mil, will shortly be published.
The Life and Letters of Lord Ma
caulay," by his nephew, Mr.. G. o.
Treyelyan, III. P, is now in the print
ers' hands and Will be published IN the
next publishing season.
The Philadelphia Bulletin says Of
the alleged decadence of a certain
writer that ''he was lost to us because
he expended too much vital force in
efforts to tell the truth
MISSIONER spends two years in paint
ing a picture less than a foot square.
A test work of this size, representing a
halt of horse in the days of the First
Empire, sold for $4,000 in gold!
One of Tennyson's friends quoted
one of Tennyson's lines, in the poets
presence, as a happy instance of the
natural expression of a spontaneous
thought, and the poet said, 81 smoked
a dozen cigars over that line"
The committee named by the French
Academy to award the prizes of history
has conferred them on IL. Tustel de
Coulanges, author of the "Cite An
tique," and NJ. Charles Yriarte, for his
"Vie dun Patrician de Venise an
XVIIme. Steele"
The handwriting of the poet Gray
has a considerable market value. The
original manuscript of the "Elegy"
has just sold in England for f230, Sir
W. Fraser being the purchaser. At
the same sale the manuscript of Dick
ems christmas CAROL brought 955.
Miss Thomson, the artist who paint
ed the Roll Call in the Crimea, has suf-
fered somewhat IN reputation from the
inevitable reaction against the enthusi-
astic praise which that picture received.
Mr.. Ruskin, however, has come TO her
aid, and praises her last picture, "Qua-
trebras, with the old-time earnestness
that he once reserved for Turner.
Among the revivals of Centennial
literature is Judge Nathaniel Niles
Sapphic ode, called 1.-The American
Hero, written by freight Immediate
" on hearing the news OF the battle OF
Bunker Hill 1t was said to have been
as popular among the soldiers of the
Continental army as "John Browns
Body" was among tie Federals in the
late war.
In Munich various objects of art have
lately been displayed which are remark
able for their brilliant silver hue. 1t
appears that they are mere plaster mod
els covered with a thin coat of mica
powder, which perfectly replaces the
ordinary metallic substances. The
mica plates are first cleaned and bleach
ed by fire, boiled in hydrochloric acid,
and washed and dried. The material
is then finely powdered, sifted and min
gled with collodion, which serves as a
vehicle for applying the compound with
a paint brush. The objects thus pre-
pared can be washed in water, and are
not liable to be injured by sulphuretted
gases or dust.