Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-11
LITERATURE AND ART.

A Sunday Shakespeare society has
been formed In London.
Winslow Homer, the artist, is now
making a tour of the Massachusetts
coast.
The King of Bavaria has granted
sum of ST, 400 forms to be expended for
works of art.
1t is said that Mark Twain's next
book will be gobbled up by Hartford
subscription book house.
John Lathrop Motley, the historian,
arrived from Europe last week. HIS
health mas much improved.
The Louvre has bought the statue OF
the Virgin recently discovered at Tour
aine, said to be fine example of six
tenth century work, for 1900 francs.
Mr.. Barthold Auerbach haspubhshed
a new collection Of tales which for
poetic fancy, originality and hearty
geniality, are said to exceed any OF his
former productions.
Objections having been made by
some of the persons mentioned In the
letters, the publication of Mr. Mills
correspondence with Comte has been
postponed for the present.
Edgar a. Poe's craven" has been
translated into French by Stephan
MaIlarme, with original illustrations
byaaEdouard Manet, and has inst been
published in folio form IN Paris.
Autographs are going up in Lon
don. a letter of Kitty Give to David
Garrick brought $50 at auction last
month; DIR. Johnson's MS. Scheme
for Compiling a New Dictionary went
for e57; one of BoswelPs note books,
f47, and a Garrick letter, Is guineas.
A letter from Lord Byron to Leigh
Hunt sold for tl7.
France is TO give us new monthly
periodical entitled Revue PhilOsophiqte,
under the editorship of N. Ribot, whose
recent work on "Heredity" is valuable.
Opinions of all schools will be repre-
scented. The ST. Louis Journal Of Specu-
IatiUe Philosophy, edited and published
by Prof. w. 7. Harris, is the only perl
odical now published out of Germany
devoted to metaphysical inquiry.
The ancient brocade tapestry factory
Of Venice, which is said to have existed
before that at Lyons, and was formerly
employed by the Doges in weaving
gifts for eastern monarchs, and requir-
ing 1900 hands, is being revived by
| the brothers AgninO. The secrets OF
the old workmen who produced stutfs
Of extraordinary richness have died
with the inventors, but the present eff
forts have been most successful.
Edmund Yates Is said by a cores
pendent to have offered distinguished
author ten guineas per week Tor a
weekly portion of a novel Of eight
columns In length, and upon the lady
saving that her terms were double that
| amount to have expressed great sur
prise. WhereupOn the lady said: Il
have long since given up sacrificing my
| bread and butter in order to furnish
gentlemen like yourself with cakes and
VINE"
The LeUdnt Herald describes two
Roman statues lately discovered at
Crete. which have become the property
of the Ottoman Museum of Antiquities.
Both Of these are females. An in.
scription on the pedestal of one gives the
name Of Claudia, ddughteriOf Nero and
his secondwi POppea, who, though she
only lived to be four months old, was
raised by imperial edict to the rank OF
a deity and honored in the temples
The sculptor represents her, however
as a maiden seventeen or eighteen
years old, with an elaborate couture
! The second statue is thought to b
! Poppea, but the inscription has beer
| erased.