, 1875-06-27

size, and IL finished without the details which
marked the Accurate copy Of the death mask,
while it brings out tho likeness to the Dxoeshoot
ecd Cnanaos portraits, especially in the clear,
full eyes-
The correspondent at Athens Of the Kotnasche
Ze1t4ny has announced thAt the buildings which
are to form the focua Of the great WORKS Of ex-
ploration there were to be ready for use By the
middle Of May, when the German directors OF
tho undertaking insended to enter upon their
new quarters. It Is anticipated that the work OF
excavation may be systematically organized -
soon ~ the summer heats are over
MICHAEL ANoELo's RousB.
Pripdk Litter from Italu.
There was very little that waa interesting to
me except the house. They show his crutches
and sippers, which latter have nv doubts
about Then there are some autograph letters
and various articles OF furniture, and one or two
akctchcs (rapid models) in WAX. besides some
original drawinga, severat portraits OF hi1nse!,
{noE by nimse}fl and . lot OF things thRt have
no Particular connection With anything The
house '8 IN crowded part Of the city Flor-
ence), and Is not wonderful in any Way. I WIS
pleased to see at the :. Bells Art the other day,
the wax models Of Michael Angeio's might !"
Day, and Evening"" They are perhaps foot
long, and most carefully flushed in eyery re-
spect, all the "details being wrought with the
greatest delicacy- They ara said to have bean
fouad walled up IN his house. aud disprove tha
statues out Of the marble "ithous guide. Par
from it. These small models are Gniahed with A
care and nicety that the " little fellows" amonx
the sculptors would do veil to follow. Our
artistic friend says he has often wondered how
he should have finished the head Of the DAY"
which you remember IL merely blocked cut- Hs
saw exactly when he saw the model.
Hero is good study in ultramatire On u
cain morning re tried the Blue Grotto (at
CAPRI; As havo said, the entrance is from tho
sea, Our pArty-swo gentlemen, two ladies'. and
our hoatman-sos into the little boat for the
purpose, and were told to get cur heads below
tho aides Of the craft, 80 that we should not
have them scraped OF rs We passed through.
Tho euttancn 10 shout feet vide *nd Just high
enough to admit the boat The boat was pad
died to tho base of the cliff under which tha
cave Is, aud the boatman, seizing the rocks over
the opening, waited for = favorable wave to car
r. us in. It came, the boat rocked and grated
against the rocxs, then plunged into the dark
ness. As somebody said about the railway Al
ut. Holyoke, It was tha Devils own inyen-
well repaid for our fears. For some reason. not
explained 80 fur a. know, the water reflects
4 strouG oiua light upon the root OF the
grotto, and. in fact, upon everything. The
ladlas {upon whom, OF course, my ayes naturally
faI) lost ali their color under ita influence, aud
looked like ghosts Of their former selves. The
cave IT, Nc thought, about 100 feat ac-oss, aud,
perhaps, 80 or 80 high, and most gioriousIy blue.
Whist sdded to the pictuzes1ueness, or rather
OF the place, was = fellow who Is ia
the hsbit Of diving into the water for the edif-
cation Of 7isitors, and who, when We entered,
ztood nearly naked at the entrance Of one of the
galleries leading from the main grotto. He
looked like the genius Of the place- After COZ
siderable bargaining, which took away from the
poetry Of the scene, this man consented to 30
into the water for U.s. The effect was quite sur
orisnG. He looked AZ it clothed in tighs-ftting
blue silk, and wherever the water WAS stirred
INTO foam it was OF the sumo color. Altogether
i w2s very remarkable, and well worth seeing.
After passing out BY the SANS pe1ilons way ~
vet sail for Sorrento and drove home, With our
:hree hofaaa abreast, to Castel]amare-