, 1875-08-01
ODDS AND ENDS

| lQ&CK8T&y HA6 As6lSIeQ In AuaIIAk10R IL
books by Fred Walker, an artist who lately diet
in hid p1ma IN England. Phillip" viz Illus
trated BY Mr.. Walker alone.
| A new marble statue, OF heroic aize, in illus
t1ation Of Longfeiow'a Hlawatha,% by Mr
| Aug. St. Gaudsos, young sculptor, who is 1
native OF New York, but has been studying sev-
era1 years abroad, has just been received from
Roma by ex-Gov. Morgan.
| Numerous Little rude comic illustrations Of pop
ular lines OF poetry fiji The picture-stores. The
| first one. What are the wild waves saying was
excellent, but the vein ia now overworked- Bur-
| lasoue and parody upon good things are admissi-
/ bic only sparlngly. Col. Brewertop, the painter
OF landscapes in oil-pastel," has been turning
his hand to these things. Several OF the water
color aketches OF Fortuny. at the sale ct that
artists effects in Paris, we're purchased for the
young King OF Spain.
There are some clever water-co1ors by F. s..
Church, OF New FoEssa At O'Bren's. 3'The Rev-
erie " il melancholy seedy, disreputable stork,
who apparently has no fTieuda- and nothing to
do but stand moslonlssa against the fat and mo-
notonous landscape and consider. IN Good
Bye" turtle plunees of a log into
the water and leaves his companion lonely.
81 scraping Acquaintance also concerns the
deuizeus Of the sw2mp6, and represents the first
interview OF frog, q turtle: and some SOFT Of
forlorn marine chicken. Mt. Church is nem-
Der OF the New York Water-Coior Society, and
bis works sell readily in New York Without apy
very high protensions. they are humorously con-
ceiyed and cIayerly painted. ThsAa pictures &ze
perhaps by u inches.
The following anecdote ia taken from Le
Figaro: An Auctionear is selling picture
"Going at thirty francs-at thirty, thirty, thirty
too cheap, genslsmen' but have ~ it It your
official who has Just arrived. EXCUSE ma," he
eays, "hat happy to say the artist who painted
this picture died - hour ago>" The auctioneer
resumes the sale, and the picture which came
very near to being Enocked down at so francs
is finally disposed of at 4.500. This il Of course
an exuayaeant invention, but it illustrates bow
pictures enhance in value after the death Of the
artist 8hrewd dealers buy up all the pictures
they can when the artist has \ reputation and ia
old and SICK When the artist dies ths dealer
will quadruple the original price At least.
COSTLY COLLECTION.
A writer in the New York World has visited
the collection Of some mysterious eonnoisseur in
New York and seen some extraordinary pictures.
In an "artissic lumbe1-1oom heaped with travel
eyy' bric-a-brnc, and ~ iDcumbe1ed with boxea
and papers a. merchants cellar OF Z housa-
wife's attic, there were shown him, frst atu:-
ing Of Leonardo, subject .' Herodias -; sccs'ed.
m original Raphael, Madonns; :.s.';' a:us
fourth, nntoretto And Greuxe, an,s :: 'i''-
picture by Angelica Kaufman, wt.!: : Ian,
q SAlvntor Rosa and other not unai. '7s' Ines,
kept their backs turned and would ~: ':s, :heir
faces. The collection il kept by tee os:9t to DO
sold entire.
The account, Of nearly two columns, OF
the pictures aud their history and language. IL
very interesting and intelligent, but eeems M
credible. II there are such pictures, the Metro.
politan Museum ought to have than It slmost
any price.
THE nugErn or ARr.
Tbs fifth annual seport Of the Trustees OF