New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-16

:eipsjc Munich and those in Italy and France While
in Paris Professor Boyeseu made the acquaintance
Victor Hugo, NJ Renan, Alphonse Daudct ana iursc'
nief.
At the recent Firman DidOt sale in Paris,
633 600 francs fSloG 6Oo were realized from the five
days sale The remaining portions Of the collection
being the fourth expected next May 70 bring the total
result up 10 100000 francs Sl ,0OoO0Ol Among tne
remarkable lots recently sold were the Queen Catherine
(gifc OF Henry W mssa which brought sl3,2oo' inc
"Munuscrt dc Bure" 5000; "a missa for the use OF
Mont.Cassin" 81, 400; first edition Of n work OF g.
Derandus. 81 300. bought for Berlin; missa TOT te
use HierOny of Spaln $46O, bought LOT Lou
doa very rare copy OF work printed a, a.
manuscript which belonged TO Mary queen Vi 0'o''
fetched $4,000.
Certain criticisms of HamertOn's Life OF
Turner" made by a Boston paper have called out pr
vate letter from Mr. Hamerton, in which he has ie"
words TO- say of his book that will interest those VINO
have read It. "Itis quite unnecessary" he writes,
reply to It Ube crticsm) The book itself e accessible
70 all Americans who about its subject, emo tcy
Will see for themselves that IL Is without maleVoehc
and only perfectjustice. There Is one point on
which should like 10 offer explanation. The
diagrams of Kilchurn Castle and Ben Broachan which
Illustrate Turner's topography, though sufficiently good
for the purpose were not drawn by me- / made draw
ings which Photographic reproductions appeared IN
The Portfolio but unfortunately happened that our
printers establishment in London was burned down ana
the blocks destroyed in the fire. When the Lie
Of Turner was made into volume, the original draw
ngs were sought for vain and there no time
to apply to for ones, my London publisher set
an artist to copy the reproductions. ne m9 ms woh
meuI Int his dyaNipes are not such as should Ike to
be directly responsible for. There are faults In them
the argumenD are nevertheless such as better arst
would be careful not to commit"
There died recently in Paris NJ. Charavay,
dealer in autographs, who once wrote paper ON
autograph forgerles and among other cases. related
the history of the remarkable Vrain Lucas forgery
Vrain Lucas was a Paris dealer fifty years ago. and
had supplied NJ Chasles, French mathematician and
member OF the French Academy of Sciences with letters
alleged 10 be from Blase Pascal 10 Sir Isaac Newton,
in which Pascal made statements that led to the assert
ing by Chasles Pascal and not Sir Isaac was the
real discOverer Of the Law OF general attraction Sr
David Brewster took up the defence OF Newton, and was
supported in his view by eminent French scientists,
among them Leverrier NJ. Chasles had many
supporters, the late NJ. Theirs being among
them. The debate spirited and persistent
and came TO an ending when 1t became apparent from
the great number Of the letters that they not gem
uine Whenever NJ. Chases needed new argument to
meet his opponents Vrain Lucas conveniently found
point for fresh from Pascal to Sir Isaac
After the fraud had been laid bare NJ Chases began to
betlink HIM whether other letters from great men
which had bought Of Yran Lucas were not forgeres
OicOurse, great many such were found, showing In
certain cases startling illustrations OF what hu-
man crcduty sometimes becomes NJ. Chasles
had In his possession fewer than 27-
600 forged autographs, for which he had paid
q total OF between 100000 and $4,000. and among
them were letters from Alcbiades to Perioles from
Laura TO Petrarch. from Mahomet to French King
from POntus Pilates to Tiberus Cesar, from Alexander
to Aristotle from Cleopatra to Antony, aud from julius
Caesar to yercingetorix There was tia OF NJ Vrain
hts cot enc he ~
that the letters though forged were well worth the
money they had cost tncs Le! MSrJ , ,t, a. te
OF their kind and embodied HISTORICAL truths uhdef te
pQuuLcy OF a new shape.
Madame Lebrun in her Souvenirs" gives
few vivid pictures Of life I'm France at the outbreak OF
the great Revolution. The dreadful year, she says
Of 1850 began and fear had taken hold of the wsest
amongst us" One evening she invited few friends TO
concert mt her house. They arrived with consterna-
ten depicted on their faces" That morning they had
been to Longchamps and they entered the city on
their return the pOpuace abused them along the road
Rough spraug to the carriage steps and cried out
Next year you will be behind your carriages and we
shall be inside" Among this party was Madame dc
Vette VOtaire's beauty, who was the least terri
fed" Madame Lebrun's former house, In which she
had lived for three months, was marked by the
mscreants" They threw sulphur into the collars, and
when she stood at her own window brutal sans
culottes shook their fists" at her On every side she
heard all rumors and lived she sayf In
u
orable 18th of October, the day which the King and
Queen brought by the armed mob from Versailles
to Paris Madame Lebrun and her friends took flight to
Italy All along the road to Lyons men on horseback
approached the diligence and told them the King and
Queen had been assassnated and that Paris fire.
Among the portraits which Madame LobTun painted In
Rome was one of the famous beauty the Countess Po
tocka leaning against q messy rock with waterfalls
behind IT, One day the Countess called with her hus
band aud when he had left them alone the Countess
said " 1t is my third husband, but think shall take
up the first again. who suited me better although he
was a regular scamp" Pope Plus VI, whom the artist
thought one OF the handsOmest men she had seen.
wished her make his portrait She greatly desired 10
do so, but since II necessary to be yelled while
painting His Holiness, and fearing she could not under
those circumstances do ii well she felt compelled, she
says, to decline the honor. Before her marriage the
Marquis de Choiseul was among her admirers, which
enraged her. for he had jus; married lovely grlan
American Of sixteen summers" aud do not believe"
she adds, pretter creature ever lived" Il. Worth
ingtOn published her book last Saturday.