The Portland daily press., 1881-06-10
Gossip
About Men and Women.

Franz Liszt, the master of Won BGlow twen-
learn from his pupil.
German merchant, Herr Schneider, has
promised mosaic tile floor for the chapel
which is to be built on the place where the
Russian Emperor met his death; the peasants
of the Novoselo district offer five hundred bar
rels of cement, and q brick maker half mil
lion of bricks.
The pianoforte of Donizetti, the composer of
Lucia di Lammermoor, is exhibited at the ma
tional exhibition in Munich. On the nutwood
cover is copper plate on which is engraved
a passage taken from letter signed Gaetano
Donizetti. written to his brother-in-law, Adyo-
cate Antonio Vasselli; "Never sell for any
price whatever, this piano-forte, it enclosed all
my musical life from 1922. 1 hold it in my
ears. There YOU may hear the marmurs Of
Anna Bolena, Marie di Rohan, Fausta, Lucia,
Roberti, Aio Furioso, Pario, Belisario, Marino
Faliere, l Martiri, CASTILLO, 'Ugo, Pazzi Pia
Rudenz-Oh, let it live as long as livel I
lived with this the period Of hope, of conjagal
life, of home. 1t heard my Joys, it saw my
tears, my delusions, my honors; divided with
me the sweat and the fatigue. With that lived
my genius. In that lives every epoch of my
career or thine or of thy careers; thy father thy
brother, all that we have lived, known, all
that tormented him; it was companion of all,
and may it be eternally to thy daughter dow
ry OF thousand thoughts, sad and gay.'
The English artist, Mr.. John Collier, has
presented to Edwin Booth his picture, which
has been hanging this year at the Royal Acad-
eniy, entitled 'The Curse of Rome" and rep
rescnting Mr.. Booth as Richelieu.
The Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne.
has evidently been reading ga Sailors Sweet
heart with admiration, for she has completed
a water-color sketch of William Lee, the hero,
lashed, as he IS represented, in the top of the
water-logged brig in the south Pacific.
Talking OF portraits, I saw among the fin
issed pictures in Mr.. Millais's studio the first
painting Of Lord Beaconsfeld, which struck
me as about the strongest bit of work Of the
kind the artist ever did. He has drawn the
head nearly in profile, and blocked it out with
such tremendous force and fury of his art.
that even in this rude form it looks the great
man in all his sardonic, self-assured power,
his deep set dark eye cleaning with the keen
est intellect, and his massive mouth and chin
being set with stern resolve. Altogether it is
portrait of wonderful fascination in its rug
ged truth and living individuality. They say
that Millais painted his portrait Of Mr. Glad
stone in five hours, but this must have been
dashed Off IN an ecstasy of as many minutes.
Art laughs at time.-Labouchere in London
Truth.
J. @. A. Ward has received commission to
make statue to commemorate the discovery
of North America by Lief, the Norsema an Il.
The statue is to be placed in front of the Bos-
ton Art Museum, and will cost $4,000. The
figure will be of bronze, eight feet in height.
1t will represent ga youthful, manly figure,
having the head covered with horse-helmet,
while upon the muscular shoulders descend
the falling locks of the hero. The boiy will
be clothed in shirt of mall double-handed
limbs. The attitude will express the trium-
phant surprise with which the hero looks
about him on the shores of the new world''