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world works for after all.'-Mrs. A. D. T.
Whitney.
Additions are daily made to the English
Longtellow Memorial Committee, which
already numbers about 800, and includes
the most distinguished men in all depart.
ments of intellectual activity.
The well-known novelist, Captain Mayne
Reid, has finally been placed on the pension
list of the United States government. He
was an officer in the lot New York Volun-
teers General Ward Burnett's regiment,
and was wounded at Chapultepec.
Mr.. Hol man Hunt has now about finish
ed his great picture of "The Flight Lite
Egypt" which was begun at Jerusalem six
years ago.
The celebrated German lineengraver,
Professor Eduard Mandel died in Berlin
last month, at the age of 70. He was about
completing his important plate "LsMadon-
na del sisto," by Raphael.
A rare opportunity is placed before art
lovers in New York. One Of the finest of
existing easel pictures of Raphael has
been lent for exhibition ia the Metropolitan
Museum. II is the celebrated madonna
Del Candelabri,' now owned by Mr. Munro
Butler-J tombstone. This is the first of
Raphael's pictures that has ever been
brought to America.
The following is from the Boston Tran
script: "'New England Bygones' is a
boon to true sons and daughters of the soil.
| II depicts old-time characters and sketches
with consummate instinct the SCIENCES SO
common TO our rural life. 1t is general
and individual it brings home delightful
memories it turns back the impetuous ma
ture to cool, restful customs it restores
reverence for the truly mertorious parts Of
the past it incities new love of fadeless ma
| ture; it stirs the emotional life to sacred
issues; it is more than its author meant it
will be bought aud read by hundreds
whose daily careers will be nobler for the
influence 1t exerts kept in the household,
it will be the source of recurrent pleasure,
profit and Inspiration"
THE OLD MASTERS OF BELGIUM AND
| HOLLAND
! $500 is translation, by Mrs. Mary G.
Robbins, of Eugene Fromeutins Les Matt
ress d Autrefois, in which the greatest art
critic of modern France narrates, in most
picturesque and vivid language, the re-
suits of his journeys and reflections among
the museums and meadows of the Low
Countries, The famous painter records his
impressions of the wonderful lives and
works of Rubens, Rembrandt and Van
Dyck; of Terburg, Cuyp, Ruysdael, Metzu
and Frantz Halls; of the Van Eycks and
Nlemling, and of
"lhe Dutch school, in its Exchanging frame OF
agricultural aud maritime Ii fe o. downs, pastures,
huge clouds, and low horizons"
The noble Latin fervor Of Fromentin's
style is perfectly preserved in the transla'
ton. The book is illustrated with full
page heliotypcs Of many of the most famous
paintings OF the Lowland schools OF art.
THE BLACK MADONNA
According to the leading Polish journals,
no such crowd Of pilgrims has ever been
gathered together within the venerable
walls of Czenstochau as that assembled
there the week before last, for the purpose
of celebrating the fifth jubilee of the So
iourn in Czenstochau Monastery of the re-
nowned portrait, said to have been painted
by st. Luke, of the Virgin Mary, known to
Orthodox Slavdom as "The Black Ma
donna" This picture was at one time in
the possession of the Byzantine Empress
Helena. A Ruthenian Prince named Laon
first brought it to Poland from Constantine
pie, and built chapel for it at Beltz in
Galicia. Thence it was conveyed in the
yenr 1882 to Czenstochau by Duke Raids
lay, of 0ppeln, the pious touder of that
famous monastery, and by him dedicated
to the Holy Mother of God Painted upon
u panel of cypress wood in colours that
have backcned in the course of ages, the
portrait a half lengths set in a triple
frame of solid gold plate, only showing the
face and two hands of the Madonna. Each
ct these apertures is thickly edged with
precious stones--one with diamonds and
emeralds, another with rubes and pearls,
and third with brilliants only. The MIN
bus surrounding the Virgins head is also
of thick pure gold richly studded with
jewels. Every known slay type and costume
was abundantly represented at Czenstochau
during the jubilee celebrations, ID which
over two hundred priests took part at open
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