Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-08
Art a:sd Artists.

A Roman villa has bcen found at Uhlns-
ton, Berkshire, in the vale OF the White
Horse, and one OF is paTcments removed
70 the AshmOlean Museum, in Oxford.
A sixteenth century attempt TO exclyate
in the Tr0ad for the remains oi Hum hls
been discovered byf'roless1r Franz Ruehl.
of K0nigs berg, in a manuscript diary OF
the period.
II is said in modelling the face for the
colossal statue "I.iberty Enlightening the
World the sculptor, BarthOldi, used his
mother 10 work from. There i said 10 be
a strong likeness, though the sketches In
the illustrated prints give the idea OF
conventional face.
In the city OF Lincoln workmen recently
oxhumed from burial-vault OF the Roman
period number 81 urns shaped like pitch
,rs containing ashes and fragments ~ bone.
They are clumsy. have but ono handle, are
without ornament, and covered with
erccnisb gloze. Several had cups or Saucers
for lids. An oven near by was thought
10 have been used for cremating bodies,
but more careful examination makes II
Norman rather than Roman in age.
Greek scholars are in the field against
Professor S1yce's Interpretation OF The
Critaph found at Brough. England. Mr..
William Ridgcway writes TO The Ac1denly:
" To sum up. the inscription Is IN ordinary
metrca epigram in memory OF youth
called Hcrmes, Syrian in origin, who dled
at the age OF sixteen. The opening lines
are biographicat; then comes the farewell
from the mourncr; last Of all, the prayer
to earth TO take him gently to her breast.
All Ion 10
presence Of such an inscril tioa implies
Grcek-speaking population. Other Greek
inscriptions have been found in England,
two on the line Of Iladrian's wall Zone OF
which i in hexametcr verse;, and another
at Peterborough, in Cumberland, ana an
other metrical one at Chester"
Speaking Of the Early English street OF
London. erected for one Of the attractions
81 tn Health Exhibition, the Saturday
Rerie,r saws: III the visitor Is a man
accustomed TO see with other peoples eyes,
he will 20 home believing that he has en-
ioyed a lic-like presentment OF bit OF
medieval London. But the small residue
who know enough and pry enough 10
reach personal intelligence will apprehcnd
that whas is presented to them after alb
stractiOn has been made OF few SDecilltlfS,
such a. the gate, the church, the balcony,
and the house with the tourelle, is col
lection OF houses Of the ripe sixteenth AMI
seventeenth centuries, inherting, indeed,
the gables Of the Middcs Ages, bat made
Up Of details which mainly represent the
Italian Renaissance in various degrees oi
corruption, and yet remain absolutely I'M
Italian in the general effect. 1t Is, in fact,
not the London which welcomed edward
", but that which was burned in 1861
The Richmond Dispatch appeared yes
terday IN an enlarged form. Ii has in
creased the number Of its columns from
twcnty-eight 10 thiriy-two, and otherwise
expended it, size, until il is nov > per
cent. larger than formerly. Along Win
this improvement il has also put in one OF
Hoes best four-cylinder presses, and re-
furnished its establishment generally. The
Dispatch is an excellent newspaper, ard
with lis improved appearance and fine IA
cilites for enterprise, II will give the pee
pie Of Virginia fir~t-clasS journal. The
growth Of the Dispatch, too, is prime in
dication Of the d,ancemcut Of thr city in
which 1t is published. Baltimore Amert-