THE death is announced of Dr. W. Sewell, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and formerly Warden of Radley. Besides contributing copiously to theological literature, Dr. Sewell published translations of the Odes and Epodes of Horace and the Georgics of Virgil, &c.

SCIENCE

MARINE SURVEY IN INDIA.

AFTER years of neglect, the survey of the coasts and harbours of India is about to be resumed. When the East India Company ceased to be the rulers of India, all the valuable charts collected by the hydrographers of the Company were handed over to the Hydrographical Depart ment of the Admiralty as the proper department of the Imperial Government, upon certain conditions relative to the publication of the surveys, &c., and, although much has been accomplished in the way of engraving and publishing the charts, it is a strange fact that not one surveying vessel has been detailed, either to complete the parts of the coast unsurveyed or to re-examine those that have, and thus the interests of our great Indian Empire have been neglected, as without charts, and those kept up to the latest date, a country with an extended sea-board is practically deprived of one of the greatest facilities for extending commerce; for, although at one time a bay or small river may be practically useless, the development of some trade, or the discovery of some mineral product, may at once render it of vast importance; thus, the western coast of New Zealand, which was not considered worth more than a cursory examination, has become so important from the discovery of gold as to render a much more elaborate survey necessary; the same may be said, from other causes, of minor ports on the coasts of Chile and Peru. Upon examination of the charts of the coasts of British India, some have been found incomplete, large portions of the coast remain unsurveyed, the entrances and mouths of the great rivers are entirely altered in the position nd size of the sand-banks with their corresponding channels. All this shows the necessity of an organized hydrographical staff, not as a temporary expedient, but for keeping and maintaining the knowledge that is so much required.

To Commander A. D. Taylor, late of the Indian Navy, and a practical surveyor, has the duty been entrusted by the India Office of organizing and conducting the survey; and as Capt. Taylor has had much experience in India, it is believed that the survey could not have been committed to better hands; he will be assisted by experienced surveyors from the Imperial Navy, so that he will commence with a staff of officers well qualified to undertake the duties at once.

It is proposed that the first survey undertaken shall be of the mouths of the Ganges and Brahmaputra, to be followed by the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Sittany River, the Gulf of Cambay, and the Chittagong Coast, &c.

We may congratulate the India Office on having decided upon the commencement, or resumption, of this important work. The results of the survey will be engraved and published by the Hydrographical Department of the Admiralty.

THE TRANSIT OF VENUS.

WE have news from Mauritius up to the 16th of October, when the arrival of Lord Lindsay, who sailed from London on the 9th of July, was daily expected. Mr. David Gill, the astronomer, had prepared huts and foundations, &c., and was awaiting the arrival of the instruments. The Plaine des Prêtres has been selected as the site for the measurement of a base line of 6,000 feet, and the terminals will be permanently preserved, the ground being Government property. A system of angles has been already measured throughout the island with a good 12-inch altazimuth, by Mr. Connal, the Surveyor-General; to this some

new stations have been added at Mr. Gill's suggestion, and it is expected that the principal triangulation of the island will be completed before the expedition leaves Mauritius. Many points in the former triangulation of the Abbé de la Caille are sufficiently well known. The three stations at Belmont, Pamplemousses Observatory, and the German station near Mahebourg, are connected by field telegraph and the railway wires for ascertaining longitudes, and on the arrival of the yacht she will proceed to Réunion and back with the chronometers to connect that station. H.M.S. Shearwater has already made two trips to Rodriguez with forty-three chronometers.

DISTRIBUTION OF AURORAS.

AN interesting paper has recently been published by Prof. H. Fritz, on the geographical distribution of the auroral or polar light. Six years ago he had made a similar investigation, the results of which were published in the Trans actions of the Zurich Natural History Society ; the large amount of additional information which has been collected since that time has enabled him now to give greater completeness, as well as attach greater confidence to it. He has thus succeeded in constructing a map on which a series of curves exhibits lines of equal amount of frequency and intensity of the auroras, similar to those wellknown ones which represent the meteorological and magnetical conditions of different parts of the earth. The curves in question stretch farthest to the south on the eastern side of North America, and approach nearest to the geographical poles in Siberia. Thus, Berlin is nearly on the same line with Okhotsk, in Eastern Siberia, and with Charlestown in the United States. The line passing through Drontheim, in Norway, passes across the mouth of the Lena, traverses Behring's Straits under the arctic circle, and in America passes to the north of Lake Winnipeg, and across the southern part of Hudson's Bay. Prof. Fritz notices a remarkable connexion of the line of greatest frequency of the auroral light with the boundary of permanent ice, which is also carried southerly on the American and Greenland coasts where drift-ice is most constant. This is fully consistent with the observations of many Arctic voyagers, who have remarked a great abundance of auroras at times and places when the accumulations of ice have been the greatest; as well as with the prevalent belief in Scotland that, with the increase and decrease of ice on the coast of Greenland, the northern lights become more and less frequent respectively.

SOCIETIES.

STATISTICAL.-Nov. 17.-The following candidates were elected Fellows :-Sir J. Ramsden, Sir F. Lycett, Sir G. Campbell, Sir J. F. Davis, Bart., The Right Hon. D. H. Stone (Lord Mayor), The Hon. G. Pepys, Revs. R. W. S. Moses, E. Couch, Canon Ashwell, Capts. A. G. Reed, D. H. Waterhouse, W. S. M. Rayner, E. M. Shaw, S. R. Welch, Drs. J. T. Arlidge, R. Quain, R. Elliot, A. E. Mackay, J. Morris, C. Kelly, F. Sibson, Messrs. J. M. Spence, H. Waite, D. J. Kennelly, W. H. Overall, C. W. C. Hutton, H. N. Nissen, J. Spicer, E. W. Braybrook, J. S. Phené, C. Hood, J. B. Lawes, T. Woolner, W. H. Davies, J. N. Blyth, J. Hertz, E. W. Norfolk, H. Jones, S. C. Hepworth, J. A. Dow, H. W. Maynard, A. G. H. Gibbs, J. Farmer, G. M. Lang, G. E. Wythes, J. Ferguson, A. M. Ferguson, W. A. Carter, S. Moore, and F. May.The President delivered his Opening Address.

ENTOMOLOGICAL.-Nov. 16.-J. W. Dunning, Esq., V.P., in the chair.-Messrs. R. E. Bull, F. Fitch, and H. D'Arcy Power were elected Subscribers. Mr. Higgins exhibited some rare species of Cetoniida from Borneo; amongst them were Lomaptera Higginsii, O. Janson, and a remarkable Dynastiform insect, named by Count Castelnau Westwoodia Howittii. Also two smaller specimens which had been supposed to be females of the last-named species, but were, more probably,

females of an unknown species.-The Secretary exhibited a collection of fine species of Lepidoptera, sent by Mr. W. D. Gooch from Natal for determination. The Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge sent a note on the curious spider's nest exhibited at the last meeting. It was unknown to him, and had it not been for a remark in Mr. Ward's letter, implying that the nest he found belonged to a geometrical web, he should have conjectured that it was the work of an Agelena. If, however, the nest was appurtenant to a geometrical web, it must belong to a spider of the family Epeirides. He did not think the sand in the nest was at all designed as ballast, but as a protection from the rays of the sun, and also from parasites. Mr. Smith remarked that the mud-coating of the nest of Agelena brunnea did not preserve that species Pezomachus from the nests, and he believed, in from parasites, as he had often bred a species of

those cases, the eggs were attacked before the mudCoating was added. Mr. Champion exhibited some rare species of British Coleoptera, viz., Apion Ryer, Abdera triguttata, Lymexylon navale, Athous subfuscus, Sylvanus similis, and Apion sanguineum.

SOCIETY OF ARTS.-Nov. 18.-Mr. W. Hawes in the chair.-Sixty-nine members were elected.In the absence of General Eardley-Wilmot, the usual Opening Address of the Session was read by the Secretary, Mr. P. Le Neve Foster.

MATHEMATICAL. Nov. 12.- Dr. Hirst, President, in the chair. The chairman drew attention to the fact that, as on his entry upon his office two years ago he had to announce the death of Dr. Clebsch, so now, as he was vacating it, he had to tell the meeting of the loss the Society had sustained by the recent death of its sole remaining German Honorary Member, Dr. Otto Hesse.-The treasurer (Mr. S. Roberts) stated that Lord Rayleigh's donation had been invested in Guaranteed Indian Railway Stock.-Dr. Hirst gave a short account of the history of this donation and its proposed application to help in defraying the expenses of publishing the Society's Proceedings, and in the purchase of mathematical journals.-The Meeting then proceeded to the election of the new Council, and the gentlemen whose names were given a short time since in the Athenæum were declared to be duly elected.-Dr. J. Casey was elected a member. Mr. E. Carpmael was admitted into the Society. Messrs. H. Hart and Nanson were proposed for election. - Dr. Hirst gave an account of his paper 'On Correlation in Space,'Mr. J. H. Röhrs read an abstract of his communication 'On Tidal Retardation,'-and a paper, by Prof. Wolstenholme, On a New View of the Porism of the In- and Circum- scribed Triangle,' was taken as read.

ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.-Nov. 10.-Prof. Busk, President, in the chair.-Reports were read, by Mr. F. W. Rudler, 'On the Anthropological Department of the British Association at Belfast,'

-and by Mr. Hyde Clarke, 'On the Anthropological Section of the International Congress of Orientalists, recently held in London.'-A paper was read by Col. Lane Fox, 'On a Series of Flint and Chert Arrow-Heads and Flakes from the Rio Negro, Patagonia, with some Remarks on the Stability of Form observable in Stone Implements.' The series of specimens exhibited was selected from a collection of 500, gathered by Mr. W. H. Hudson on the margin of the river, and over an extent of about ninety miles; and on the numerous lagoons, now mostly dry, with which the valley is everywhere intersected. The valleys in that region run through high-terraced table-lands; and on the plateaux above there is no water and but very scanty vegetation, which would seem to indicate the improbability of their having been occupied by man. A number of the implements were discovered by Mr. Hudson on the sites of villages along the valley, and in circular flattened mounds of clay, measuring from six to eight feet in circumference. The different styles of workmanship observed in the different villages were not,

AT the Séance of November the 9th of the Académie des Sciences, letters were read from M. Janssen, written on September 26 at HongKong, which he was about to leave in a few days for Yokohama. He describes especially the great dangers to which the Transit Expedition was exposed during the terrible cyclone which caused so much destruction on the night of the 23-24 September.

THE death is announced of Dr. E. Smith, F.R.S., Assistant Officer to the Local Government Board.

A SYSTEMATIC Catalogue of the collections in the mineralogical Museum of the University of Berlin, by the late Gustav Rose and Dr. Sadebeck, has recently been published.

LORD SALISBURY has re-organized the Depart ment of the Reporter of Products of India and the India Museum in the most thorough and efficient manner. The more important of the new appointments have already been announced. The transfer of the Museum to South Kensington will commence early in December.

FINE ARTS

EXHIBITION of CABINET PICTURES in OIL, Dudley Gallery, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly-The EIGHTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION. -Open daily from 10 till 5.-Admittance. 18; Catalogue, 6d. GEORGE L. HALL, Hon. Sec.

The TENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS, by Artists of the British and Foreign Schools, is NOW OPEN at T. McLean's New Gallery, 7, Haymarket, next the Theatre. -Admission, 18., including Catalogue.

NEW BRITISH INSTITUTION GALLERY, 391, Old Bond Street-The TENTH EXHIBITION of SELECT PICTURES by BRITISH and FOREIGN (chiefly Belgian) ARTISTS, is NOW OPEN.-Admission, including Catalogue, 18.

IS NOW OPEN, the NINTH EXHIBITION of the SOCIETY of FRENCH ARTISTS, 168, New Bond Street Daily, from Half-past Nine till Six.-Admission, One Shilling. The Galleries are lighted up at dusk. CH. DESCHAMPS, Secretary.

but commonplace; some are anything but successful as transcripts. On the whole, however, this is a capital book of its kind.

Messrs. Routledge & Sons send us The Hanging of the Crane, by Prof. Longfellow, illustrated by Woodcuts after designs by Miss M. A. Hallock and Mr. T. Moran. The poem we reviewed some months ago. The woodcuts are laboured, and rather defective in spirit of execution, but, as designs, they show good taste and art of a simple and natural kind. A few of the landscapes are extremely pretty, having sentiment and character above the average. Some of the figure-compositions remind us that Stothard was pre-eminently happy in working out a similar vein to that which Miss Hallock has cultivated with graceful care.

Gift Cards for the New Year and Gift Cards for Christmas consist of two packets of cards with designs of flowers and fruits printed in colours, each card bearing short poems by popular writers. There is a good deal that is pretty and graceful in these simple works.

THE SOCIETY OF FRENCH ARTISTS, NEW BOND
STREET.

In two small rooms the managers of this Exhi

bition annually gather a few most interesting examples of Art in a stage of development which is utterly different, if not superior, to that which has been attained in these islands. On looking round the walls here, one sees what it is to be a member of a school where training insures a certain measure of technical attainment, but which has adopted no standard to which all must be brought. The student is satisfied that, to whatever tests the artists of France may be said to submit, they are not at all like those which are said to do so much for education in China and England, as there is absolute evidence of perfect freedom in practice here, and unquestionably the reverse of anything like uniformity of results. No common standard is applicable to Art as practised by our next neighbours.

TORIUM,' with Dream of Pilate's Wife,' Night of the Crucifixion,' 'Christian Martyrs,' 'Crusaders,' &c., at the DORE GALLERY, 35, New Bond Street. Ten to Six.-18.-Brilliantly lighted at dusk and on dull days.

GIFT-BOOKS.

Beauty in Common Things, illustrated by Twelve Drawings from Nature, by Mrs. J. W. Whymper, has been published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and contains, together with poetical extracts from popular authors' works, and prose notices, a dozen admirable chromo-lithographs of common flowers and fruits, the execution as well as the arrangement of which are worthy of high praise. The colouring of these works is unusually true; and their general effect is tasteful. Altogether this is one of the most elegant works of an unpretentious class. It should be acceptable as a gift-book of moderate price. The same Society sends us Mr. J. B. Atkinson's Studies among the Painters, illustrated by woodcuts from famous pictures of many centuries. The letter-press deals in a philosophical and yet readable way with the progress and characteristic motives of the great schools of art and artists from Cimabue to Turner. As the text consists mainly of papers collected from the People's Magazine, our present duty is to recommend Mr. Atkinson's work to general readers and others who may desire to know the opinions of an expert in art criticism and history. The woodcuts are of unequal value. Many of them show, with more spirit than finish, the essence of the works in question; others are

This is the most interesting collection yet made by this Society, and will charm all who visit it. We regard the occurrences of these gatherings as of the highest value in England, and extremely suitable for the edification of our painters, for it is patent that modes of art which are not even attempted here are developed to a high degree in France; and that, notwithstanding the training which insures so much technical power, here is no mere drilling, or cramming, but what is whose art is most thorough is M. Corot, the most idyllic of landscapists, apparently the most absolute dreamer of poetic visions in art. He has mastered his art, and in the apter mode of expression for poetic thoughts which are his own he illustrates the loveliness of the earth and air, and, in what seems at first the most indeterminate way, is really among the most exact and laborious students of that ever exact element of painting, form where nothing seems to have an edge, all is most admirably, nay, exquisitely modelled, and drawn with something like perfection of outlining. With the indeterminate elements of landscape art, such as aerial effect, local and general colour, M. Corot deals so that few surpass him. With what may be considered as the scientific disposition of a picture, we mean chiaroscuro and composition, few are so fortunate. These are the means by which poetry is expressed in art. Seven pictures before us show how these means have been employed, and each of them is an idyll. The first which calls for notice is A Lane in Picardy (No. 1), a vista of trees at the sides of a road, with bars of shadow and light, a sky of exquisite pearly tenderness of hue and delicate tone. The next is a simple gem of perfect order, styled Outskirts of a Wood (22). No. 33 is called The Windmill, and shows a line of spindling trees receding to our left, a mill in the mid-distance; a masterpiece of tone and lovely colouring: notice the fine draughtsmanship of the trunks, the freedom and precision of the boughs. Canal Scene, Holland,

(48) is inferior to none of these,-boats, cottages, Dante and foliage in sunny, vapour-laden air. and Virgil (67), a large picture, was at the Salon a few years since; the poets walk in the twilight avenue. In the upper room will be found A Woman Leading a Cow (108) and The Bay of Naples (139).

M. Fantin is also an artist in the truest sense of the word. Like M. Corot, his works are peculiar, but they are the reverse of mannered, though perfect examples of idiosyncratic style. So to say, the language of these painters is always the same, but the thoughts are never the same: each gives a new idea on each canvas. M. Fantin's flower pictures are more purely technical triumphs than M. Corot's landscapes: they are idylls in their way, but suggestive of little else than harmonies of tone and colour, delicious in fidelity to nature, but not, so far as the subjects are concerned or the motives they express, pathetic. M. Fantin is the best flower-painter, in the higher artistic meaning of the term, in Europe, and very few of his predecessors have approached him in handling, in skilfully harmonizing colours and tones. See his Rose-Tree and Oleander (2), a tall standard of the former flower, and of the latter a branch in deep pink. The half-tints of the roses seem to be fective in arrangement; nevertheless, let the

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too black, and the whole is comparatively destudent consider how solid is the workmanship. From this let him turn to Clove Pinks (6), a masterpiece of painting, a perfect study of the striped flowers, their sanguine and white streaks. next is Fruit (10), pears and a peach; magnificently luscious and crisp in tint and touch, and broad enough for Velasquez. Two pictures by M. Fantin form a pair," being White Roses (25) and Dahlias (28), bunches of such blooms placed in blue jars. The warm white of the former is derived from the fading of the flowers, many of which have faded, and tawney edges and crumpled leaves abound among them. They are autumnal blossoms, marked by the most exquisite gradation of tone, and the richest variety of tone. In respect to colour this is, of course, a study in harmonies of warm white in what may be called a high key. As to handling, it is a masterpiece of solidity. In their way, nothing of modern painting can surpass these examples. Refer to 'Dahlias,' and study the exquisite yet bold balancing of full and half tints of red, and the supreme solidity of the workmanship throughout. The finest of M. Fantin's productions here is Pinks (46), flowers of that sort standing in a square glass. It is a work of extraordinary brilliancy and power; splendid, yet quite harmonious in broad and deep colour. With the richness of execution which distinguishes ancient pictures, this one has the lustre of modern modes in painting. See also Peaches (50), Roses and Fruit (83), Roses (107), and Peonies and other Flowers (142).

Mr. Alma Tadema sends two studies made during a recent tour in Germany, The Minster, Münster (8) and Münster (11): the former gives the interior of the famous church, looking over the crossing and beyond the screen, showing part of the east wall of the transept illuminated by the afternoon sun. There is here exquisite breadth and richness of light and shade; the effect of light on the walls varies in tint as it comes from one or another part of the compass observe the wealthy tone and exquisite feeling for Nature in the distant white walls, and in the treatment of the under side of the nearer great arch. The keeping of the low screen, and that of the lines of stalls nearer to us, with the figure in the latter place, is triumphant. With even more impasto than the painter usually displays, this picture is as pure and brilliant as it is rich and deep in tone and colour. Technically speaking, it is a perfect study of local and general colour, and in the harmonious treatment of light and shade with colour, almost magical chiaroscuro is produced. The observer relishes the aerial effect with zest proportioned to his knowledge of nature. We consider this little study to be worthy of the closest attention from those who wish to become familiar with examples of what may be achieved by technical powers of the rarest

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kind applied with unusual energy and happiWhile we have thus expressed our admiration for the art of this comparatively unimportant study, we must not forget the pathos of the subject; this is what nature made it, sympathetically rendered. The little work is acceptable as an illustration of the higher kind of achievment in art, per se; its merit is not the less powerful, because, as with other studies proper, it is not difficult to separate the art from the subject. Now, as the subject is apt to predominate in English design, and half our pictures are but "illustrations," it behoves those who wish well to painting in this country, to look with all possible earnestness at such specimens as those abovenamed works of accomplished painters, MM. Carot, Fantin, and Alma Tadema.

Painted for painting's sake, as one may say, is M. Ribot's Study of a Head (15), with fine flesh execution; an intensely ugly, but anything but vulgar subject, admirably treated.-M. De Molins, in The Meet (19), sends a cleverly treated sketch of hounds at the outskirt of a wood, waiting, with huntsmen behind: the dogs are capitally designed, and grouped with skill; the spontaneity of this example makes it delightful; it is painted with great felicity of touch and breadth.-A Fishing Village in Normandy (20), by Isabey, will attract the admirers of the artist's skill, and his feeling for nature in homely landscapes.-Georges Michel's Fishermen on the Seine (24) is characteristically rich and beautiful; a very good example of painting, by one of the ablest of modern landscape artists. The Beer-Drinker (27), by M. Roybet, shows high technical skill in its capital draughtsmanship, rich, and solid painting. We may say that its colour is rather too positive, and not well disposed, but portions are isolated, like the tints on a map. This work shows much insight into character and humour.-Another landscape, by Georges Michel, comes next, being Mill on the Slopes of Montmartre (29). The scene gives a ridge, from whence we look over a flat with innumerable wide belts of field and foliage; the mill is near the centre of the mid-distance; the whole appears under a vast grey rain-cloud.-M. J. Dupré's Road near L'Isle Adam (32) is of that excellent but still rather "popular" class of art which needs no expositor, and invokes attention on its own behalf. We have great respect for the skill and love of nature which distinguish M. J. Dupré, but feel that enough has been written about them, and, in their case, that "all is not gold that glitters." France has produced no good landscapist whose works can be so easily read as those of this artist; moreover, they

are numerous.

Technically speaking, one of the very finest things here is M. Alfred Stevens's Lady in a White Dress (40), a wonderful study in the harmonies of white and rose colour, with superb brushcraft to boot. M. Stevens is one of the finest artists in Europe, a painter for painters. In knowledge of colour, chiaroscuro, and the mysterious harmonies of tint and tone, there are not six men living who are fit to compete with him.M. K. Daubigny's Thames at Chelsea (41) is interesting, not only for its technical value, but as representing, in a fine artistic mode, Óld Swan Wharf, one of the ancient picturesque sites which have been "improved" away. A beautiful group of houses, rich in composition, and delightfully bold and deep in colour.-Here is a small picture by Troyon, styled Harrowing (43), a group of white and brown horses, with men in blue blouses elements which, all over France, lend themselves to produce good "colour," much in the same way as, from opposite causes, old red brick houses lend themselves, in English landscapes, to the same result. This never occurs with the wretchedly coarse and tawdry yellow bricks now

in vogue with " cheap" builders; still less can good colour, that crowning charm of suburban landscape, be expected to attend the employment of the garish buff or yellowish white bricks in which denizens of rural cockneydom delight. Everywhere about large towns the so-called "malm " built houses erected now-a-days produce bright

blotches on the scene; the least sense of colour ought to teach us that the lush varied and deep hue of the English verdure, rarely seen elsewhere, goes finely with the complement of the deep and varied red so easily attainable in brick, and so delightful in old English structures. -By M. K. Daubigny we have another landscape, Pavé de Chailly, Forêt de Fontainebleau (51), a vista of dark trees at sunset. By M. Millet is The Old Stone House (52), which is curiously naïve: in that respect it is like an old English watercolour drawing, but wrought in a richer and finer key, consequently with incomparably greater art than that of our predecessors. It shows a square structure of rude design, standing on a little knoll, with foliage and herbage of deep green surrounding it. Notice the delicate wealth of the tints of the stone walls, with their weather stains, their irregularities of texture and surface, their worlds of broken reflected and direct light; the apparently inexhaustible richness of the tints of grey, purple, orange, yellow, and red, which, in fine gradations, and in very low keys, appear on the surface of the house. There is a lovely phase on our right, masses of foliage, with a bright blue firmament above. In the upper room the student may see a collection of drawings, apparently designs for some of the more remarkable among M. Millet's landscapes and idylls. These include the Millet's landscapes and idylls. These include the famous Angelus (131), Calling the Cows Home (133), Digging Potatoes (129), Men Digging (135), The Wayfarers (136), and The New-Born Calf (126); also the interior, Churning (138).-By M. C. F. Daubigny we observe On the Banks af the Oise (59), The Thames below Greenwich (63), The Cooper (97), which was in the Salon of 1872, and On the Oise (147).-By M. De Nittis is a pretty and lively picture of a member of the demi monde in her pony carriage, driving In the Bois de Boulogne (57).-By M. Humbert is a fine, grave, and powerfully painted Study of a Head (61).

Among the pictures which will attract most attention here is M. Legros's Portrait of Thomas Woolner, Esq., A.R.A. (66), a noble portrait, wrought with rare elaboration and consummate breadth of tone and colour, and as solid as flesh and clothes can, by careful modelling and learned handling, be made to appear. The force of characterization and the excellence of the likeness are undeniable; the features are like the life, the "air" of the picture is the "air" of the sculptor, to whose skill and genius the world is so much indebted. The shortcomings, we dare not say defects, of this work are, that the face is longer, less square in its proportions, and the forehead not so broad and massive as in nature; nor is the drawing of the eyelids quite so fine as that of other features, e. g., the perspective of the curves of the lids is not thoroughly expressed. We are thus made to feel that where the lower part of the face is supremely well drawn, the lids should have been elaborated to an equal degree. There is a certain irritability and feverishness in the expression of the eyes: we should have preferred a caimer and graver, if not more dignified look. The likeness would have been improved by this means. By the same is an admirable Portrait of Mrs. *** (68), a a brilliant and rich painting; a treasure of art in flesh, superbly modelled. A very fine piece of chiaroscuro in light is the landscape of a hollow in chalk, with trees, and sunny sward, styled Souvenir of Berkhampstead (26), by M. Legros.-We notice Robert Fleury's Rent-Day (74), likewise several charming landscapes by Madame M. Cazin, The Cornfield (98), Cutting Hemp (101), The Old Manor (house), Possingworth (85), M. Zeim's Cows in Water (120), and M. J. De Vriendt's Mother and Child (122).

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over one of the shoulders, admirably dispose to give bulk to the general appearance. The head is full of dignity and energetic expression, witho exceeding that reserve which is due sculpture in this respect the pose of the whee is in thorough keeping, so that the homogeneity of the design is perfect. The costume is, of course that of this day, and most carefully modelle in all details. The varying characteristics of different positions of the dress are rendered with rare skill and fidelity, such as Mr. Woolner has so frequently shown. Although these details are thus elaborately treated, as they should be in all modern memorials, the breadth of treatment which is desirable has not been affected in the slightest degree; indeed, this statue surpasses, in this point, any of the sculptor's former produc tions of a like character. Mr. Woolner never fails to design statues so that they look finely from all points of view; this one possesses this essential of fine sculpture in the highest degree; however we examine it, the lines are stately and yet free from stiffness; graceful and stalwart, the figure seems instinct with life; energetic, without being demonstrative, and ele gant, with abundance of strength. There is no parade of anatomy, yet we see a man within the garments, not, as is frequently the case in modern statuary, coats and waistcoats so laboured that they load the figure, or seem to support it, as well as to render common that which should be dignified. It is so fine a work that one regrets the opportunity has not been taken of procuring a second cast from the mould, to be erected in Eng. land; this has been done with far inferior works, but, as with Mr. Foley's Lord Hardinge, no replica has been insured of what will be one of the chief ornaments of Calcutta. We presume the figure is to be placed on a loftier pedestal than it now occupies, so as, by the foreshortening of its somewhat excessively long lines, to appear quite right.

FOLEY'S statue of General Stonewall Jackson, fo Charleston, is now nearly completed at the Mano Foundry, Chelsea, and is one of the best of the sculptor's works. It is of heroic dimensions; a single figure, standing, with a drawn broadsword in the right hand; this hand grasps, while it rests on, the hilt of the weapon the point of the sword is placed on a piece of rock at the side of the figure, which is thus sustained, and in leaning on it sways slightly towards its support. Otherwise the form is firmly placed, and in repose, with abundance of energy in reserve; the head is turned a little to the left, the face seeming to look resolutely and far off, with a direct and keen gaze. The costume is modern, a horseman's short tunic, girt by a broad belt, and buttoned close on the chest, with a military collar. Strong riding boots, reaching above the knees, and rather loose trousers, complete the dress; the head is bare. The modelling is good, but not so elaborate as Mr. Woolner's; yet it is, with estimable breadth, sufficiently true to nature, and much truer than is common in modern sculpture. The figure looks best from the front, but composes well in the side views. From these three standpoints the spontaneity of the design is deserving of admiration. In this lies the highest charm of memorial sculpture. The defect of the work is in the face, which lacks vivacity, and even poetic suggestiveness.

A COMMISSION has been appointed in Paris to decide whether the statue of Jeanne d'Arc, not

long since put up in the Rue de Rivoli (Place des Pyramides), shall be taken down again as unworthy to continue to stand.

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A COMMITTEE, appointed to decide whether or not a carriage-way should be made through the garden of the Tuileries, has reported against this