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conferred on several venerable bishops . The powers given to the Pope and the origin claimed for the title greiv up long afterwards . The choice of Rome instead of Jerusalem as the seat of the Papacy , was doubtless induced by the fact that the empire swayed the world , and that the priesthood hoped to govern spiritually under its domination . The most ambitious prelate or priest could scarcely then hai-e dreamed that the bishop of the city would hai-e ruled in the scat of the Ca-sars . In the
course of his work AI . Paya touches upon the moot question of St . Paul having preached in England , refers to Notes and Queries of April 16 th , ISaf ) , and arrives at the conclusion that the fact of the saint's visit is not 231-oved , but , on the contrary , that all trace of him disappears after A . D . 66 . In reference to the Budget and foreign reprints , the Publishers' Circular remarks : "Say what we willit is a fact that unauthorized editions
, do find their way here , and are sold here . AA e have seen within this few days , at a respectable bookseller ' s , a Galignani reprint of an English copyright work , ivhich now sells for one guinea and a half , openly offered on a show board for a few shillings , and this while the proprietor of the copyright was literally living within tivo stones' throw . M . Alexandre Dumas's schooner has arrived at Cherbourg , from
Marseilles . "It is a handsome vessel of 110 tons burthen , " says the Phare de la Manche , " with nothing remarkable about it . M . Dumas , in a short time , ivill visit the English Channel Islands and will thence proceed to Norway . " AI . Dumas is at present at Marseilles . M . Louis Blanc has delivered his discourse " On Mysterious Personages in France during the Eighteenth Century , " ivith very great success . He is about to give a course of four lectures at the Maryleboue
Institution . The subject of this series is , "The Salons of Paris in the Eighteenth Century : Social Intercourse—Fashion—Love—Philosophy . " The Fifth and Sixth A olumes of Mr . Fronde ' s History of England from tho Fall of AVolsey to the Death of Elizabeth will be published in
the course of the present month . They are to comprise the reigns of Edward VI . and of Mary . Collected letters' from Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy will shortly appear afc Leipzig . The two editors , Prof . Droysen and Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy , have published an invitation to all those who are in possession of any letters from Mendelssohn to forward the proposed undertaking , by sending to them , either the originals , or very exact
copies of those letters . "The Book of Job in English verse , " by the Earl of AVinehilsea , better known as A iscoimt Maidstone , and the author of the " Deluge , " is announced for immediate publication . A provincial publisher announces , as preparing for publication , a work on " The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham . " The book is to contain biographical sketches of Joseph Eitson the antiquary ,
John Hall Stevenson ( the Eugenius of Sterne ) , the Rev . John Graves , Henry Heavisides , E . M . Heavisides , John AA alker Ord , J . Jordison , George M . Tweddell , and others , with extracts from their writings . On Tuesday evening the Architectural Society held a conversazione , at which Professor Cockerell occupied the chair , ancl congratulated the friends of the society upon the success achieved at only their second anniversary , and also upon tho great number of elaborate works of art ivhich . Avero exhibited . He particularly drew their attention to the
designs for the Manchester Assize Courts , which he believed would "be regarded with great interest . The drawings ancl designs exhibited were many of them by artists of considerable repute , and ivould assist the judgment of those AVIIO inspected them upon the relative merits of medicBval and classical architecture . He believed that out of the great variety of competition something absolutely original would often spring up ; and upon that the public ivould give their decision . There ivere
also many interesting artistic and mechanical works , which ivould be found well ivorthy of notice , in brass , iron , tiles , and other substances . The society invited competition from their friends , both in fashions and materials . He hoped soon to see sculpture added to their exhibition-He believed ifc might be introduce ! with great advantage . Having paid a tribute of respect to the memory of their late president , Earl de Grey who had been a most able , zealous , and obliging assistant in promoting
the objects of the society , the learned chairman congratulated them upon having the patronage of the Prince Consort , and ivished the society every possible success . The visitors dispersed to inspect tho different objects of interest . Tlie principal ivere the twenty-nine designs for the Manchester Assise Courts , including the one which gained the second prize of 150 guineas , by Mr . Allom . There were also a large number of designs and drawings for churches , mansions , and other edifices , which exhibited considerable talent . The specimens of work-
Notes On Literature, Science And Art.
manship and of novel fashions in metal aud encaustic materials were much admired . The French Academic has been busily occupied during the last sitting or two , in the investigation of the merits of clivers discoveries and inventions submitted to its judgment . The newly invented method of locomotion on tramroads , hy M . Juge , met ivith much attention ; but opinion was deferredThe system of MJuge is
entirelnovelm-. . y , a ^ much as the carriage is made to proceed without propelling power of any kind , being guided by hand , and entirely independent of all tho danger now existing . AI . Janin's charming experiments on porous bodies next excited interest , and the savant was encouraged to proceed . An artificial tree , constructed by AI . Janin , was made to absorb the moisture which was poured into the sand iu which it was planted ,
exactly on the same principle that the real tree would have acted , and the gradual ascent of the nutritive gases into the stem , the branches , the leai'es , and fibres of the tree , proved to be one of the most interesting experiments ever witnessed . Acting upon the principle thus indicated by nature , M . Janin applies it to the raising of water to any height , and promises to succeed in an entirely neiv system of forcing pump , which is evidently destined to replace the expensive method hitherto in use .
Air . D . Roberts has for the Royal Academy a picture representing the front of St . Mark ' s , Venice : a regiment of Austrian soldiers is crossing the piazza . From Mr . Millais we shall have the " Parting of one of the Black Bi'uiiswickers Avith his Mistress on the Eve of the Battle of AVaterloo . " Report describes the picture as combining all the care of the master ' s earlier style with the spirit and freedom of his later . Mr . Holman Hunt reserves his " Finding of Christ in the Temple , " the
produet of five laborious years of travel , research , and conscientious thought , for exhibition by itself . The picture is not yet sold , we believe . Afore than one are willing to gii * e the very considerable price justly fixeol on ifc , in consideration of the large outlay of time ancl other expenditure ifc has cost ; but the artist reserves the copyright , as is now the custom . The entire collection of pictures formed by M . Edmond Beaucousin ,
at Paris , has recently been purchased by the Director of the National Gallery . They are about forty-six in number , and , although , for the most part , of very small dimensions , considerable alterations , or rather expedients , have been adopted in tho Gallery for tlieir reception . The
price paid for the collection is said to have been £ 9 , 200 . Eight of the pictures were exhibited to the public last week ; and since that period two long screens have been erected in tho Great AVest Room , placed parallel to each other and in the direction of north and south . Only cabinet pictures are placed upon them , but as the light falls directly from above they are seen to great disadvantage . The already far too narrow room is very inconveniently crowded , and it cannot but be hoped
that some speedy remedy is at hand . The names of some of the best engravers ivere lately submitted to the Queen for her decision as to who should be employed to engrave tho recently-executed portraits , by AVinterhalter , of herself and the Prince Consort . Her Majesty decided upon Messrs . Cousens and Bellin . At the request of an eminent lady , Air . E . G . Papworth took a cast from Airs . Jameson's face after death . This cast is to be used , wo
believe , in preparing a bust of the deceased . Air . Foley has completed his statue of Caractacus , ivhich will bo immediately placed at the Mansion House , London . This artist has also received the commission to execute a statue of Goldsmith , to be placed in Trinity College . Dublin ,
PHOFISSSOB OWBX . —A A'ery interesting and characteristic anecdote of our great naturalist , is given by Air . Leives in the Cornhill Magazine , in his chapter entitled ' - ' Studies in Animal Life" :- — " I ivas one day talking with Professor Owen in the Hunterian Museum , ivhen a gentleman approached ivith a request to be informed respecting the nature of a curious fossil , which had been dug up by one of his workmen . As he clroAv the fossil from a small bag , and was about to hand it for examination , Owen quietly remarked : ' Thafc is the third molar of the
underjaw of an extinct species of rhinoceros . ' The astonishment of tho gentleman at this precise and confident description of the fossil , before even it hacl quitted his hands , was doubtless very great . I know that mine was ; until the reflection occurred that if some one , little acquainted ivith editions , had draivn a A'olume from his pocket , declaring he had found it in an old chest , auy bibliophile would havo been able to say at a glance : ' That is an Elzevir ; ' or , ' That is one of tho Tauehnitz classics , stereotyped at Leipzig . ' Owen is as familiar with the aspect of the teeth of animals , living ancl extinct , as a student is ivith the aspect of editions . "
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Notes On Literature, Science And Art.
conferred on several venerable bishops . The powers given to the Pope and the origin claimed for the title greiv up long afterwards . The choice of Rome instead of Jerusalem as the seat of the Papacy , was doubtless induced by the fact that the empire swayed the world , and that the priesthood hoped to govern spiritually under its domination . The most ambitious prelate or priest could scarcely then hai-e dreamed that the bishop of the city would hai-e ruled in the scat of the Ca-sars . In the
course of his work AI . Paya touches upon the moot question of St . Paul having preached in England , refers to Notes and Queries of April 16 th , ISaf ) , and arrives at the conclusion that the fact of the saint's visit is not 231-oved , but , on the contrary , that all trace of him disappears after A . D . 66 . In reference to the Budget and foreign reprints , the Publishers' Circular remarks : "Say what we willit is a fact that unauthorized editions
, do find their way here , and are sold here . AA e have seen within this few days , at a respectable bookseller ' s , a Galignani reprint of an English copyright work , ivhich now sells for one guinea and a half , openly offered on a show board for a few shillings , and this while the proprietor of the copyright was literally living within tivo stones' throw . M . Alexandre Dumas's schooner has arrived at Cherbourg , from
Marseilles . "It is a handsome vessel of 110 tons burthen , " says the Phare de la Manche , " with nothing remarkable about it . M . Dumas , in a short time , ivill visit the English Channel Islands and will thence proceed to Norway . " AI . Dumas is at present at Marseilles . M . Louis Blanc has delivered his discourse " On Mysterious Personages in France during the Eighteenth Century , " ivith very great success . He is about to give a course of four lectures at the Maryleboue
Institution . The subject of this series is , "The Salons of Paris in the Eighteenth Century : Social Intercourse—Fashion—Love—Philosophy . " The Fifth and Sixth A olumes of Mr . Fronde ' s History of England from tho Fall of AVolsey to the Death of Elizabeth will be published in
the course of the present month . They are to comprise the reigns of Edward VI . and of Mary . Collected letters' from Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy will shortly appear afc Leipzig . The two editors , Prof . Droysen and Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy , have published an invitation to all those who are in possession of any letters from Mendelssohn to forward the proposed undertaking , by sending to them , either the originals , or very exact
copies of those letters . "The Book of Job in English verse , " by the Earl of AVinehilsea , better known as A iscoimt Maidstone , and the author of the " Deluge , " is announced for immediate publication . A provincial publisher announces , as preparing for publication , a work on " The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham . " The book is to contain biographical sketches of Joseph Eitson the antiquary ,
John Hall Stevenson ( the Eugenius of Sterne ) , the Rev . John Graves , Henry Heavisides , E . M . Heavisides , John AA alker Ord , J . Jordison , George M . Tweddell , and others , with extracts from their writings . On Tuesday evening the Architectural Society held a conversazione , at which Professor Cockerell occupied the chair , ancl congratulated the friends of the society upon the success achieved at only their second anniversary , and also upon tho great number of elaborate works of art ivhich . Avero exhibited . He particularly drew their attention to the
designs for the Manchester Assize Courts , which he believed would "be regarded with great interest . The drawings ancl designs exhibited were many of them by artists of considerable repute , and ivould assist the judgment of those AVIIO inspected them upon the relative merits of medicBval and classical architecture . He believed that out of the great variety of competition something absolutely original would often spring up ; and upon that the public ivould give their decision . There ivere
also many interesting artistic and mechanical works , which ivould be found well ivorthy of notice , in brass , iron , tiles , and other substances . The society invited competition from their friends , both in fashions and materials . He hoped soon to see sculpture added to their exhibition-He believed ifc might be introduce ! with great advantage . Having paid a tribute of respect to the memory of their late president , Earl de Grey who had been a most able , zealous , and obliging assistant in promoting
the objects of the society , the learned chairman congratulated them upon having the patronage of the Prince Consort , and ivished the society every possible success . The visitors dispersed to inspect tho different objects of interest . Tlie principal ivere the twenty-nine designs for the Manchester Assise Courts , including the one which gained the second prize of 150 guineas , by Mr . Allom . There were also a large number of designs and drawings for churches , mansions , and other edifices , which exhibited considerable talent . The specimens of work-
Notes On Literature, Science And Art.
manship and of novel fashions in metal aud encaustic materials were much admired . The French Academic has been busily occupied during the last sitting or two , in the investigation of the merits of clivers discoveries and inventions submitted to its judgment . The newly invented method of locomotion on tramroads , hy M . Juge , met ivith much attention ; but opinion was deferredThe system of MJuge is
entirelnovelm-. . y , a ^ much as the carriage is made to proceed without propelling power of any kind , being guided by hand , and entirely independent of all tho danger now existing . AI . Janin's charming experiments on porous bodies next excited interest , and the savant was encouraged to proceed . An artificial tree , constructed by AI . Janin , was made to absorb the moisture which was poured into the sand iu which it was planted ,
exactly on the same principle that the real tree would have acted , and the gradual ascent of the nutritive gases into the stem , the branches , the leai'es , and fibres of the tree , proved to be one of the most interesting experiments ever witnessed . Acting upon the principle thus indicated by nature , M . Janin applies it to the raising of water to any height , and promises to succeed in an entirely neiv system of forcing pump , which is evidently destined to replace the expensive method hitherto in use .
Air . D . Roberts has for the Royal Academy a picture representing the front of St . Mark ' s , Venice : a regiment of Austrian soldiers is crossing the piazza . From Mr . Millais we shall have the " Parting of one of the Black Bi'uiiswickers Avith his Mistress on the Eve of the Battle of AVaterloo . " Report describes the picture as combining all the care of the master ' s earlier style with the spirit and freedom of his later . Mr . Holman Hunt reserves his " Finding of Christ in the Temple , " the
produet of five laborious years of travel , research , and conscientious thought , for exhibition by itself . The picture is not yet sold , we believe . Afore than one are willing to gii * e the very considerable price justly fixeol on ifc , in consideration of the large outlay of time ancl other expenditure ifc has cost ; but the artist reserves the copyright , as is now the custom . The entire collection of pictures formed by M . Edmond Beaucousin ,
at Paris , has recently been purchased by the Director of the National Gallery . They are about forty-six in number , and , although , for the most part , of very small dimensions , considerable alterations , or rather expedients , have been adopted in tho Gallery for tlieir reception . The
price paid for the collection is said to have been £ 9 , 200 . Eight of the pictures were exhibited to the public last week ; and since that period two long screens have been erected in tho Great AVest Room , placed parallel to each other and in the direction of north and south . Only cabinet pictures are placed upon them , but as the light falls directly from above they are seen to great disadvantage . The already far too narrow room is very inconveniently crowded , and it cannot but be hoped
that some speedy remedy is at hand . The names of some of the best engravers ivere lately submitted to the Queen for her decision as to who should be employed to engrave tho recently-executed portraits , by AVinterhalter , of herself and the Prince Consort . Her Majesty decided upon Messrs . Cousens and Bellin . At the request of an eminent lady , Air . E . G . Papworth took a cast from Airs . Jameson's face after death . This cast is to be used , wo
believe , in preparing a bust of the deceased . Air . Foley has completed his statue of Caractacus , ivhich will bo immediately placed at the Mansion House , London . This artist has also received the commission to execute a statue of Goldsmith , to be placed in Trinity College . Dublin ,
PHOFISSSOB OWBX . —A A'ery interesting and characteristic anecdote of our great naturalist , is given by Air . Leives in the Cornhill Magazine , in his chapter entitled ' - ' Studies in Animal Life" :- — " I ivas one day talking with Professor Owen in the Hunterian Museum , ivhen a gentleman approached ivith a request to be informed respecting the nature of a curious fossil , which had been dug up by one of his workmen . As he clroAv the fossil from a small bag , and was about to hand it for examination , Owen quietly remarked : ' Thafc is the third molar of the
underjaw of an extinct species of rhinoceros . ' The astonishment of tho gentleman at this precise and confident description of the fossil , before even it hacl quitted his hands , was doubtless very great . I know that mine was ; until the reflection occurred that if some one , little acquainted ivith editions , had draivn a A'olume from his pocket , declaring he had found it in an old chest , auy bibliophile would havo been able to say at a glance : ' That is an Elzevir ; ' or , ' That is one of tho Tauehnitz classics , stereotyped at Leipzig . ' Owen is as familiar with the aspect of the teeth of animals , living ancl extinct , as a student is ivith the aspect of editions . "