Show AT NOTES II Meissonier is the first painter ever raised to the dignity of Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor The time of the bond of the painting Crucifixion by Mrmkacsy has expired ex-pired and a duty of 19000 paid There arc on exhibition in a Paris gallery gal-lery seven cartoons alleged to be by Raphael and from which It is said the tapestries in the Vatican were executed The preparations for the Tudor collection collec-tion in London are proceeding rapidly and among the portraits of the celebrities of tho family will be found a large number num-ber of the most important works of Hol bein beinThree Three American artists long domiciled abroadMr Sargeant Mr Abbey and Mr Millctrwith their English frie dIr d-Ir Parsons an artist not Jess admirable In his way than the others will spend the coming winter in America The population of France is decreasing decreas-ing and it is feared that there wifl bean be-an fnsufficicnt supply of subjects f or statues Attention is therefore given to r historical balloons and a monument has just been put up on the spot where Gambettas balloon descended when he escaped from Paris in 1870 Dupre like Millet felt the inspiration of nature but while Millet represent human nature emanating from the earth to which it returns Dupre sees the splendors splen-dors of the creation tie rejoicing bril iant euusbino tho moving cloud the stirring nervous leases the Folemn trees the merry books the yelloW cornfields corn-fields the green meadows tIle black and bursting storm cloud and the terrible darkness of the forest |