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Show PEN, PENCIL AND BRUSH. Ruskin's profits from the recent re-issue of his "Modern Painters" were $30,(XK). Vasili Verestchagin, the famous Russian painter, was bitteu in the leg recently by a mad dog. Thomas Nast, the caricaturist, says that his cartoons put an end to a long-continued and intimate friendship between himself and Carl Schurz. John Oliver Hobbes, a writer whose most recent book has caused something of a sensation sen-sation in the fashionable circles of London, is the pen name used by Mrs. Craige, who is well known in that city. Mrs. Harriet A. Ketcham, who made the successful design for the Iowa soldiers' monument, died soon after learniug of the acceptance of her plan. She was an Ohio girl, who had studied abroad, and manifested undoubted talent as a sculptoress. Bonnat, the famous Parisian painter of portraits, is a hard workina and painstaking artist. He is free from conceit or touchiness, touchi-ness, but is intensely proud, and will not cater for the taste of fashionable or influential influen-tial sitters wheu he thinks it bad. His prices are high, but he does not want to execute exe-cute many orders. . a . |