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Show ART AND ARTISTS. A poiiTHAtTof the well known Uni- terian divine. Dr. P.nrto, of Boston, painted I'.V his dauliter, has been pre-sen pre-sen ted U the American L' nitariun assoc-! assoc-! intion. I Doha V.'iiEF.i.F.n, the ;irlist. has grown ! rounded and matronly. Alway;; u tall ) -.vonum with a wonderfully line ear-! ear-! ri if e and ehussie features her figure now is that, of a youn .hmo. Sct'i.l'Tott Ei.wici.r., of New York, has been awarded the eontraet for the monument, mon-ument, to lien. Hancock to be erected i by the llettysbur Monument associa- tioii. The eost will be -J,0l)0 without tlie pedestal. W'ai.tkk Satteui-ek, the artist, says one of the retitest ditiieullies he meets with is the luck of models, in this eoun-trv. eoun-trv. whose hair is so black that it has blue or purple lights in it. I!e adds that what he wants is common in liu-ropt. liu-ropt. but almost unnttainable here. A most beautiful and almost unknown portrait of the unfortunate Queen .Ma-vie .Ma-vie Antoinette is at present on view at Diiseklorf. The portrait, which is three-nuartCTS life-size, by Halms, represent:; rep-resent:; the queen standing holding- a little King Charles spaniel in her arms. j FAMOUS LITERATI. ! Tt is well known that Renan studied j for the priesthood and that the alfera-) alfera-) lion of his opinions was the result of his perusal o! Heei's writings. Emron .Ioiin Brishix Walker, of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, is out in a card ; denying that he made t'-J.'il'UlOO in a real , estate deal. He says he has only made ?!,J00,11(). Drt. Oi.ivkk W'KXPKi.r. Holmes not only hasn't a copy of his first poem, but he doesn't know what t he title of it was. This he confessed the other day to a lady who sought him fur information informa-tion on this point. Thk journalistic and literary world of Germany has suffered a great loss in the death of Otto Baisch. for many years past editor-in-chief of the famous weekly journal Cuber L,and uml Meer. Ilerr Baisch was sick only a short time. Miss Kate Field, though a busy business woman, does not like to work at a desk. Much of her writing she does on a tablet in an easy chair. It is saitl that she even "curls up" while thus engaged, and that she acquired this habit unconsciously from Elizabeth ! Barrett Browning. |