Sleepy Hollow_,
published by the Art Union, won him so much reputation in Europe as well
as here, is about to publish a series of outline illustrations of
_Margaret_, an American novel, said to be of great interest. We had some
time since the pleasure of seeing the drawings for these illustrations,
and will venture to say that in truthfulness of expression and accuracy
of outline they are beyond any American works of their kind, and
surpassed by none we know of which have appeared in Europe, we will not
even except those of RETZSCH.

The Art-Union Bulletin is our authority for stating that Mr. Darley has
also engaged to furnish, to a print publisher in this city, twelve
designs of large size, representing prominent scenes in American
history. They are to be sketches in chiaroscuro, which will afterward be
engraved in mezzotint. The first of these designs represents _The
Massacre of Wyoming_. The point of time chosen by the artist, is the
first demonstration made by the savages against the settlement, on the
day preceding the general slaughter. A letter to the _Tribune_ states
that Mr. Healy, one of our best portrait painters, is hard at work on
the figures of the former two great rivals, Mr. Webster and Mr. Calhoun.
That of Mr. Calhoun is simply a full-length portrait, representing him
as taking his leave of the Senate; it is for the Charleston authorities.
The accessories of the painting are unimportant. That of Mr. Webster,
however, gives us a large section of the Senate chamber, galleries
included, and about one hundred and fifty figures or portraits, all
after life. It is yet in outline. Boston will possess this valuable work
of art, and almost living history of the celebrated speech on the
Constitution.

GREAT BRITAIN.

Mr. J. PAYNE COLLIER, the annotator upon Shakspeare, has received a
pension of L100 a year from the Royal Literary Pension Fund. Another
pension, of the same amount, has been granted to Mr. JAMES BAILEY, the
translator of Facciolati's Latin Lexicon, and one of the most
accomplished scholars of the day. So, entirely, however, had Mr. Bailey
abstracted himself from the great literary world, that when the
announcement was made of the pension conferred upon him "in
consideration of his literary merits," not one of the literary journals,
not even the _Athenaeum_, was able to tell who the recipient was; but all
declared that they knew of no man of letters bearing that name. This
fund amounts to L120