copiously illustrated with explanatory engravings, and is well
printed on good thick paper, as a manual should be. Nothing is wanting,
but the extensive circulation which it deserves, to make it useful to
equestrians, and beneficial to that much abused animal to which it is
devoted.

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The _Heroes and Martyrs of the Modern Missionary Enterprise, with some
Sketches of the Earlier Missionaries_, edited by L. E. SMITH, with an
introduction by Rev. Dr. SPRAGUE, will soon be published by P. Brockett
& Co., of Hartford. It will be an octavo of about six hundred pages,
with portraits.

The Fine Arts.

KAULBACH's picture of the Destruction of Jerusalem is at last finished,
in fresco, upon the walls of the New Museum in Berlin. It is worth a
journey thither to see it. Nor is it alone. The other parts of the
series of pictures which adorn the great stairway of that edifice, are
rapidly advancing to completion. The five broad pilasters, which
separate the main pictures, are nearly done, many of the chief figures
being finished in color, while others are drawn in their places. They
will exhaust the history of the early religious and intellectual
development of humanity. The Egyptian, Indian, Persian, Greek, Hebrew,
and Roman religions, are all illustrated with that masterly genius,
comprehensiveness and fertility of imagination, for which Kaulbach is
without a peer among the artists of the age. Each religion is depicted
in the persons of its divinities and early teachers and heroes.
Thoroughly to understand the whole scope of these pictures, requires as
much learning in the theology and mythology of these antique races as
the artist has employed in painting them, not to speak of skill in
deciphering allegories; but to be impressed with their wonderful
richness, grandeur, and beauty, requires no learning, beyond a true eye
and a mind capable of feeling. Besides, these mythological pictures, the
symbolical men of history are introduced, such as Moses and Solon. The
Grecian mythological part is not yet completed, the artist having
reserved that to be done next summer; in it he intends to lay himself
out as on a favorite and congenial subject.

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The works of INGRES, the eminent French painter, have been published in
splendid style by the great house of Didot at Paris.

Noctes Amicae.

There are being born into this great city a va