excited, will induce measures for another course of the same kind next
year.

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A suggestion for extending the Triennial Exhibition of the works of
Belgian artists, which opens at Brussels in August of the present year,
to the painters and sculptors of all nations, has been discussed in that
city.

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A colossal statue of Wallace has recently been finished by a Mr. Patrick
Park, at Edinburgh. It was publicly uncovered in the presence of a large
party, composed in part of a regiment of Highlanders.

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Noticing Brady, Lester, and Davignon's _Gallery of Illustrious
Americans_, the London _Spectator_ observes:

"In no people do the chief men appear as more thoroughly
incarnate of the national traits; each outwardly a several
Americanism. Here we have the massive potency of Daniel
Webster,--on whose ponderous brow and fixed abashing eyes is
set the despotism of intellect; Silas Wright,--a well-grown and
cultivated specimen of the ordinary statesman; Henry Clay and
Col. Fremont,--two halves of the perfected go-ahead spirit; the
first shrewd, not to be evaded, knowing; the second impassable
to obstacles and alive only to the thing to be done. The heads
are finely and studiously lithographed from daguerreotypes by
Brady, and suffice to show how utterly fallacious is the notion
that _character_ is lost in this process."

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A portrait of the author of _Don Quixotte_, after a painting by
Velasquez, has been discovered in Paris, and has created some sensation,
as none of the portraits of the great Spanish poet hitherto existing
were considered very authentic. The renown of Cervantes being not fairly
established till after his death, little pains were taken to preserve
his features during lifetime. His portrait had been painted by Pacheco;
but there existed but a poor copy of this, and it was from this copy
that all engravings have been taken. The hope, therefore, of possessing
a portrait of the poet by such a man as Velasquez, is cheering; and
there are some facts which go far enough to prove the thorough
authenticity of that now discovered.

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The Exhibition of the British Institution was opened to private view, in
London, on the 8th of February, and to the publ