ic on the Monday
following. The number of works in painting and sculpture amounts to 548,
and, as a whole, the Exhibition is considered as scarcely up to the
average.

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Of French Taste we have a new illustration in the fact that M. de
Triqueti, the sculptor, has completed a statue of Our Saviour, six and a
half feet high, for one of the decorations of the tomb of Napoleon
Bonaparte.

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The late railway works, undertaken near Prague, in Bohemia, have brought
to light a great number of objects which may constitute a new species of
European art, we mean that if the Czecho-Slaves before the introduction
of Christianity. Some of the ancient sculptures found relate to the
Slavian goddess Ziwa, most undoubtedly analogous to the Indian Siwa.

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Mr. S. S. OSGOOD has recently completed several very admirable
portraits, one of which is of himself, and painted with remarkable
ability. Another is of Mary E. Hewitt, one of our most respected
literary women, whose fine face is reflected with equal fidelity and
felicity from Mr. Osgood's canvas.

_Record of Scientific Discovery._

PHOTOGRAPHY.--Two alleged improvements in Photography have laid claim to
public attention: one the product of France, the other of the United
States. The French discovery was recently communicated to the Academy of
Sciences in Paris, by M. Blanquart-Evrard, and consists in a mode of
whitening the sides of the camera, and also the interior of the tube, to
which opticians have hitherto been accustomed to give a coating of
black. By the new improvement, it is claimed, a saving of one-half is
effected in the time required to produce a picture, beside the
additional advantages of increased uniformity of action, and less
necessity for a powerful light, together with less resistance from red,
yellow and green rays. The plan has been experimented upon with success
both in France and England. The second and latest invention is the
Hillotype; so-called, in the absence of a better name, from Mr. L. L.
Hill, of Greene Co., N. Y., who claims the discovery of a process,
whereby photographic impressions can be produced with the complete
colors of nature. It is stated that a number of successful experiments
have established the practicability of the new plan, and that
landscapes, sunset-scenes, portraits, &c., have been produced with
mar