ns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, has exhibited at
Berlin a collection of casts unique in their kind. These are 8,000 in
number; and comprise all the remarkable sculptures of the above places,
besides those found at Stabiae, and those of the vast collection of the
Museo Borbonico and other museums of the Two Sicilies. The casts from the
Museo Borbonico are the first ever made,--the King of Naples having
accorded the privilege of taking these copies to M. Zahn alone, in royal
recompense for the Professor's great work on Pompeii and Herculaneum.

A book which all students of art should possess, is DR. KUGLER'S
_Geschichte der Kunst_ (History of Art), with the Illustrations
(_Bilderatlos_) which accompany it, and which are now being published at
Stuttgart. The ancient and modern schools of Art--Painting, Sculpture, and
Architecture--are here represented in outlines of their most celebrated and
characteristic works. Eleven numbers of these Illustrations have appeared,
and the whole work will be completed in the course of the coming year.

In our musical world there have been several noticable facts in the last
month. The opera company, perhaps from the utter incapacity of its
director, has been divided, and the best portion of it has been singing at
Niblo's Theatre. Jenny Lind's farewell series of concerts was prevented by
intelligence of the death of the great singer's mother, in Sweden.
Catherine Hayes has been successful in several concerts at Tripler Hall,
and Mrs. Bostwick, whom the best critics of the city regard as superior to
any singer who has appeared among us, except Jenny Lind, has given a
second series of her subscription concerts, which were extremely well
attended.

A correspondent of the _Athenaeum_, writing from Egypt, urges that a few
young artists should be sent out with orders to copy all the hieroglyphics
on the most important temples, as well as the numerous tablets and
fragments which are daily brought to light. "A work pursued with such
materials--all theories and arbitrary classification being excluded--would
ever remain as a lasting monument, and would reflect great credit on the
Government which should order its execution." Less than one-half of the
money required for the removal of the Obelisk would amply cover all
expenses.

A correspondent of _Kuhne's Europa_ writes from Dresden that a number of
humorous drawings, sketched by the pencil of Schiller, and accompanie