vely touches, the mission of the man whose
hospital is the battle-field, of his intrepid coolness and humane
devotion. Larrey was wounded, while binding the wounds of others, in
Egypt and at Waterloo, in the days of glory and of disaster. The
President of the Assembly spoke with much feeling, and when he came down
from his chair a general rush was made by his friends to embrace him.

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THE STANDISH GALLERY OF PICTURES in the Louvre was decreed by the French
courts, a few days before his death, to be the private property of the
late Louis Philippe. It was left to the king by Mr. Frank Hall Standish,
in 1838. The library of this collection is very valuable. It contains
among other rare books the Bible of Cardinal Ximenes, valued alone at
$5000. One of the last acts of Louis Philippe was to present it to the
French people. He was desirous only of vindicating his rights in the
courts. The gallery therefore will not be removed.

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THE ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF PICTURES by Duesseldorf artists was opened in
that city about the middle of July. Landscapes are rather predominant. In
their line the works of Alexander Michelis, August Kossler, Weba and
Fischer are the best. Ten pictures of peasant life in Norway by Adolf
Tidemond, a Norwegian artist, are said to display very remarkable merit.
They were retained in the exhibition only a few days, being destined for
the royal chateau of Oskarshall. Of historical pictures there is nothing
worth mentioning.

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The _Brussells Herald_ states that the artistic value of the works of art
contained in the churches of Antwerp, eleven in number, is by the late
financial report of the province estimated at 49,763,000 francs-nearly
ten millions of dollars.

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LEUTZE'S PICTURE of Washington Crossing the Delaware is nearly finished
at Duesseldorf, and is much praised by several letter-writers who have
seen it.

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MR. POWELL, at Paris, expects to finish his picture for the Capitol about
the first of February.

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EDGAR ALLEN POE.

By R.W. GRISWOLD.

The family of EDGAR A. POE was one of the oldest and most
reputable in Baltimore. David Poe, his paternal grandfather, was a
Quartermaster-General in the Maryland line during the Revolution, and the