Sir F. Coates. One of the finest specimens of Crayon painting we have ever seen.

No. 105. Landscape. Lent by Count Survilliers. S. Rosa. We think this a true Salvator. At all events, it is a fine picture, but injured.

No. 119 is a copy from Hogarth by Leslie, who now paints originals much better than Hogarth ever did.

No. 120. Musidora. Designed and engraved by A. B. Durand. Mr. Durand is known to the public as the best engraver in America, and this print shows that his talent is not confined to the needle or burin. Here is beautiful composition, and fine drawing; in fact, Mr. Durand, as a man and an artist, is an ornament and honour to his country.

No. 125. Portrait of a gentleman. Presented to this academy by the artist, on his being elected an honorary member. Sir Henry Haeburn. This is one of the finest specimens of portrait painting which we have ever seen. It is a model for our students, and an invaluable present to our academy.

We close our review by noticing a groupe in bronze, numbered 136 in the catalogue, and called the Centaur. This groupe, evidently not antique, forms a pyramid whose base is of figures emblematical of the arts, whose centre is a female Centaur, and whose apex is a figure of Truth. At first view, the artist's intention is not perceived; and if the visiter of the academy consults his catalogue, we think he will be more than ever in the dark after reading the explanation. We will try to enlighten him.

The key to the composition is the Centaur, the emblem of science or philosophy. Literature and the Arts, the base of the pyramidal groupe, support Science, who, with one hand, upholds and exalts Truth, a female, with a sceptre in one hand, and part of a mirror in the other. The Centaur, or Philosophy, with the other hand, plunges a dagger into the bosom of a squalid female figure, who is, undoubtedly, meant to represent Error. There are other subordinate parts of the composition which are ingenious, but partake of conceit and affectation.

We here take leave of the present exhibition, which is creditable to the academy, and proves, to demonstration, the increasing taste for the arts, and the rapid improvement of our artists. We hope the public will reward the artist, at whose expense and risk it is now supported.

In our former number, we noticed the association of artists for improvement. We are informed, that the directors of the academy have pledged themselves to use their influence with

the stockholders, to place six artists of the association in the directory: meaning to unite the interest of the artists with that of the stockholders-making of the establishment a réal school of art, as well as a gallery for the display of it. This plan will be supported by every enlightened and public spirited citizen.

THE INDIAN GIRL'S LAMENT.

AN Indian girl was sitting where
Her lover, slain in battle, slept;
Her maiden veil, her own black hair,*
Came down o'er eyes that wept;
And wildly, in her woodland tongue,
This sad and simple lay she sung:

I've pulled away the shrubs that grew
Too close above thy sleeping head,
And broke the forest boughs that threw
Their shadows o'er thy bed,

That shining from the sweet south-west
The sun-beams might rejoice thy rest.

It was a weary, weary road,

That led thee to the pleasant coast,
Where thou, in his serene abode,
Hast met thy father's ghost;
Where everlasting autumn lies
On yellow woods and sunny skies.

'Twas I the broidered mock'sen made,
That shod thee for that distant land;
'Twas I thy bow and arrows laid
Beside thy still cold hand;
Thy bow in many a battle bent,
Thy arrows never vainly sent.

With wampum belts I crossed thy breast,
And wrapped thee in the bison's hide,
And laid the food that pleased thee best,
In plenty, by thy side,

And decked thee bravely, as became
A warrior of illustrious name.

* "The unmarried women have a modest falling down of the hair

over the eyes."

ELIOT.

Thou'rt happy now, for thou art past
The long dark journey of the grave,
And in the land of light, at last,
Hast joined the good and brave;
Amid the flushed and balmy air,
The bravest and the loveliest there.

Yet, to thy own dear Indian maid

Thy thoughts will sometimes earthward stray, To her who sits where thou wert laid,

And weeps the hours away;

Yet almost can her grief forget,

To think that thou dost love her yet.

And thou, by one of those still lakes
That in a shining cluster lie,

On which the south wind scarcely breaks
The image of the sky,

A bower for thee and me hast made
Beneath the many-coloured shade.

And thou dost wait and watch to meet
My spirit sent to join the blest,
And, wondering what detains my feet
From the bright land of rest,
Dost seem, in every sound, to hear
The rustling of my footsteps near.

B.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.

RUINS OF POMPEII.-The excavations at Pompeii are going on with great success. Only about fifty workmen are employed, but their labours have been so well directed, that not only many buildings, but even entire streets, have been uncovered. Among these new discoveries is that of a magnificent temple, which appears to have been a kind of Pantheon. On the walls of the chambers are pictures on different subjects in good preservation, and in two of the niches of the building are two statues, pronounced by the antiquaries to be those of Nero and Messalina.

IMITATION OF GOLD.-Dr. Hermstadt, of Hanover, has invented a composition which resembles gold, not only in colour, but in specific gravity, in density and ductility. The following

is the receipt for making it: Take sixteen ounces of virgin platina, seven of copper, and one of zinc, all of equal purity, put them in a crucible, cover them with powdered charcoal, and subject them to a fire until melted into one mass.

FESTIVAL IN HONOUR OF SCHILLER.--The anniversary of Schiller's death has been celebrated at Stuttgart, in Germany, with great ceremony, and an immense concourse of people. The bust of Schiller was brought out and placed in a public garden, in the midst of the assembly, and hymns and odes were sung. The magistrates of Marbach, the native town of the poet, attended on this occasion in their official capacity, and among the multitude assembled to do honour to his memory were several friends of his early youth. A subscription was set on foot for the erection of a monument, and filled immediately.

LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD.-According to the enumeration of Professor Adelung, there are in the world 3064 different languages, of which 587 are spoken in Europe, 937 in Asia, 276 in Africa, and 1264 in America. The Professor probably includes in this enumeration many provincial corruptions of the same general languages.

SWEDISH PRISONS.-Commissioners have been appointed by the king of Sweden, to inquire into the arrangement and discipline of the prisons in the kingdom, and to suggest plans for their improvement. They have proposed to divide the prisons into classes, and have recommended to his majesty the erection of a state penitentiary.

SCHOOLS IN GREECE.-At Argos is established a general school of mutual instruction, to which young men are sent from all the Greek provinces, for the purpose of learning the method, and diffusing its benefits among all their countrymen. It has now about two hundred scholars-some of these are young ladies, who receive their lessons separately. At Athens are two

central schools of mutual instruction, and two grammar schools, of which one has received the name of Lyceum. In this latter are taught, 1st. The ancient Greek language compared with the modern. 2d. The Italian language. 3d. The elements of geography, of arithmetic, of geometry, of logic and metaphysics. In the island of Tino is a central school of mutual instruction, and a lyceum. In the island of Andros are three schools of mutual instruction, and two grammar schools. Syphaos has also a grammar school, into which it is intended to in

troduce the system of mutual instruction as soon as a master can be procured. In Patmos there existed before the late revolution a flourishing school, in which were taught with great success the ancient Greek tongue, the philosophy of Aristotle, rhetoric and poetry. This school still exists, though in less reputation than formerly, on account of circumstances connected with the late troubles. In the same island is a library particularly rich in manuscripts, and a school of mutual instruction. In the Cyclades and the Sporades are from one to three schools in each island, according to its extent. In these are taught ancient Greek and the elements of philosophy, and in some the French and Italian languages. Tripolitza, St. John, (Astros) and St. Petros, a village near Astros, and Missolunghi, have each a school of mutual instruction and a grammar school. The grammar school at St. John has a good library and philosophical instruments. In the province of Karitene are four grammar schools. Many of these schools are kept in the Turkish mosques, and some, for want of convenient buildings, under the shade of trees. The interests of instruction, however, suffer very much from the scarcity of spelling books; slates and writing materials are so expensive and difficult to obtain, that in most private schools in the small villages, the scholars are only taught to read.

IMPROVISATION.-Paris has at length produced a rival of Querno and Corinna. Mons. Pradel continues to astonish the inhabitants of that city by the facility with which he produces extempore poems on any given subject. On one occasion Christopher Columbus in chains, was prescribed to him as the subject of his verses, and the following lines are given as a part of his poem :

Miserable jouet de la faveur des grands,

Je gemis je languis dans une nuit profonde
Je meurs, helas! victime des tyrans,

Et je viens d'agrandir le monde.

At another time he concluded a poem on Spartiates, the only survivor of the three hundred who fought with Leonidas, with this quatrain:

Quel climat, quel pays m'offriront leurs asyles?

Victime du plus triste sort,

Quand je dirai j'etais aux Thermopyles

Chacun me repondra: Pourquoi n'es tu pas mort?

On the 28th of August M. Pradel delivered an improvisation for the benefit of the sufferers at the late fire at Salins. The audience were consulted respecting the subject of his