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FRANKLIN AT THE COURT OF LOUIS XVI."

Mr. HEALY, the distinguished American artist, has just completed, at Paris, a work upon which he has been engaged during many months past, and which will be sure to add to the high reputation he has previously enjoyed. The subject of this painting is the PRESENTATION OF FRANKLIN AT THE COURT OF LOUIS XVI.

The working-classes of America, with the constant increase of educational facilities, will soon be known as the "privileged classes." Another grand means of instruction and profitable amusement is now offered to organized bodies of men who gain their livelihood by the sweat of their HEALY's picture of k brow. Mr. William Maclure, a Scotchman and a bachelor, having no heirs in this country excepting a brother and two sisters, who have all "There is another indication of the scientific died since his decease, in his last will and testaand literary activity which is manifested in the ment devised a very considerable estate, consistUnited States, and that is, the great number of ing of property, real and personal, some of which public libraries which have there been formed, is located in New Harmony, Posey county, Indand the extent of the riches which they already iana, "to be appropriated expressly for the purpossess. There are in New York twenty libra-pose of the diffusion of useful knowledge and Before the seated monarch, stands, in all the ries, either wholly public or founded by different instruction amongst the Institutions, Libraries, dignity of his noble figure, the representative of institutions or associations, and owning 295,500 Clubs, or meetings for useful instruction of the America, whose plain citizen's dress, and long volumes; at Philadelphia, twenty-four public working-classes or manual laborers in the United flowing locks, are in remarkable contrast with libraries, with 238,500 volumes; and at Boston, States of America." According to this will, all the gay apparel and the powdered wigs of all nineteen public libraries, with 150, 200 volumes. the property, after the death of his brother and the persons of the court. Near Franklin, Gen. Many other cities present analogous facts :- sisters, was to revert to the above-named use; Lee, of Virginia, and Silas Dean, of Connecticut, yet none of these institutions are created or but his brother conveyed some of the property, who accompanied him to Paris, are represented. supported at the expense of the public treasury; and this occasioned a prolonged suit, which has At the side of Louis XVI are the Duke of they are private foundations, inspired either by just been decided by the Supreme Court of Ind- Richelieu and his son, and several other couran enlightened patriotism or by a generous self-iana, confirming the decision of previous courts, tiers. Franklin is in the act of presenting an love." and dispossessing the present owners of a large address to the king, whose hand is extended to receive him.

From these and similar general remarks, Mand valuable property. This real estate is worth

The subject is one of national interest, and from what we learn of its execution, the painting is well deserving of national purchase. It has been privately exhibited in Paris, and is to be placed in the Palace of the Fine Arts during the continuance of the Great Exhibition.

Notes and Reviews.

human nature. Special power may require, in-
deed, special training, but there must be strength
in the mass before it can be concentrated in de-
tail. It is not a concentration of weakness that
is desirable, but of power. Philosophically con-
sidered, we come to the same result, since in this
marvellously proportioned humanity there is no
part which is not intimately related to, or which
does not absorb, the whole. Actively or poten-
tially, the microcosm is every where.

"Man is in little all the sphere."

as Mr. Bancroft announces it, evidently plays an important part in his studies, the historical criteria of his great work. In many cases its application solves, as by magic, the most knotty historical problems. It brings us in contact with combined fate and free agency in their most impressive forms.

His paper on this subject was published in 1824, and made its decided impression at the time. Any one who once saw it in the review in which it appeared-we believe "Walsh's Philadelphia Quarterly"-will recognise it again. When we find, therefore, Mr. Bancroft return- It is a thing of mark-not that it is new or confrom the wide fields of ancient historical tains any important discovery, but for its grasp investigation and modern European culture to of an old subject-the freshness and animation paint minutely the characters of American Gen- which give to it an air of novelty. The propoerals who left the plow for the sword, or drain-sitions, without claiming the accuracy of medical ing from obscurity the hitherto unnamed men science, are generally distinct and clearly anwho have subdued forests and founded towns in nounced; the illustrations are, for the most part, the wilderness, we find him still legitimately em- convincing, and are frequently brought forward ployed in the same great work of liberal study. with striking picturesque effect. The sketches The knowledge of the past has taught him the of Potemkin, the favorite of Catharine of Russia, value of the present, which he reads with a in illustration of the athletic temperament, and greater certainty, a profounder sense of moral of Sextus V., as an example of the patient, enbeauty, a new grandeur, with a sublimer faith. during, triumphing, bilious constitution, among That study is worth but little which abstracts a others, are in the writer's best condensed style. man from common affairs, if it does not return This is the pointed manner in which the Pope's him to daily life with new insight, new love, new story is told:

LITERARY AND HISTORICAL MISCELLANIE By
GEORGE BANCROFT. (Harper & Bros., N. Y.)
It is a pleasant inner view which the greating
historian of America gives us of his thoughts
and studies in the several sketches of this in-
teresting volume. It introduces us, as it were,
behind the scenes, and shows us, part by part,
the sections of the vast and connected machinery
which is put in action in one magnificent whole
on the large stage of historical narration. It
gives us the opportunity of a private interview
with Bancroft in his study. We have a distinct
view of his method and philosophy, and may
learn by what arts he has built up the costly
temple in which his fame is now permanently
enshrined.

By close investigation of the economy of Athens, Bancroft has learned a juster valuation of the taxation of New York. In the efforts of Gracchus to resist the fall of Rome he can read more clearly the rise of America. From the contemplation of Russia he can better survey the vast spaces of his own land.

It is quite noticeable that, of the contents of this volume, which is taken, with the exception | faculties. of a few subsequent occasional addresses, from the author's productions from 1818 to 1829, there is not one discussion of a purely American subject. The author had, apparently, not then plucked a leaf of his native laurel or cast a single glance at the tree. We have physiological and philosophical essays on the doctrine of temperaments, on ennui, the ruling passion in death; critical studies of German literature and poetical translations from German poets; an-ican historian accomplishes himself for his work. tique studies of the polity of Greece and Rome, and, nearest approach to the American continent, speculations on the character and growth of gigantic Russia.

"But were we to select an example among those, who at any time have been masters of the Seven Hills, we should life he exerted astonishing industry and talent, made himname the wonderful Montalto, Pope Sextus V. In early self the favorite preacher in the cities of Italy, and afterwards won the hearts of the Spaniards, till he was at last made Cardinal. Then, of a sudden, his character seemed changed; and for almost twenty years he played the part of

a deceiver, with unequalled skill. He lived at a retired house, kept few servants, was liberal in his expenses for

meek, the most humble, and the most easily guided among

Nor is it only by the study of great external charities, but parsimonious towards himself, contradicted no events, the acts of foreign States, that the Amer-one, submitted even to insults with perfect good humor, and, in short, acquired the reputation of being the most the cardinals. Of the forty-two cardinals who entered the conclave, Montalto seemed nearest to another world. A crutch supported the declining strength of his old age, and a distressing congh indicated that life was fast consuming away. Six parties divided the assembly; and fourteen car

pew, know his friendships and his enmities
then he may read him truly in events.

Albano, the most powerfully supported, bad but thirteen votes. Let us take this good natured, dying old man, thought they, he will be easily managed; and four parties of the six Pope of Rome," exclaimed the hale old man. Casting from united for Montalto. The ballot was ended; "Gods! I am him the cloaks in which he was muffled, he threw his crutch across the room, and bending back, spit to the ceiling of the high chambers of the Vatican, in which he was, to show the vigor of his lungs. Never did a wiser man hold the keys of inexorable severity; he established the library of the Vati

St. Peter. He punished vice, even in the high places, with

There is another world yet to be studied. The individual man must be traveled over, and the various provinces of his will and affections be investigated in his relations of soul and sense. The lesson to be derived from this is obvious. This is the great key to historic portraiture-dinals deemed themselves worthy of the tiara. On balloting, It is one entirely at war with the Know-Nothing- the knowledge of the actor in his capacities and ism of the times. We may here see conclusively limits-so that he may move along the page, the policy and advantages of a profound general even while he is acted upon by events, with a cosmopolitan culture-when we find one of the self-impelling power of his own. This knowledge most national of our authors, the most minute, and grasp of character can alone give life to the pains-taking, laborious, loving advocate of Amer- narrative. The historian must weigh his man, ican life and character, strengthening his facul-measure him, eat with him, drink with him, see ties and acquiring his literary powers in the cul-him in his family, in his study, his business, his tivation of foreign letters. Like the flight of the falcon, the mind may sometimes take a wide can; placed the magnificent obelisk in front of St. Peters; sweep before alighting on its peculiar prey, and The dull bungling narrator is forever confused caused the matchless cupola to be built; conducted water to the momentum of the attack may be propor- by the perplexities of apparently contradictory the Quirinal Hill; erected a vast hospital for the poor; tioned to the extent of the circuit. The benefit facts; he sees only the outside of the disconformed the finances of the state of the Church; and, while of a general culture in preparation for particular nected parts, and his work is, in consequence, he exercised great influence on the affairs of Christendom, concentration in any of the higher walks of an unexplained painful medley. Let him com- he himself kept at peace. Since his time, the Catholic effort is a truth supported by so many analogies bine properly the men with the incidents, and Church has not had at its head a man of superior genius," that it is a marvel it should be so frequently the scene becomes clear and orderly. In that Again in the chapter on Ennui, which is demisconceived. We constantly hear, for instance, seeming imbroglio, the French Revolution, an fined "the desire of activity without the fit of attacks upon the study of Greek and Latin interminable drama, the performance of which means of gratifying the desire," we have a new literature in our colleges, with the question cui is not yet concluded, how little of it can be un-chrystalline fracture, so to speak, of this polygbono, and there is a decided disposition to divide derstood without a personal knowledge of the and separate the full University course into par- actors-from Mirabeau and Lafayette to Lamarcel studies with the design of a profitable utili- tine and Louis Napoleon. It seems almost tarian improvement of time and faculties. All wholly an affair of temperaments. This matter this is based upon a very slight knowledge of of physiology, "the doctrine of temperaments,"

made the splendid street called, from his name, Felice; re

onal human nature, developing, very happily, some of its more secret proportions. It is a very ingenious and thoughtful essay.

The

papers on German literature are admirable deductions; the pure, clarified result of long