s of Mandel beginning to ascend the sky, and our own
engravers appearing on the horizon. There is also a new and kindred
art, infinite in value, where the sun himself becomes artist, with
works which mark an epoch.

CHARLES SUMNER.

WASHINGTON, 11TH DEC., 1871.

[Illustration]

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: Discourses before the Royal Academy, No. IV.]

[Footnote 2: De Groote Schonburgh der Nederlantsche
Konctschilders en Schilderessen.]

[Footnote 3: This rare volume is in the Congressional
Library, among the books which belonged originally to Hon.
George P. Marsh, our excellent and most scholarly minister in
Italy. I asked for it in vain at the Paris Cabinet of
Engravings, and also at the Imperial Library. Never
translated into French or English; there is a German
translation of it by Carl Barth.]

[Footnote 4: Les Hommes Illustres, par Perrault, Tome ii., p.
97. The excellent copy of this work in the Congressional
Library belonged to Mr. Marsh. The prints are early
impressions.]

[Footnote 5: Panegyrique Funebre de Messire Pompone de
Bellievre, Premier President au Parlement, pronounce a
l'Hostel-Dieu de Paris, le 17 Avril, 1657, par un Chanoine
regulier de la Congregation de France. The dedication shows
this to have been the work of F. Lallemant of St. Genevieve.]

[Footnote 6: _La Calcografia_, p. 176.]

[Footnote 7: _La Calcografia_, pp. 165, 418.]

[Footnote 8: Les Arts au Moyen Age et a l'Epoque de la
Renaissance, par Paul Lacroix, p. 198.]

[Footnote 9: Longhi, _La Calcografia_, p. 199.]

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