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A COLLECTION of pictures to be sold at auction next week contains several interesting copies of old masters, and one or two paintings which are said to be originals by Paul Veronese.
THE library that Mr. Sumner has bequeathed to Harvard has just been received. The number of volumes is nearly 3,000, and the value of some of them is very great. That Mr. Sumner had the true love of a bibliophile for beautiful bindings, rare editions, and exquisite texts, is...
WE had the pleasure of listening to Mr. Norton's lecture yesterday, at the Parker Fraternity Rooms, on the "Life of Turner," It was a thoroughly interesting lecture, though, from its subject, it could not be other than very sad. The collection is finely arranged on the walls, and contains...
A FRIEND of the Gray collection has recently purchased the engraving stand in the Library, given it to the Scientific School, and presented us with a new one. The new stand will hold thirty leaves, each leaf half as large again as the old ones. It will thus be able...
Some may have heard rumors of the exhibition of Turners, to be given in Boston during the last two weeks of April. We understand that the preparations are nearly completed, and in our next number we shall hope to give full particulars as to the place of the collection, its...