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cabinet-work, is from the establishment of T.Brooks, Brooklyn, N. Y. The demand for richly

carved furniture in the renaissance style whichbegan a few years ago, keeps pace with the in-

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We again recur to the productions of Mr. Copeland. The Parian sta-tuettes, placed on either side, are modelled after the designs of Cumber-worth, and represent the inseparable Paul and Virginia, with the storyof whose romantic love and friendship every child has been made familiarby the charming tale of Bernardin de St. Pierre. The Lily Flower Vaseis composed of the leaves, and decorated with the delicate drooping bellsof the lily of the valley, the loveliest of the flowers that bear that lovely

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name. Upon the opposite side is a Gothic Vase, thirteen inches in height,whose sides are pierced to show its glass or enamelled lining.

The engraving which occupies the centre of the page, represents thebust of Proserpine, by Powers.. The head is ideal, and we may receive itas embodying our great sculptor’s conception of female beauty in repose.The wreath of leaves and flowers which encircle it, allude, perhaps, re-motely to the legend, familiar in the poets, of the field

Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers,

Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Bis"Was gathered.

The learned Germans who regard the whole Grecian mythology as person-crease of wealth and the prevalence of orna- ifying natural phenomena, interpret the legend as follows: Proserpine, whomental architecture. is carried off to the lower world,, is the seed corn that for a time is buried |

in the ground; Proserpine, who returns to her

mother, is the corn which rises again to support

mankind. The Proserpine is exhibited by SidneyBrooks, Esq., of liew-York.

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The rosewood horizontal grand Pianoforte, engravedon this page, is from the well-known manufactory of

"William Stodart & Son, of Golden Square, London. Themechanism of Messrs. Stodart’s pianos is remarkable for

its simplicity, efficiency, and durability, and these sterlingqualities are united with exterior beauty.