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England has long been famous for the beauty andperfection of the wood-carvings executed by her artists.The productions of Grinling Gibbons, who has been

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justly called the English Cellini, still adorn the halls ofChatsworth, and receive the admiration of every visitorat that princely seat. In our own times the carvings of

ever examines the contributions of Mr. Rogers at theNew-York Exhibition, will feel to be true what HoraceWalpole long ago said of Gibbons, that he “gaveto wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,and chained together the various productions of theelements with a free disorder, natural to each species.”We have engraved upon this page four examples; TwoPanels upon which bunches of flowers are carved, andanother Panel, bearing the instruments and trophies ofthe chase. The fourth is a grotesque Mask, about whichthree youthful fauns are wreathing garlands of fruits andflowers. It is intended, we presume, as an architecturaldecoration for a theatre.

of the United States. This, and the Collar figured uponthe adjoining page, are exhibited by the manufacturers,Messrs. John Higgins <fe Co., of New-York and Dublin.

The sewed muslin trade of Ireland has already be-come one of very great importance both in a commercial

The engraving which fills the remainder of this pagerepresents a corner of an embroidered Handkerchiefmanufactured for Mrs. Pierce, the wife of the President

and philanthropic point of view. Tt was introducedinto Ireland during the years of famine in 1846-7, as ameans of giving employment and food to the helpless

Gibbons have been reproduced in all their luxuriantand graceful beauty by W. G. Rogers, of London. Who

peasantry. In this generous undertaking the late LadyDeane, and the wife of Sir Lucius O’Brien, were noblyconspicuous. The former organized a parish school of

embroidery, and taught and superintended it herself.Lady O’Brien sent an agent to France and procurededucated superintendents, under whose care the peasant

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