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Mr. Carl Muller, a talented German sculptor, residing, we_ believe, in New-York,exhibits the group in marble which commences this page. It is called the Minstrel’s

Curse, and represents the bard imprecating vengeance for the death of his son,

whose drooping form he supports with his left hand. We are not acquainted withthe legend which the statuary is designed to embody.

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A statue of St. John with the conventional symbols attributed to him by themonks, is exhibited by Eugenio Barratta, of Carrara.

The statue of Columbus, the “ world renowned Genoese,” is contributed to the Ex-hibition by Del Meoico Staffetti, of Carrara. We understand that it is copied froma model in plaster by Costa, a sculptor of Florence.

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The statue called Caritas is the -work of J. Ernst von Bandel. It was sent to theExhibition from England, but was executed in Hanover.