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330 of the best works of our American painter, who became president of the Royal Academy in London. Fulton himself was an artist of considerable ability, and pursued his art studies in London under West's direction. Among his works is a most interesting portrait of himself, which can be seen in the Brooklyn Institute. Although this does not equal West's portrait in artistic merit, like other attempts of artists to portray their own features it gives us something not to be found in other portraits, namely, the idea, or perhaps we should rather say the ideal, the artist has formed of himself. One of the most interesting of the printed documents referring to the Revolution is an old "Broadside" printed in New York, March 25, 1783. We are here given a vivid idea of the time required for the transmission of news in that day, for this sheet tells us that the first news of the signing of the preliminaries to the treaty of peace at Paris