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��20 inches long, of his first American steamboat, the "Clement." The model is turned sidewise on the left out- thrown knee, raised by resting the side edge of the foot on a block, so as to show the whole sole, while the right limb is drawn back under the chair.

The fine head, with abundance of short curls, is bent low over the model, with a gaze intense, perplexed and dreamy. The face is broad at the temples, with a deep furrow on the fore- head, and depressions over the brows that make the eyelids seem heavy ; fine Roman nose, and lips compressed by the brown study. The portrait was painted by Benjamin West, who was born in an adjoining county, an inti- mate friend, in whose family Fulton spent the two years of his artist life in London. Some figured material — brocade or Marseilles — is the deep- collared, lapeled, double-breasted waist- coat, with two rows of buttons, four of them closed below the full bosom-frills and close necktie. Breeches, with four buttons at the outer side of the knees, close-gartered, ribbed hose, and long-buckled, high-heeled, square-toed shoes, complete the costume. A cou- ple of thick worn volumes are pushed under the chair, on the right arm of which are mallet and vise, and on the

��floor, partly under two loose unrolled scrolls, lie chisel and compass.

The pedestal, a superb block of cream and chocolate marble, bears on the face the name Robert Fulton. The artist, Howard Roberts, of Phila- delphia, has bedded his name in the notch work (if that be the term) on the base of the white marble.

The position in the hall is on the left side of the south door, lately occu- pied by the Ethan Allen, which was pushed eastward for the convenience of the Garfield Memorial Fair, when most of the statues were crowded to the walls under the gallery, and the Hamilton moved to the west side, be- tween the Winthrop and the Lincoln — changes which greatly mar the effect of the hall for the present. While we write, May, the enlargement of the house library, over the corridor to the south, has necessitated the use of hoods or wooden coverings over the statues, on that side, to prevent injury during the progress of the work pro- posed.

And New Hampshire is now the only New England state without represen- tation in that historic hall ! How long will she decline the honor accorded to her ? May the present legislature take wise action.

��James R. Osgood & Co. have favored us with a copy of ^Fanchette." one of the " Round Robin Series." a charming little novel, by the way; and "' The Real Lord Byron.'* which they have just published, by arrangement with the author. Mr. J. C. Jeaftreson. contains some of the most sensational and excit- ing chapters in modern literary history, and will arouse a storm of discussion on both sides of the Atlantic. With a straightforward and unwavering fairness, devoid of all attempts to exculpate or incriminate the poet, this skillful biogra- pher unfolds the record of his actual life, its good deeds and bad. and leaves the reader to form his own verdict. The adventurous and martial career of Lord Byron, in Italy aud Greece, is described at length, and* his extraordinary habits

��of life, while dwelling at Venice, Genoa, Pisa, and Ravenna, his deeds in the Greek War of Independence, and his death at Missolonghi. The heat of the contest comes in the chapters devoted to refuting the very grave charges advanc- ed in an American book, which are re- viewed at length, and effectually dis- posed of. Tins fascinating biography at last shows Byron as he was, sharing, indeed, in the faults of his age. but clearly innocent of the many serious charges which have been alleged against him. It is a rehabilitation of the author of k *Childe Harold.'* with 500 pages of reminiscences of his friendships and contests with Shelley, Trelawney, Goethe, and many others of the chief men of his time. — Exchange.

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