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7. Dr, Cutbush's treatise on Pyrotechny. 



Mrs. Cutbush, widow of the late Dr. Cutbush of West 

 Point, proposes to publish by subscription, a treatise on Pyro- 

 techny by her deceased husband. Dr. James Cutbush, late 

 acting professor of chemistry in the National MiHtary Acad- 

 emy. 



From the reputation which Dr. Cutbush sustained, as well 

 as from the ability which his elaborate treatises on these sub- 

 jects, already published in this Journal, display, (Vol. VI. pa. 

 302, and Vol. VII. pa. 118) there can be no doubt that this 

 posthumous work will be worthy of the public patronage, 

 which we hope will be liberally bestowed, both on account of 

 the importance of the subject, and of the interests of the 

 worthy family, for whose emolument the work will be pub- 

 lished. We understand that in November there were already 

 two hundred subscribers, and that the work will be put to 

 press as soon as the subscription shall justify that step. 



8. American Sculpture. 



We have been recently much gratified, by a production m 

 statuary, of a self-taught artist. Mr. Hezekiah Augur, of New- 

 Haven. Mr, Augur is by profession a carver in wood, and 

 has been, for several years, distinguished in that elegant art; 

 but he had, until recently, never attempted any thing in sculp- 

 ture. It had never been in his power even to see any thing of 

 the kind ; he had never in his life, beheld a statue or a bust^ 

 and had formed his ideas of them, from plaster models only. 

 His friends were therefore much surprised, when they saw 

 him at work, upon a marble head of Dr. Franklin, and they 

 were still more astonished to find that he succeeded in produ- 

 cing a perfect likeness to his original, which was a bust of 

 the great American philosopher, carved in wood, and painted 

 white, which, for more than thirty years, stood as a sign, on 

 the portico of the classical book store of I. Beers, (afterwards 

 Beers &: Howe,) near the public buildings of Yale College. 



Mr. Augur, encouraged by this result, next attempted the 

 bust of Apollo, having for his model, only a plaster cast. 

 He wrought this piece of work from a good block of Carrara 

 marble, the celebrated material of nearly ail the modern, and 



