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a member of the Medical Societies of Paris, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and Berlin. 

 Sir George began his career in the army, and was for some years Surgeon to the 

 33d Regiment of Foot. The profession is indebted to him for several valuable con- 

 tributions to medical literature, the chief of which are: "Observations on the Dis- 

 eases of the European Troops in India ;" " Observations on the Site and Construc- 

 tion of Military Hospitals ;" and " Outline of Military Surgery." 



ROBERT MONTGOMERY. 



English papers record the death of the Rev. Robert Montgomery as one of the 

 events of the closing year. If popularity, as proved by the sale of numerous suc- 

 cessive editions, could have proved the author of ''The Omnipresence of the Deity," 

 "Satan," etc., to be a poet, this writer had abundant credentials, some of his 

 volumes having gone through fourteen editions. Long since, however, Wilson, in 

 Blackwood, exposed his vapid and hollow pretensions, and Macaulay in the Edin- 

 burgh Review, anatomized him with his keen critical scalpel. To the latter notice 

 of him, included in the collected Essays of the historian, we may possibly owe 

 some remembrance of him by posterity, such as his own turgid verse could not 

 secure for him. 



AMERICAN SCULPTRESS. 



The correspondent of the Toronto Leader, writing from Rome, November 5th, 

 remarks : — <l What prevents a woman from being a scuiptoress? One of Mr. Gib- 

 Hon's students is a young lady, from Boston Mass., of the name of Hosir.an. This 

 Miss Hosaian promises to rival her countryman, Powers. She is not a mere 

 chiseller : she is a woman of original ideas and uncommon energy of execution. 

 The grjatest sculptor of the age speaks of her talents in a very flattering way. She 

 has in hai-d a model of the Cenci, the young lady who is the victim of Shelly's 

 powerful tragedy of the Cenci. There was hardly any object in Rome that I so 

 much wished to see as the Palace of the Cenci, if it still existed, or anything relating 

 to it, if it existed no more ; and here I find a young American lady carrying into 

 effect her own original idea of treating this subject in sculpture. It has never before 

 been so treated. Portraits of the youthful victim there have been. I saw one this 

 morn! by Guido, the morning before her execution. It was in the 



studio of Batti, an Italian artist. Ratti has not merely given the portrait, but the 

 whole scene; the judge, the victim, and Guido taking her portrait. Don. Mr. Ross 

 has purchased this picture. The model which Miss Hosman is making represents 

 the victim lying in prison before her execution. She lies on her left cheek, with 

 her right arm folded round her head, and her left arm hanging down. Mr. Gibson 

 says, there is a month's work on this model still to be done. I also saw a finished 

 statue by Miss Hosman. It was ffinone, the sheperdess. The execution was very 

 good." 



:arcely necessary to remark that this is by no means the first example of 

 the successful practice of the sculptor's art by a lady ; though the "Beatrice" of 

 Shelly'- " Cenci" is a subject of rather singular choice for a lady artist. The woiks 

 of the Hon. Mrs. Darner's chisel are well known in England; the more recent Joan 

 ire, of the French d'Orleans Princess, ie familiar to us all, at i tuette 



copies; and Properzia the celebrated female sculptor of Bologna, has had 



her artistic nts recorded, both in prose and v> 



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