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Price, 75c. SOME FACTS CONCERNING THE "ANGELUS." -In respect to the "Angelus" itself, it is interesting to know that it is accepted on all hands as well-nigh the technical apogee of French art, and hailed by Gambetta, the Agnostic-as it was intended by Millet, the painteras the essence of religious sentiment and unquestioning faith. It is true that one of the most eminent painters on the Continent has asserted that were its title unknown the picture would express no definite idea to the spectator: that the man and woman are no more praying than deploring the rottenness of their potatoes. But Millet believed, and the world confirms the belief, that he had produced one of the most intensely religious pictures that had ever been painted, more fitted to the general drift of modern ideas than the "Virgins" and "Adoration" of a bygone age. The picture was finished in 1859, and remained in the possession of M. Arthur Stevens, without any coveting it. At last, M. de Praet, the Belgian Minister, bought it from him for £100. Later on Mr. J. W. Wilson purchased it from him for £1,440, and when, in 1881, Mr. Wilson's collection came under the hammer, the late Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt gave M. Petit, the dealer, an order to bid £6,000 on his behalf. M. Petit secured it for £6,400, and M. Secrétan, another customer, at like terms, and Mr. Vanderbilt tossed for the possession of it. The former won, but regretting his bargain, he resold it to his dealer for £8,000. Feeling he had blundered, he bought it back again, but this time had to pay £12,000, having the satisfaction of declining an offer of £20,000 from Mr. Rockafeller, of New York. The statement that M. Secrétan paid the latter price for it is therefore a mistake. The dramatic sale of the picture in Paris for £22,120 took place in one of the most exciting scenes ever witnessed in a sale-room, being exceeded only, it is said, by that of the Murillo "Conception," now in the Louvre, at the Marshal Soult sale in 1852, when the approximate sum of £24,000 was reached. What adds to the chagrin with which the French regard the hugeness of the sum that was bidden to retain possession of their masterpiece, is the fact that no purchaser among connoisseurs or collectors could be found to buy the work at Millet's price of £80, and that their own judges of the Salon repeated- Ready for Business; or, Choosing an Occuly and habitually declined to receive his work.-pation. By GEORGE J. MUNSON. 12mo, cloth, 108 pages. Price, 75c. Magazine of Art. The new Eldorado; or, a Summer Trip to Alaska. By M. M. BALLOU. 12mo, cloth, 352 pages. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Price, $1.50. Chambers's Encyclopædia. New edition. Vol. IV., royal 8vo, 828 pages. 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