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The poor tradesman accepted the promise literally; and replied passionately to the proud Antonio, "Telle est la force de mon amour, que je ne crains point d'esperer qu'il ne produise le miracle de me faire de serrurier un illustre peintre comme toi. Donne-moi dix années, et je me soumets alors à ton jugement. Consulte maintenant ta fille pour savoir si elle peut attendre aussi long-temps; et si elle ne doute pas de mon succès, alors renouvelle ta parole en presence de la Princèsse. Colantonio promit tout au Zingaro qui lui paraissait veritablement fou.

"Le Zingaro avoit vingt-sept ans. Il crut devoir quitter Naples pour aller à la recherche de son talent; peut-être fut-il aussi invitè à s'éloigner par Colantonio del Fiore embarrassé d'un pareil prétendu. Arrivé à Rome il ne trouva pas de maître qui fut à sa guise; car malgrè le retour des papes d'Avignon, et l'envie qu'ils avoient d'embellir le Vatican, il n'y avait alors aucun peintre Romain de quelque reputation. Le divin frère Angelique, et Mosaicco qui fleurirent bientôt, étoient Florentins. Il partit pour Bologne. Les graciéuses et populaires Madones de Lippo Dalmasio peintes en plein vent sur les murs des maisons, qui valurent à l'artiste Bolonais le surnom de Lippo dalle Madonne,' l'avaient touché. . . . .La Zingaro confia son amour et ses espérances au maître dont il ambitionnait les leçons." &c. &c.

We are sorry we cannot give the whole of the story; our readers will judge for themselves of the lively and interesting style in which it is written. We must, however, assure them, that talents and perseverance had their usual reward in success. Colantonio could not refuse his child to one who had done so much to deserve her; and he gave her to him, saying, "I give my daughter to this man's merit, not to his birth.' "Do mia figlia sposa alla virtu non al natali di costui."

On the subject of architecture there is an interesting anecdote in the chapter dedicated to Percièr, page 414, which we regret our limits do not permit us to quote. We have only further to observe that besides the amusing souvenirs it contains, the reader will find this book a model of a pure French style.

"Trois Ans en Espagne," by M. Le Baron Demboroski. Paris, 1842. Chez Lacombe. London: Rolandi, 20, Berners Street. This is a very interesting and lively work written with great spirit, and full of those anecdotes peculiar to the nation and its social state,

that are only learnt by a residence of some length in a country, and by mixing freely with every class of society. The political parties of Spain, their rise and their changes; secret societies; gypsies; the natural beauties of this romantic land, have each due notice. The book is written in the form of letters addressed to different persons. The letters on the ballads of Spain and the influence of these on the people, greater perhaps than in any other country, interested us particularly. The ballad is an element of society exercising its influence from childhood upwards. Are our readers aware that Don Juan, the hero of so many poems, dramas, &c., had a real prototype, of the same name, and otherwise called "Ingannador," the deceiver of Seville; that at Seville at this day is a church called the Church of Don Juan de Maranha? The following legend is said to explain its erection. Don Juan the deceiver was imitated and admired by many young men, but his most celebrated disciple was Don Juan de Maranha; this young gentleman emulated his namesake, and almost rivalled him. One evening

at Seville, after revelling with his companions, he walked along the street, and chanced to meet a funeral. He asked whose it was. The reply was, it is the funeral of Don Juan de Maranha. He walked on, and in passing near a church observed a bier, and monks performing the funeral service. He felt himself impelled to enter the church, and inquire who was the defunct. Don Juan de Maranha, was the reply. Struck with these extraordinary circumstances, he regarded them as a vision sent to warn him of his approaching death. He reformed his life, became a model of piety, and founded the cathedral which bears his name.

We regret we cannot at present give extracts from the book; we can only recommend our friends to read it for themselves.

Memorie Originali Italianè riguardanti le Belle Arti, edite da M. A. Gualandi. Bologna, 1841-2. Tipografia, Marsigli.

Original Italian Memoirs regarding the Fine Arts, edited by M. A. Gualandi.

Signor M. A. Gualandi is one of the most distinguished amateurs and collectors of objects of the Fine Arts in Italy. He resides in Bologna, and from thence makes excursions to various parts of Italy for the purpose of examining the public and private archives; and thus at much expense has procured authentic copies of many original docu

ments regarding the lives of the ancient artists, their works, in short every branch of the fine arts.

It is easy to see how important are documents so authentic for establishing and illustrating many controverted points, and how curious and interesting it is to become acquainted with many minute particulars of men so celebrated in former times.

We have received so many new books in various languages that offer large materials worthy of notice, and the time and space being both too short to allow of an analysis and quotations from this work such as we should desire, we propose to defer it to a future occasion. We cannot, however, avoid remarking, that we have found many things of much importance among these Memoirs, and a quantity of interesting and learned notes regarding the MS. elegantly written by Signor Gualandi, to whom we wish perseverance and success in completing this laborious collection, which will hereafter be consulted by all literary amateurs. P.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

SIR JOHN WILLIAM LUBBOCK has been succeeded in the office of Vice-Chancellor by JOHN GEORGE SHAW LEFEVRE, Esq., F R.S.

Masters of Arts who took their degree at the May examination of this year.

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Mr. William Shaen also obtained the gold medal in Branch III. (Logic, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of the Mind, Political Philosophy, and Political Economy.)

The examinations for degrees to take place during the present year, and the scholarships and exhibitions annexed to them are as follows :

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ARTS.

Bachelor of Arts. October, 3rd-28th.

University Scholarship in Mathematics, £50 a-year for three years.

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LAWS.

Bachelor of Laws. November 14th, &c.

University Law Scholarship, in Jurisprudence, £50 a-year, for three years.
Doctor of Laws. November. Gold medal (value £20).

MEDICINE.

Bachelor of Medicine. August 1st-12th. First examination. Exhibition in Anatomy and Physiology. £30 a-year, for two years.

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Chemistry.
Materia Medica and Pharmaceutical Chemistry.

Also, two gold medals (value £5) in each of the above subjects.

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Batchelor of Medicine. November 7th-25th. Second Examination. University Scholarship in Physiology and Comparative Anatomy. £50 a-year, for two years.

University Scholarship in Surgery. £50 a-year for two years.

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Also, two gold medals (value £5) in each of the above subjects.

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Each a gold medal (value

To the author of the best Commentary on a case in Medicine,
To the author of the best Commentary on a case in Surgery,
To the author of the best Commentary on a case in Midwifery,
To the author of the best Thesis, a gold medal (value £10).

£5.)

We have reason to believe that a Commission in Her Majesty's Army or Navy is to be offered to one of the best proficients among the M. B.'s of this year. The list submitted (last year) to Sir James M'Grigor, from which to select one for a Commission in Her Majesty's Army, consisted of

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Mr. Potter declining, Mr. Parkes was selected by Sir J. M'Grigor; and having received his Commission, has gone to join his Regiment in India.

The Presbyterian College at Caermaethen has lately been added to the list of lastitutions empowered to issue Certificates to Candidates for Degrees in Arts and Laws, which now therefore consists of the following :

University College, London.

King's College, London.

St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw.
Stonyhurst College.

Royal Belfast Academical Institution.

Bristol College.

Manchester New College.

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St. Mary's College, Oscott.
Carlow College.

St. Edmund's College, near Ware.

Homerton Old College.

Highbury College.

Colleges of St. Peter and St. Paul, at Prior Park, near Bath.
Spring Hill College, Birmingham.

Stepney College.

College of St. Gregory the Great, Downside, near Bath.

Countess of Huntingdon's College, at Cheshunt.

Baptist College, at Bristol.

Airedale College, Undercliffe, near Bradford.

Protestant Dissenters' College at Rotheram.

Presbyterian College at Caermarthen.

The classical subjects selected for the B. A. examinations in 1842, 1843, and 1844.

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Cicero,-The Somnium Scipionis. The Second Philippic. The Orations for Ligarius and for Archias.

Demosthenes,-De Coronâ ;

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Virgil,-The Eclogues, and First Six Books of the Æneid.

Herodotus, The Fourth Book;

1844.

Cosar, The Civil War, and the Fifth and Sixth Books of the Gallic War.

Works selected for the examination in Logic, Moral, and Intellectual Philosophy, for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine in the present year :

Logic,........

Philosophy of the Mind,
Moral Philosophy,..

Bacon's Novum Organum, Part I.

Cousin's Analysis of Locke's Essay (being the third volume of his Cours de Philosophie.)

Butler's Analogy, Part I.

Stewart's Outlines of

Moral Philosophy.

LONDON: FISHER, SON, AND CO., PRINTERS.

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