It will be observed that the only living hero in this collection is M. Girardin himself, of whom a brief account is given. He is

Mantouan, Marini, Margaret of Austria, Mauleorier, Hyppolyte de Medici, Don John de Medici, Julian de Medici, Moab, Mongault, James of Monmouth, Hegessippe stated to be the natural son of Count AlexMoreau; Moret, Earl of Murray; M'lle. ander de Girardin, Lieutenant-General of Nantes, Miss Nelson, daughter of Admiral cavalry. The name of his other parent is not Nelson; Nicomaches, son of Aristotle; Oleg- alluded to. I have heard that from her he gio John Philip, of Orleans; Palemon, Per- inherits Orleanist blood. He received no icles, the son of Aspasia and Pericles; Philip, early education. In 1823 he entered the Bishop of Utrecht; Phillipine Prevost, Pom- house of the King as an attaché of the Secponius Laetus, Pongens, Ptolemy XI., Ptol- retary-General. His patron was turned out emy, Philadelphus, Ptolemy, King of Mace- of office, and then, like Beranger, he tried to don; Ptolemy, King of Cyrenia; Ptolemy, be a broker. Like Beranger he failed at this, King of Cyprus; Rubempre, Saint Albin, and like Beranger he next undertook to, and Saint Marcellin, Alonzo Sanchez, Marie succeeded in living by his pen. He made Aurore de Saxe, natural daughter of Marshal considerable money in the Presse, but much Saxe and grandmother of George Sand; more since, speculating in real estate, which I Scacchie, La Scala, (Antony and William,) hear is now his chief occupation. He is said Sendwog, Seyssel, Alexander Sforza, John to be very rich, but to have lost all his influSforza, Sogdieu, Philip Stanhope, son of the ence as a politician, not only with the govern Earl of Chesterfield, the Strozzi, Swientopelk, ment but with the people. The book he has Tende, Teresa of Portugal, Torquato, son of just published is not likely to improve his Cardinal Bembo; Urrea, Alexander, Ven- position much, nor is any one authorized to dome, Cæsar Vendome, Lyonnel Vendome, say that it will mar it, the marriage sanction Vermandris, Verneuil, Villena, Visconti, (Am-| being used here for such different purposes brose, Hector, Blanche, Brutio, and Marie- from any that are contemplated by it among Gabrielle,) Vologese I., Weiss, Zbigniew, Zeiad. the Anglo-Saxon race.

J. B.

BLIGHT DESTROYER.-Many remedies have been recommended from time to time for that most pertinacions plague, the aphis, which so frequently nips in the bud our favorite rose and many other flowers. We have seen lotions of various kinds used, fumigations of tobacco and other noxious fumes, but too often the remedy has proved worse than the disease and the plant has suffered. After all, a mechanical remedy in the shape of a stiflish brush is perhaps the best: and we notice a very useful contrivance of this kind invented by Mr. Worth, which is to be had of the principal florists and seedsmen. This may be described as like a pair of spring shears having a small brush at the end of each blade, so that these brushes may be compressed together round a twig or bud with the greatest delicacy, and worked so as to brush off the flies, the spring handles allowing it to be readily applied without injury to the plant.-Spectator.

NEW MODE OF HANGING PICTURES.-A very simple and handy method for hanging pictures has lately been patented by Mr. Adams of

the Haymarket. It consists in taking one or two strips of brass, which are made strong and at the same time ornamented with a pattern upon them; these are either hooked upon the rod which is usually fixed along the cornice of a room, or fastened by a common brass-headed nail; and are allowed to hang down against the wall. Upon this band slides a kind of stud, capable of being fixed tight by turning the head with a screw, and upon this stud which has a projecting nob, is placed the ring which is fastened to all picture frames, and thus the picture is hung. The advantages of this plan are-that pictures are very easily taken down or put up; or if it is wished to examine a picture closely, it may be readily lowered by loosening the sliding pegs, and easily restored to its position and fixed there. The proper height with regard to light is obtained with less difficulty than in the requisite shortening er lengthening of the cord generally employed. Almost any number of pictures may be hung upon the same strips, and their relative position varied to please the fancy without much trouble.-Spectator.

No. 794.-13 August, 1859.-Third Series, No. 72.

SHORT ARTICLES.-Ancient Mineralogy, 391. "If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out," 391. Wonderful Book of Nijaguna, 391. The Creed, 423. 436. Purgatory, 436. Holy Water, 438. Images, 438. Oriental Wells, 448. Spiritual Discipline of the Brahmins,

Ventilating Corsets, 436. Relics, Elijah, 438. Enoch and Elias, 438. 448. Biographies of Girabaldi, 448.

PORTRAIT GALLERY CONCLUDED.

WITH the twenty-eighth portrait, contained in this number, we bring to a conclusion the Gallery of Portraits.

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