62 THE STRAND MAGAZINE.
CSAINT DRAPED IN A HANDKERCHIEL. From Photo. by Elliott & Fro.
the tiny statuette, as now secen, and, as the starch dried, the fabric stilfened, Still retain- Ing its most dC]lC‘lLCly natural folds. Poor Ewing ! He died u poverty, and was buried in New York. A great actor, whose name has alrcady been mcntmncd stood by him till the last.
It is impossible to catalogue the curiosi- ties in the study ; every one of them has a history., A little stuffed canary was d pre- sent from the late lady Roscbery. It died ; it almost sang itsclf to death, so loud and sweet and hc quent were 1ts notes. These ostrich eges hanging from the ceil- ing were stolen from a mosque in Morocco. Mr. Sala was the receiver, and he revels in his crime. This picture 1s curious. It 1s executedd on a common fourpenny dish, purchascd in the Tottenham Court-road. It was held over the smoke of a candle, and, after the artist had worked on it with his nails and penknife, a charming Italian land- scape was the result. A table of cighteen diffircnt‘ kinds of wood was presented to Mr. Sala by the New Zealand Government. A g]as.x case contains presentation silver, including a massive scervice from the pro-
pndmsni 1The Daily Zelegraph on Mr. Sala’s fifticth birthday. The pictures, too, are striking—dozens of Millais' eNeTravings, Munk Caton Woodville, B(nwhton Story, and pamtmns by De \\’1tt. Stothmdt Montalba, another Doré,a Keceley Halswelle, and numecrous others from notable artists. Amongst the pictorial curiosities being some studies by I£. M. Ward for his great pic- ture of “Napolwn and Queen T.ouisa of Prussia at "Tilsit, 1808 " 5 “*Ape,” aped by himsclf,” which means the late Carlo Pel- lcgrmi caricaturing himscelf; and a pic- torially addressed envelope, w hich was done by Augustus Mavhew, one of the brothers M a\hu\ of Punch, the dog being a por- trait of a pug bc]()nnmn Lo the artist's wife, who was, and still 15, a mcat breeder of pugs. On the top of a shelf is the bust of Beaconsheld. It will be IC]llCIanI‘Cd that Mr. Sala gave important evidence at the famous trial, and stated how he saw the sculptor take a piece of clay and make the curl which was wont to be scen on the great statesman’s forchead. This is the first cast for the statue in question. Now 1t was that we scttled down to talk.
"AI’F,,” AVPED BY HINMSELFR. roma Photo. by Eiott o I,