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Show 250 TilE I,InlmTY fl}jJ,lJ. calling me from home, Cumbcrworth (of course !) came in my absence. Again I felt a sensation of relief, -one by no moans unimlJorb:mt, since I was not prepared to meet him. I hnd already spent for the Anti-Slavery Bazaar all the money I could spare, and more too ; aml the price of one only of these charming statuettes would be three hundred francs. Besides, it would not be a good pecuniary investment. So far from it, that I could hnrdly hope it would bo purchased at all. Much as this man's works had interested me, I felt, on the whole, glad that the interview might be postponed to a more convenient season. A short time nfterwards, my eye was drawn by his name to the following paragraph in the ncwspnpcr :- " We regret to announce to our readers, the death of Monsieur Charles Cumberworth, pcrhnps the most distinguished of all tho pupils of Praclicr, whom he follows so speedily to the tomb. IIis mind was eminently original, and lmving chosen n Tilt; SCL' Ll'l'Oit OP 'l'l!Jo: 'l'Onmo ZO:->K 251 ficlcl of art which gave hi.m tho o . ns original in exec f . pportumty to Le u JOn us Ill dcsi n h successful in its cult' f g • e was most tva 10n. He had years within the tro . . passed three ptcs, Ill studyinrr th the plants that th , . o e races and osc tcgtans include . . Ncgi'O Woman at the fou t . . ' and In~ n am, Ius Indian :M tl and her Infant 'th o 1er ' W1 a multitude of sim'l jccts, attest with what admirabl 1 ar sub~ ' e results. He died a few days since, at V orsailles, of consumptioJJ, aged 45." Now, when I sec these a dl lll.l 'a bl c works 1 do constantly, in every fine II . ' as . . . . co cellon of bronzes in Pari.S , It IS With a continually recuru:n g regret that havmg one moment disobeyed ' in tl lOug hI only the' watchword 41 immediately ' " I cnn never on e' arth see and know Cumberworth, nor tllank him for what his genius hns done to reinstate a race b sanctifying nr 1 to lh e servt.c c of humanity. ' Y PariB, <ktobcr, 1862. |