ART AND ARTISTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1935, 26 March 1891, Page 32

ART AND ARTISTS.

The world says the Queen intends to appoint Prince Victor of Hobenlohe Langenberg to the office of court sculptor, vacant' by the death of Sir Edgar Boehm. There is no salary attached.

The Empress Frederick has given orders to furnish all German and foreign regiments of which her late husband was chief with a. full length picture or statue of Frederick 111. All cadet houses and war schools will likewise receive piotures. Henna painting is that which renders every Persian particularly loathsome in spite of his outward splendour and rich dressl Henna is a yellow powder obtained from a plant called Lawsonia inermis,' which being dissolved in water furnishes a red dye of brick colour. They dye their fine black beards and their very eyes red. Persons of standing also dye with henna their finger nails and'bands. The Baroness Nathaniel de Botbschild lately purchased a fine collection of objects of Jewish art, gathered ty Strauss, and these she has presented to the Museum of Cluny, where they are now exhibited. Some of the objects date from the twfelfth century, but the majority are of the sixteenth' and seventeenth centuries; they include articles used in the synagogue — lecterns, candlesticks, incense boxes, and an ark ornamented with 54 panels of gieat beauty in carved walnut wood.

The rneanirig of " The Angelus " i 3 the ringing of a bell in Catholic countries and churches, three times a day, to commemorate and call to mind, for the purpose of praise and thanksgiving, the one great thing our Blessed Lord did for us— viz., His Incarnation, His taking upon Him our flesh, andbecomihg man for our sake, that He might save us from our sins. The bell is called " Angelus " because the devotion begins with the words, "Angelus Domini nunciavifc Marire "—the Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary. ____________

Last year £1.301,300 was contributed by people in Great Britain for the promotion of Christianity in heathen lands.