Amusing Instance Of Manner In Which Museums Are Imposed Upon

A very amusing instance of the way in which museums are imposed upon has just come to light, says the St. James' Gazette. At the Frenen revolution, when the Cathedral of St. Den!s was so mutilaterl, the figures which ornamented the ljeautiful gothic tomb of Dagobert were Ihrown down, and for the most part destroyed. all that remained being the body of his Qiieen Nantilde and the head of hls son Clovis. When the restorers stepped in subsequently they made the best they cculd of the bits, putting the son's head on the mother's body and callm it the Reine Nantilde. Not long ago more intelligent restorrs put an end to this absurdity, and there are now to bc seen at St. Dens two statues on Which the original portions of each are preserved. But meanwhile casts of the hybrld were taken, and they still exist in the collection of the Beanx Arts in Paris and in the National Bavarian museum at Munich as examples to students of all that is best in Gothic art. But this is not all. In the great museum at Berlin, in the sculpture department, there is a small statuette of stone, with various cracks and flaws which give it an antiyue appearance which is nothing less than a smaller and very imprudently made counterfeit of the hybrid. The forger feit the difflculty which might be raised to placing a man's head above a woman's bust, and so has modified both to a small extent; but there is not a shadow of doubt that he has succeeded in palming off a most unexpected imposition where he could llttle expect to. If 'tlfe hay trust will only puf fcay fever beyond the reach of mankind it will not have beea ia vain.