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Ferret--Knapp Family--Tanthony--Fiat Justitia--San Graal--To learn by
Heart--Folk Talk--Eysell and Captious--Passage in Cymbeline--Skeletons
at Egyptian Banquet--Barker the Panoramist--Royal Library--Dieu et mon
Droit--A Kemble Pipe--Baldrocks._
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NIMROUD OBELISK.--A reduced _Model_ of this interesting Obelisk is just
published, having the Cuneiform Writing, and five rows of figures on
each side, carefully copied from that sent by Dr. Layard to the British
Museum. The Model is in Black Marble, like the original, and stands
twenty inches high. _Mr. Tennant_, 149. Strand, London, will be happy to
show a copy, and receive Subscribers' names. He has also Models of
several Egyptian Obelisks.
THE VERY IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE GEMS OF THE LATE RIGHT HON.
LORD MONSON.--MESSRS. CHRISTIE AND MANSON will Sell by Auction, at their
Great Room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Monday, June 9th, and
following day, at one o'clock precisely, the Valuable Collection of
Exquisite Gems selected from the celebrated Poniatowski Collection by the
Right Hon. Lord Monson, and sold by order of his executors: consisting
of Medallions, Intaglie with subjects from the Iliad, Æneid and
classical Mythology of the very finest work, upon Sards, Agates,
Amethysts, Cornelians, and Almandines, of great beauty and rarity,
mounted in gold. May be viewed, and Catalogues had.