The statue was raised, and the young sculptor, with the shining eye and hectic flush of consumption, beheld it there--returned home--and died.

DROUAIS, a pupil of David, the French painter, was a youth of fortune, but the solitary pleasure of his youth was his devotion to Raphael; he was at his studies from four in the morning till night.
"Painting or nothing!" was the cry of this enthusiast of elegance; "First fame, then amusement," was another.

His sensibility was great as his enthusiasm; and he cut in pieces the picture for which David declared he would inevitably obtain the prize.

"I have had my reward in your approbation; but next year I shall feel more certain of deserving it," was the reply of this young enthusiast.

Afterwards he astonished Paris with his "Marius;" but while engaged on a subject which he could never quit, the principle of life itself was drying up in his veins.