29 SEPTEMBER 1860, Page 21

lint arts. .

M. Alexandre Dumas, it is said, has been appointed Director of the Museum of Naples and of the excavations carried on at Pompeii. The Museum, which was known as the " Museo Borbonico," is one of the richest in works of antique art in Europe, containing a vast collection of the rarest bronzes, vases, &D., found at Pompeii and Herculaneum, be- sides the magnificent group the "Toro Farnese," and the colossal "Flora Farnese," and the renowned gallery of Venuses, of which the " Kallipyge " is the most celebrated.