ANTOINE CHRYSOSTOME, a distinguished French archaeologist, was born at Paris in 1758. He was just beginning to be known as a writer on art, when he became involved in the political broils of the French revolution. Entering the Legislative Assembly in 1791, he took his stand for constitutional monarchy. His unswerving adherence to that cause brought him into trouble and danger at several of the momentous stages of the struggle. During the Reign of Terror he lay for thirteen months in prison. After the insurrection of the 13th Vendémiaire he was sentenced to death, and was obliged to skulk in concealment for nearly a year. In 1797 also, the year in which he sat in the council of the Five Hundred, he would have been banished to Cayenne, had he not consulted his safety by a temporary absence from the capital. The rest of Quatremere-de-Quincy's long life was spent in peaceful activity. There were several offices in connection with learning to which he was called at different times. In 1814 Louis XVIII. made him censor-royal, and intendant of arts and public monuments. In 1815 he was named member of the Council of Public Instruction. In the following year the Institute elected him a member, and the Academy of the Fine Arts appointed him their perpetual honorary secretary. Nor were his literary faculties meanwhile unemployed. He wrote numerous works on the history and theory of art. He composed funeral orations on many of his fellow-academicians. It was not until a few years before his death, in 1849, that his pen was laid aside. The following are some of Quatremere-de-Quincy's principal works:

Le Jupiter Olympien, 1814; Lettres Addressées à M. Camoux sur les Marbres d'Egypte, 8vo, Rome, 1818; De la Nature du Bois et des Moyens de l'imitation dans les Beaux-Arts, 8vo, 1822; Histoire de la Vie et des Ouvrages de Raphaël, 1824; Monuments et Ouvrages d'Art Antiques recueillis, 4to, Paris, 1828-1829; and Essai sur l'Idéal, 1837.