surface of which had been roughly polished, most in vogue. Like the young Abbé Gondè least dispute their sticks shod with iron are served as a table, and there were inscribed de Retz, he was known for certain to have in the air; the Basques fence with them, the deliberations and the decrees of the fought five or six duels, and he still preserved with an art which has its rules and its procouncil: the members composing the as- his band. One day in the middle of a game fessors as well as the sabre and the sword; sembly, standing and leaning on thorn of tennis in which he was engaged, one of a more dangerous arm is in use among sticks, and with their backs against old his clients came and took him by the arm. them; it is the long knife worn in a sheath: oaks, which formed a circle, had as much" You must absolutely make my memorial," in vain do you try to make them blush at respect for this wild spot as the Romans had for the capitol adorned with the images of their gods. Indeed the Basques called, and still call, it Capitoli herri (Capital of the country.)

said he, "if I do not present it this evening I am undone." Leon calls for pen and ink, writes the memorial on a stone, and gains both the game at tennis and the law-suit. "Of four sons of M. Gurat Senior, the one "When I returned to these mountains has been led, by an invincible organisation, after the reign of terror, I did not find," said if we may use such an expression, to talents M. Destere, "the least vestige of these sa- of another kind but not of another order, cred monuments of the Capitoli herri. It since they have placed his name among was then that in my first visit to Switzer- those of the musicians of Europe who have land I went to view, near Morat, the chapel acquired the highest degree of celebrity where the piled up bones of the soldiers of in the charming art in which he excels. The Charles the Bold held out a useful lesson to others without having acquired the same rethe defenders of national liberty, and a ter-putation follow honorably the several prorible example to the satellites of tyrants: fessions which they have embraced." when I returned ten years afterwards, these instructive relics had been scattered by the delirium of liberty armed against herself. "Ustaritz has lost every thing; it has no longer a Bilcar, no tribunal; it is no longer the medium for the trade in wood between France and Spain; the families are becoming extinct, the houses are falling into ruin, or are abandoned to reptiles and the birds of night. How rapid is the progress of decay and destruction! This same Ustaritz still sees a great number of men and women walk upon its ruins, who were the last witnesses of the prosperity of this commune, the cradle of a whole family of celebrated men.

*. You are copious in your eulogiums, said I to my Cicerone, and though I am one of the few old men, who are not soon tired of hearing men well spoken of, I like to know the whole truth: the most beautiful medal has its reverse, and you have hitherto spoken to me of only the good qualities of your Basques. The answer of M. 'Destère is sufficiently paradoxical to induce me to relate it word for word.

using such a weapon; they consider it merely as a sword shorter than our swords, and consequently more favorable to courage, since it obliges them to fight at closer quarters; it is precisely the answer of the Lacedemonian mother to her son, who complained that his sword was too short: lengthen it by a step.'

"I must say, that revenge, that ferocious passion which delights in blood, has often exercised its fury in our mountains. I could relate to you twenty anecdotes, which would put you in mind of the hereditary hatreds of some ancient races, which have become the property of tragedy; I confine myself to one fact, of which many witnesses are still living.

"A director of the customs named Lacoste, residing at Bidache, had dismissed a Basque Douanier against whom various complaints had been made which seemed well founded; the Douanier wrote to his superior to justify himself; the director returns no answer; a second, a third letter have the same fate, though the latter spoke of a wife and three children condemned to starve, by an unjust decision.' Forty-eight hours after this, the Douanier, with a carbine on his shoulder traverses in open day the streets of Bidache, which were full of people, as if he were going to make an official report; goes into the house of the director of the customs, enters his office, aims and fires at him; a boy of fourteen darts forward and receives the ball in his thigh; the Douanier retires with the same coolness, and goes home, where he shoots himself through the head. The young victim of filial piety, who was miraculously snatched from the jaws of death by the care of a skilful physician whom chance had brought to Bidache, is the same M. Lacoste who was the last minister of the Marine but one in France, under the reign of Louis XVI."

Men," said he," and particularly tribes of men, differ much more by their good than by their bad qualities: evil is pretty nearly the same every where; it is the good which is different. The antique medal of the Basque nation has its reverse as well as another; but on this reverse there is still a kind of arugo which has its particular character. The secret protest of the human heart against the right of property (that I may avoid saying the inclination to theft), has perhaps more strength here than else where: religion alone can persuade those who have nothing that they have not a legitimate title to the superfluity of those who have too much: domestic robbery is rare; cheating unknown: but attacks by men with arms in their hands, on the roads and "A brother of this celebrated lawyer has in the houses have been frequent at different obtained one of the first places among the times, and unhappily some instances of cou- In writing these last lines on the country philosophical writers who do honor to Eu-rage which the robbers have displayed, have of the Basques which I leave in an hour, rope: his lectures at the Normal School will too much covered the horror which these I perceive that I have done like Vernet, who remain models of that didactic eloquence of anti-social actions ought to inspire. We designed to stop only two days in these parts

"One of the orators whose eloquence has given the most lustre to the bar of Bordeaux, M. Gurat the elder, was born at Ustaritz: being chosen deputy to the States General, where he remained till his death, devoted to the cause of his King, but without being indifferent to the triumph of liberty, a more brilliant career opened to him; but an indisposition which lasted almost as long as the session of that assembly, allowed him to appear but seldom at the tribune; whenever he did so he was sure of success.

which he was in some measure the creator. have had our Roberts chiefs of banditti, and where he remained so long: unhappily I "The youngest of the three brothers fol- I recollect having been present when a child have not such good excuses to make: the lowed the profession of the elder, in a coun- at the trial of one of these heroes of the pictures of Bayonne and its environs are try where he was not only celebrated, but a highway who was condemned to death by masterpieces: the Basques, when they look little of a prophet, in spite of the proverb. the parliament of Bordeaux. They placed at them at Paris, fancy themselves at SaintI know not from what particular attachment before him the instruments of torture pre- Pierre-Dirubé and Bayonne. The Basque to his person, the self-love of the Basques pared to extort from him the names of his women of his sea pieces are the same that seemed to be interested in raising Leon Gu- accomplices: he took from his head his continually cross the bridge of Saint Esprit, rat above all. He neither was nor sought to Phrygian bonnet, and addressing it, said over the Adour; the same who figure every be eloquent or learned; but no one had a "When you speak, I will speak;" and in the Sunday in the fêtes of Cunte- Prast, the situsounder judgment, a stronger understanding, agonies of torture he spoke no more than his ation of which between the Adour and the or clearer penetration; his first glance at a bonnet. It may be supposed that such men Nive, the Pyrenees and the Ocean, is one cause distinguished the truth, his first word neither fear custom-house officers nor scru- of those where nature and art have united threw light upon it. No gravity was proof ple to carry on smuggling; there is on this the greatest number of picturesque beau against his pleasantries, and his bon mots frontier a continual war; morals, agriculties: a delightful spot worthy to be the re are fresh in the memory of all his contem-ture, and industry, suffer much by it. treat of wisdom, of eloquence, of the science poraries. At the age of twenty, with a hand- Among passionate youth, who are often of legislation; it is the abode of M. Chesome person, and a prodigious superiority in assembled in public places, quarrels are ne- garai. all bodily exercises, he was the counsellor cessarily frequent and often fatal. At the

THE TROUBLESOME MAN.

“Avec des talens, de l'esprit et des vertns, on se rend insupportable dans la Société par des defauts legers, mais qui se fait sentir à tout

moment."

me."

ine,

next time he calls."

portrait of a friend which is ever staring in that he is unrivalled in the presence of twenyour face without seeing you. He cannot ty competitors. be accused of entertaining any undue feeling "One of the most provoking absurdities of pride on account of the noble name he of Volsange, is, that he absolutely imagines VOLTAIRE. bears: his constant maxim is that every man there are no pretty women to whom he has I called on Madame L yesterday, is the child of his own actions. He repeats to not paid his court, nor important events in about two o'clock. I found her talking to all who have patience to listen to him, that which he has not had a share. His connecher Portier at the top of the drawing-room he is more proud of the least degree of tion with Madame Lde, and his stairs. "Have I not desired you, Martinet," knowledge acquired by his own application, motions in the Constitutional Assembly, of said she, "to place M. de Volsange on the list than of the high birth which his ancestors which he was a member, are the inexhausof visitors whom I never receive in the morn- have conferred on him. He sets forth this tible themes of his conversation. To these ing?" "Pardon Madam..... It was eminently philosophic text on all occasions, subjects he unceasingly alludes, and to not my fault. I told him you had gone out. but chiefly when in the presence of those whatever distance you may repel him, he Ah! that's the usual excuse of a Suisse, said who are most personally interested in de- will, by means of a dozen transitions, suche; but you know she is always at home to fending the only prerogative they possess: ceed in regaining his ground. One might "Well, go down stairs, Martinet, you this is certainly not calculated to conciliate indeed pardon this monopoly of conversamust contrive to make him believe you the their good-will, and they observe with some tion, which, it must be allowed, he exercises reason that his pride of not being proud is with some talent: but then he declaims "Who," said I to Madame de L-, " is pushed to the last extremity. with such a magisterial air; instead of tellthis M. de Volsange, whom you so cruelly "To such a length did he carry his humi-ing a thing simply, he declares it so solemnly, discard?" "He is a Gentleman of rank," lity, that after the death of his first wife, he that I confess I frequently feel inclined to she replied," endowed with wit and talent, did not disdain to pay homage to the charms contradict him even when his opinion perand what is still better, possessing the most and virtues of her waiting-woman: the fectly accords with my own. Should he virtuous principles." "Then, I suppose latter was either wise or prudent enough to condescend to ask a question, and you are you refuse to receive him, to save the rest of reject the proposals which he at first ven- about to reply, he will stop you to demand your friends from the humiliation which his tured to address to her, and he accordingly an explanation of every word you utter, and presence might create?" "Oh! by no thought himself bound to marry this Pam- seems to rejoice at the irritation which his means, Sir! But he has one fault which ela, that virtue might not pass unrewarded. conduct creates. If any one at table should overbalances all his good qualities: he is "There are two things by which an indi- take advantage of the extinction of voice, to intolerably troublesome." "How! with vir-vidual may be rendered truly disagreeable: which he is fortunately liable, and should tue, talent and wit? From any other mouth faults inherent to one's character, and absur- succeed in fixing the attention of the comthan yours, Madame, such a reproach might dities arising from habit. In Volsange both pany to some interesting recital, Volsange be deemed complimentary to the person are combined: this feeling of pride under against whom it is directed." "Ah! Sir, the disguise of humility, to which I have you, I know, are accustomed to look only just alluded, leads him to fancy himself on for intrinsic worth, you think but lightly of a footing of equality with his superiors as that which is termed relative virtue. But weil as his inferiors. He is thus a continual you will surely allow that since the social source of uneasiness either to himself or qualities are innate in mankind, we can others. enjoy only in society the happiness of which our condition is susceptible. You wish to "Sincerity is doubtless an amiable virtue; be happy, and so do I. 'Tis a common senVolsange, however, manages to render it timent which leads us to dislike him who something worse than a vice. Though he stands up to oppose our self-love and plea-intentional rudeness, yet he is everlastingly cannot be accused either of malignity or sure, even though he should combat on the side of virtue."

that you, Madam, were not among the number." "A faithful portrait, replied the lady, will bring you to my way of thinking much sooner than a metaphysical discussion, in which you, Sir, will have a mighty advantage

will seize every means of occasioning interruption, by talking in a low tone of voice to those who are near him, or by offering to help some of the company to a dish which they have repeatedly refused; he disputes about names and dates, or disappoints the narrator by announcing in anticipation the result of the adventure which he is relating.

"But the essential faults in the character of Volsange do not so much contribute to ber of little absurdities which he carries render him disagreeable, as an infinite nummaking observations calculated to give of with him in the commerce of habitual life. fence to some one near him. Should he be Ask Cecile why she dislikes him, and she "This, Madame L—, is a definition of in company with a lady, who, though some- will tell you that he is continually plaguing the troublesome man, which would figure ad- what advanced in years, still retains suffi- her to dance with him, and that he spoils mirably well in a Chapter of Condillac, but cient beauty to make one forget her age, every country-dance in which he takes a on the authority of which, I should, as an he will probably allude to some remote part, by blundering in the figure. A downimpartial judge, hesitate to decide between event, her recollection of which would be right scourge at a concert, he is sure to seize him and his accusers, always supposing nearly equivalent to producing a register the very moment when one's ear is most of her baptism. I met him the other day agreeably captivated, to open a door, or to at the house of my niece, where he had been walk across the room, making the flooring dining with an academician who had been creak under his heavy footsteps. Should elected only the day before, and who was you agree to let him have a seat in your box highly ostentatious of the honour conferred at the Theatre, you must make up your Volsange, however, took the mind not to hear a single sentence of the "M. de Volsange, who seems to have been utmost pains to convince him that academic play. If the fine acting of Talma produce sent into the world for the sole purpose of distinctions were almost always shared by on you a sensation of horror, if you are de being troublesome, contrives to turn his those who least deserved them. He fan- lighted with Mudame Mars, or enchanted very advantages to account in fulfilling his cies he would be flattering the vices or by the divine voice of Madame Branchu; destination. His figure, which is immea-adopting the errors of those with whom he he will talk of Lekain, Mademoiselle Contat, sureably tall, overtops all around him; if converses, if he did not, at least indirectly, or Madame Saint Nuberti. The emotion of he offers his arm to a lady, it is with the overwhelm them with reproach. He never the young lady who sits next him will perutmost difficulty she can reach it. His fea- lets slip an opportunity of saying what he haps occasion her to shed tears, the tormenttures are neither wanting in regularity or conceives to be the truth, and is never de-ing Volsange will immediately use every dignity; but they are all so immoveably terred either by the fear of losing a friend effort to destroy the pleasing illusion, and fixed to the place which they occupy in his or creating a mortal enemy. Boundless in will make her blush for her sensibility by countenance, that neither the joy nor grief of others produce the slightest alteration on them. He follows you with his eyes, but never with his thoughts; he is like the

over me."

upon him.

eulogium, as well as in condemnation, and
equally frank in the declaration of both, he
will praise a man before his face in such a
way as to make him blush, and will assert

ridiculing the object which excited it. During the whole of the play he is either repeating the lines which it is the actor's task to deliver, or humming an air in a different

it.

moved."

tion."

key to that in which the performer is sing-painting may ultimately prove a means of and Child, the Trinity and St. John, ing it. contributing to advance the arts of his- were to be represented. The King, the. Volsange is in all respects a man who torical colouring and design. We have, Nobility and Clergy, were its chief pahas been accustomed to the very best society, and yet he has contracted habits for therefore, felt it not out of season, to trons; and a painted window was deemed which his friends with justice reprove him. offer some remarks, at present, on this a princely gift to the richest Church or He affects to speak a foreign language in the interesting branch of ornamental paint- Monastery. Compared with the other modes of painting then attempted, its presence of females who do not understand ing. The most authentic records and earliest manifest mechanical Whilst at dinner, he declaims and gessuperiority in ticulates with a spoon or a fork in his hand, existing specimens, furnish evidence, that beauty, conferred upon it a claim to and usually leaves some traces of his elo- painting in distemper and fresco, on superior distinction. The transparency quence on the dress of those who are unfor- glass and in oil, were each, in their in- of the substance, on which the objects tunate enough to sit near him. I know one or two ladies who absolutely detest him, be- fancy, alike, employed in the service of were painted, and the advantageous cause he takes snuff when at table, and makes Religion. They derived, also, in their circumstance that the picture formed the use of his tooth-pick before the cloth is re- subsequent stages of advancement, their medium, through which the light was chief encouragement from the same admitted, gave a novel and astonishing "In the performance of many a generous source. The three former modes were brilliancy to the tints. This lustre, though action, M. de Volsange has discovered the in use before that age, which comprehends at first combined with the extreme of secret of rendering himself insupportable to the revival of painting and sculpture in meagre incorrectness and barbarous dethose whom he obliges, and has oftener than once driven noble hearts into ingrati- Italy. The crude attempts at delinea- sign, was peculiarly adapted to strike the tude. The publicity which he gives to the tion, practised seven hundred years after eye. The uncultivated taste of the times, distresses of his friends, is always the condi- the subversion of the Western Empire, possessing no superior standard of comtion on which he does them an act of ser- must have been utterly unworthy of parison, beheld with admiration the stiff, vice. He obstinately refuses to accept either notice, if we reason from the authority of angular and inanimate forms, which chacompensation or acknowledgment for the gratitude which he imposes on you, and I History, which has characterised that racterised the uncouth essays of their would at all times rather be his debtor than period as an era of barbarism, equally designers. Brightness of colour atoned one on whom he has conferred an obliga-unilluminated by letters and the arts. for every other deficiency; and their The painters of the 11th century, if subjects, being generally chosen from "This is indeed, Madam, the portrait of a painters they could be called, were igno- sacred history, were calculated to excite very disagreeable person, and I cannot now rant of anatomy, perspective, and chiaro- the awe and sympathy of religious Enthufeel astonished at the dislike you have ex- scuro, of proportion, expression and cha-siasm. The Infant Christ beaming irrapressed of him. But during my visits here, racter. If we may judge from circum-diation, and born to suffer for the reI frequently met a M. de Nevilette, who is stances, even this class of mechanical demption of man; the Crucifixion of the generally described as a man not to be trusted, and who among other peccadillos is practitioners had become extinct about Divine Redeemer on Mount Calvary : said to have killed his best friend in a duel, the middle of the 13th century; and the the Saviour, rising from the Sepulchre overwhelmed a charming woman with mi- Grand Duke of Florence was necessi- triumphant over Sin and Death, and assery, and dishonorably betrayed his bene- tated to invite some Greek painters to cending, in glory, to the bosom of the factor. His gaiety, which is so highly ex-repair the decayed paintings in the Eternal; or Jehovah, coming in the tolled, is nothing but a continued strain of churches of that city. Cimabue, their clouds, in the fulness of his Majesty and trifling, and the air of bon-ton which he enpupil, in whose performances painting Omuipotence, to judge the nations of the deavours to assume, will never serve to disguise his abandoned principles: yet revived, and who has been thence termed earth; became objects of more deep and Nevilette is received into all the elegant the Father of Painting in Italy, was born mysterious impression, when emblazoned society where Volsange is shunned! The in 1240; and King John, in whose reign, on the lofty windows of a Gothic church reason is obvious, the one is merely a base according to Aubrey and Dugdale, the or convent. The story and mode of and the other is insupportable." first glass-painting was executed in Eng-delineation, were in accord with the land, died in 1218, twenty-two years spirit of the age and the style of their before the birth of Cimabue. The writers sacred architecture. The splendid hues above mentioned founded their opinion formed a singular contrast to the gloomy Much contempt has been excited by on the earliest record, or date, on those grandeur of its shadowy recesses; the spurious and perishable imitations of specimens, which fell under their inspec- Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted glass-painting, which have been imported tion; and their assertion may admit of from France, within these two or three some latitude, as the art was, probably, The pealing anthem swell'd the voice of praise." years, with all the tricks of extravagant in use here some time before it was in- The changes of the day and season varied quackery and puffing in the newspapers. cidentally noticed in our records, or the effect, and gave a new aspect to the They have been justly condemned as casually marked with a date by any ar- objects of illumination. The rays of the deceptions; but even if they had been tist. It was first introduced into England sun at noon, streaming through the stained as durable and excellent as the works of from Germany or the Low Countries, glass, communicated its vivid tinge to our native and resident artists, we con- where it had been for some time much in the rude effigies in marble and heraldic ceive that the latter are justly entitled vogue; but the date of its introduction distinctions, with which the tombs and to a preference. A view of Backler's is altogether uncertain. The earliest monuments were ornamented. The apgrand work, the painted window for the ascertained date on glass-painting in this proach of evening deepened this visionary Duke of Norfolk, and the various taste- country is particularised by Stowe, in an tone, to which night added an indescribful performances now exhibiting by the order issued in the reign of Henry the able solemnity. The moon, in a cloudPearsons; with some of the productions 3rd, for making and painting the glass less sky, shedding her beams through the of the late ingenious artist, Mr. Hand, windows in the Chapel of St. John in the painted glass, on the dim shrines and show that the encouragement of glass-Tower, on which the figures of the Virgin fugitive memorials of the dead, in the

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FINE ARTS.

PAINTING ON GLASS.

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immense nave of a church, formed an genious art, in this country, much must to his own band. It is certain that Lucas imposing combination with the glimmer- ever remain in obscurity. Many eminent Jacobs, his rival and friendly corresponing altars of the Deity and a martyrdom Writers have in vain endeavoured to dent, painted with great brilliancy and or mournful story of the Passion, vividly trace the names of the Architects who beauty on glass, and, when Albert Ďurer depicted in an elevated compartment of flourished in Italy, Germany, and France, travelled into Holland, he was received by the window. The whole acquired a immediately after the revival of Architec- Lucas with much cordiality and affecFew traces of the early English tion. This artist, who is better known nameless character from the stillness of ture.

passage:

"In such a place as this, at such an hour,
If aught of ancestry can be believed,
Descending Angels have conversed with

Man,

an hour, broken only by the echoes of a Architects have escaped oblivion. Only by the name of Lucas Von Leyden, was solitary foot-fall, or the melancholy cry a few of the contemporaries, disciples, born at Leyden in 1494. He painted of the birds of night. Even an ordinary and early successors of Cimabue, who with equal spirit and delicacy in oil and mind might well be impressed with a painted in oil and fresco, are now known. distemper, in the taste of his time; ensentiment similar to that in the following It is, therefore, less surprising that so graved a multitude of prints from his own very few of the English Glass-painters designs, and rose to the first class among from the 12th to the 15th century are on those termed the little masters, from the Jodocus record. The wars made upon pictures minute size of their works. and painted glass in the time of Henry Amman, born at Zarich in 1539, po3the 8th, Edward and Elizabeth, and by sessed purer conceptions of form and And told the secrets of the world unknown!" the puritans under Cromwell, involved the character; a richer vein of fancy and an Walpole, who, in the eighteenth century, names of the artists and their works in Italian taste in composition. He enwas fully sensible of the extraordinary one promiscuous ruin. In the earliest graved an abundance of his own designs sensations produced by a gothic cathedral, has enumerated the "painted win-Flanders, Germany, and Switzerland, we on glass with "great brilliancy." About dral, has enumerated the "painted win-existing notices of glass painting in on wood; etched on copper, and painted dows" among its most impressive ma- find the most eminent painters in distem- the year 1560, John Goltzius, fattier of chinery. In the dark ages, when the per, fresco, and oil, were also painters on Henry Goltzius, the celebrated engraver, mind was more open to notions of preter-glass, or employed to design subjects for was in fair repute as a designer and natural agency, and the imagination less under the control of reflection, the effect the glass-painters. After the invention painter in oil and on glass, at Mulbrech, under the control of reflection, the effect of engraving on wood and copper, these near Venlo, where his son Henry was of such a scene as that which I have last arts with painting in oil and glass-paint- born. At the same period, Dirk and adverted to, must have been incalculable. ing, were frequently practised by the same Wouter Crabeth, brothers and natives of A monk or "pale-eyed virgin," at their oraisons, or even a steel-clad knight of person. John Holbein, the best German Holland, obtained a distinguished repupainter of his time, practised painting tation as designers and painters on glass. the cross, pacing the cold stone floor at in oil, and on glass, and engraving on Their most admired performances are the midnight, in performance of his vow, wood, about the year 1490, at Augsburgh. sacred histories on the windows of the and impressed with the prevailing belief He afterwards removed to Basil, where his great church of St. John the Baptist, in that the spirits of the deceased were son, the celebrated HANS HOLBEIN, was their native city of Gouda. These beaunightly permitted to revisit the abodes of born. The latter painted history and tiful windows were the gifts of the King the living, might well raise their eyes to portraits with equal excellence in oil and of Spain; Margaret of Austria, Duchess the lofty casement in apprehension that distemper, and on glass. He also drew of Parma, and Governess of the Low some sainted figure would descend from designs for the glass-painters and en- Countries; of William the First, Prince its station on the glass, and reveal a mesgraved on wood, in which style his prints of Orange; the States; Lords; and senger from another world. We may are executed with a taste and spirit never Chief Cities of Holland. Wouter Crapresume that circumstances so fraught surpassed by any other artist. Marten beth is stated to have studied design in with images of pathos, terror and subSchoen, a native of Culmbach, who died France and Italy. The secret of their limity, were not lost upon the poets, at in 1486, and Lucas Cranach, the old, art was then highly coveted, on account a period when that enemy to genius, a born at Cranach in Westphalia, in 1470, of the very high prices paid for paintings cold, trading and malignant criticism had were both eminent painters and engravers on glass; and so fearful were these ar no power over the feelings. In the feudal ages, while the Spirit of civil dis-according to the taste of their age and tists of their improvements in the process country. They not only designed for being discovered, that one brother would cord ravaged the vicinity with fire and the painters on glass, but the constant ef- not permit the other to see him at work; sword, literature was cherished in mo- fort to keep up the brightness of the prim- and Wouter covered up his work as soon nastic seclusion, and the Muses not un-itive virgin colours, in their oil pictures, as Dirk came into the apartment where frequently wove their fairest garlands indicates an imitation of the early paint- he painted. Adrian de Vries painted beneath the painted window of a cloyster. At a later period, when the force of these ing on glass, and affords a fair presump-some windows in this church from his tion that they also followed the profession own designs; and some from the designs impressions was weakened, Milton ex- of painting on glass in conjunction with of Joachim Uytenwael, whose composiperienced the fitness of so sacred a haunt that of painting in oil and engraving. tions in the manner of Cornelius Cornelitz for inspiration. He has left this beauti-The same sparkling lustre in the oil co- of Haerlem, are so well known by the ful acknowledgment, in his "Il Pen-lours of the younger Cranach and of Al-prints of William Van Swanenburgh.

seroso."

if

"But let my due feet never fail ver
To walk the studious cloyster's pale.
And love the high-embowed roof,
With antique pillars massy proof,
And storied windows richly dight,
Casting a dim religious light:'

bert Durer of Nurembergh, has fur-William Tibaut also painted several uished reasonable grounds for a similar of the windows from his own designs; presumption. The designs of the latter, and Dirk Van Zyl painted a few from which are occasionally found on ancient the designs of Lambert Van Oordt, fapainted glass imported into o this country, ther of Adam Van Oordt, the master of exhibit the same spirit as his engravings Rubens. Cornelius Kussens, Cornelius Of the origin and progress of this in- and oil pictures, and have been attributed Clock and Nicolas Johnson and Janssen,

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THE DRAMA.

THE ITALIAN OPERA.HIPOJATI
KING'S THEATRE.

were also employed to paint windows in with his subject; Egysthus has presented this venerable edifice, which contained Clytemnestra with a poignard to assassinate seventy-two altars, and was visited by Agamemnon in the palace of Argos. The victim is separated from the murderers by a travellers as one of the most important crimson curtain, through which the light of The Opera, even at this advanced period of objects in that city. Christopher Piera lamp, which burns behind, exhibits them the season, still retains all its wonted attrac son, a painter and poet of that age, to the affrighted eye. The wife of Agamem- tion, and Don Giovanni is repeated again and painted copies of the windows on sheets non staggers, but Egysthus supports her, again without the slightest diminution in its of vellum, and they were deposited in and pushes her forward to the commission success or effect. It has been justly observed the Church Warden's Chamber to be ex- of the murder. This scene, which is managed that where talent like that of FODOR, CAMhibited to all curious strangers. with great skill and ingenuity, leaves a deep PORESE, HUGHES, AMBROGETTI, and NALDI impression on the minds of all who behold is so happily combined, aided by the most complete orchestra in Europe, it is not a Near this beautiful composition, and with-matter of wonder that Don Giovanni should out suffering at all by its approximation, is be so admired. The extraordinary success placed the St. Stephen, by M. Abel Pujol, of the Opera has in some degree tended to The artist has chosen the moment when the lessen that of the Ballet, though in every Saint exclaims: "Behold, I see the Heavens respect as strong as in any former season. A new Ballet entitled Les Déguisements opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God."-The Jews, transported Amoureur, was performed for the third with anger against the venerable Deacon, time on Tuesday last, when it was rather flatprepare to stone him, but the expression of teringly received. Although formed of light his countenance announces that his soul has materials, it evidently possesses considerquitted the earth, and already enjoys its able merit. MILANIE, the very acme of exmerited reward. This picture, which was cellence, the type of every perfection necespainted by order of the Prefect of the Seine sary to figure, to the imagination all that is for a church in Paris, is a very fine produc- graceful and elegant, acquitted herself, in tion of this young artist; his firm touch, the little she had to do, in a manner exceedhis broad manner, and vigorous pencil, prove ing all her former efforts. BAPTISTE and his his style to have been formed on the great wife are also eminently conspicuous for the models of antiquity, and that he will one animated taste they display in the parts day or other be an ornament to the school allotted them. Monsieur and Madame LEON the BYRNES and NARCISSE, fill up the other in which he makes so rapid a progress. principal characters in the piece highly creditable to themselves.

Abraham Von Diepenbeke, a celebrated historical painter on glass, was born at Bois le Duc in 1607. He travelled to Italy, practised his art there and improved his taste in design. On his return to his own country, he placed himself, as a student, in the school of Rubens, applied to oil painting, and became one of his most celebrated disciples. His paintings on glass are of exquisite beauty and high value. His admirable designs for the engravers are well known to classical collectors and no historical painter ought to be without them. Fuseli states that those which he executed "for the Bellerophon, the Orpheus, the Dioscuri, the Leander, the Ixion, Tantalus, and Sysyphus, have never been excelled by the conceptions of the best masters of the best schools." Rubens was so struck The pathetic scene of the Levite of by the vigorous effect of his paintings on Ephraim, who, leaving the house of his host at the break of day, finds his beloved wife glass, that he took lessons from his scho-stretched lifeless on the ground, is selected lar and executed some pictures in that from the Holy Scripture, and is painted by Pearson, the glass-painter, M. Couder, a young Provençal, full of the remembers in BARRY's possession the fire of enthusiasm. This picture, which is house. A Mr. Pearman from the Theatre head of an apostle as large as life, by said to be his first, is, in the opinion of the Rubens, painted with wonderful force of best judges, one of those in which the great-Royal, Bath, made his first appearance on the London Stage, in the part of Prince Or. It is probable est talent is displayed. The Cardinal de Richelieu presenting Pous-lando. This gentleman possesses requisites that Gerard Douw acquired some depth sin to Louis XIII. in the presence of Queen and an execution of much promise; and with of effect from this branch of the arts, Anne of Austria, the mother of Louis XIV, as he commenced his studies in painting by M. Ansiaur, is a picture which deserves under Kouwhoorn, a painter on glass, great praise for its truth, its colouring, its who flourished at Leyden in the year freshness, and above all for the harmony

manner.

colour and character.

1630.

These observations on early glasspainting abroad, lead back to the progress of this interesting art in England, which I shall offer some notices in upon a future communication. W. C.

which its possesses.

PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED
SOCIETIES.

OXFORD. The following Fellowships have
been conferred by election: Revds. D. Evans,
M. A. Exeter; M. Banks, Wadham; Messrs.
W. L. Davies, St. John's; J. Young, B. A.
W. H. Burton, and R. B. Paul, Exeter.

Rev. T. Boys, B. D. admitted D. D. Grand
Compounder; Rev. J. Williams. M. A. Fellow
of Exeter, admitted Pro-Proctor, vice Rev.
W. E. Hony, M. A.

French Exhibition at the Salon. The rich collection of Pictures which at present adorns the walls of the Salon at Paris, renders the exhibition of the present year far superior to any that has preceded it. On a former occasion we promised to make The number of Regents in the last act was 125. CAMBRIDGE. The Commencement took our readers acquainted with those pictures which chiefly attract the attention of Con-place on Tuesday the 1st of July, when the noisseurs. Our limits will not admit of our first Oration Prize on Trinity was adjudged to entering into a detailed account of every The Norrisian Prize for the present year has work possessing claims to admiration: we shall therefore confine ourselves to a brief been adjudged to the Rev. J. C. Franks, Scholar, Trinity, "On the Internal Evidence of the notice of such as are distinguished for pre-genuineness and authenticity of the Gospels." The Rev. Ch. Ingle, M. A. Trinity, is elected M. Guerin's picture of Clytemnestra, is Fellow of St. Peter's. one of those, which, for grandeur and beauty, The Graduations were very numerous; of arrest the attention of the astonished specta-D. D. 2: D. C. L. 1; M.D. 2; M. B. 2; B. C. tor. Eschylus has furnished the painter L. 3; M. A. 120; B.A. S., &c. &c. &c.

eminent merit.

Charles, 2d son of the late R. B. Sheridan.

NEW THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH
OPERA.

On last Monday night, the Ballet Divertisement, Sport after Rain, the Cabinet, and Don Juan, were the entertainments at this

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judicious study, is likely to be a favorite of the public. His voice is a sweet tenor; his falsetto good; his lower tones clear and me lodious. His song of "When away from my beautiful Maid," was encored; and he received much deserved applause in the course of the evening. Our gratification from his performance, was not lessened by our meeting him, for the first time, in this Theatre. The introduction of this vocal performer and of Miss Miriam H. Buggins, to the London Stage, are additional instances of the public advantages of an English Opera. We have, in common with every native of the realm, on public grounds, an interest in the encouragement of native genius; and we are glad to see that the Manager has manifested a liberal sense of his own interest and public duty, by producing sterling native attractions for a British audience. We conceive that this will be much more likely to draw company and to please the good sense and good taste of the public than the cloying repetition of national clap-traps with which the dialogue of the Cabinet is so thickly interlarded. Mr. Bartley performed Peter without laboured pretension, but with a good deal of plain, home-spun nature. Mr. Isaacs, in the songs of Lorenzo, was justly applauded.