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we cannot afford to follow entirely the opened a box of dried meat and sour crout observations, with 2 barometers, 2 theradvice to the Reviewers, by copying at prepared in St. Petersburgh. The latter was mometers, 1 sixthernometer, 1 hygrometer, length the parts on which we found the half spoiled and the meat half mouldy, but 1 aerometer, &c. &c. are so carefully made sentiments we have delivered: but we ing to the directions, which though not quite answer for them; and it gives me great pleaeatable; of both a soup was prepared accord-by me and my officers and pilots, that I can will so far justify our verdict, both in disgusting to the taste, was yet very dis- sure that I have made my people so perfect. praise and blame, as to refer to page 184, agreeable. The physician said that it was Wormskiold remains for many reasons in where we are nastily told, in a descrip- unwholesome. To day on the other hand Kamtschatka. I am very much satisfied tion of sea nausea, that "Momus might we opened a tin box with mutton prepared with Chamisso; he seems to be well skilled have discovered an easier way to see in England, which was found so good that in his branch, and is a very diligent worka man's inside, than by placing a window an epicure would have enjoyed it, and it was man. D. Eschholz is loved by all of us and in his breast. He needed only to have therefore delicious to us who had not tasted deserves it. The painter Choris does every thing in his power. We hoped to find here any thing fresh for so long a time. taken a salt-water trip in a packet-boat:" On the 3rd of June we caught a land bird, some letters from our friends at home, but to page 200, for a sweet contrast, which remained with us some hours and ate the post has not arrived at all this year. I "Over what place, thought I, does the with great appetite some seeds which we hope to be more fortunate on my return in moon hang to your eye, my dearest friend? offered him. The colour of the water September 1817. I prefer Kamtschatka to To me it hung over the left bank of the changed to-day very considerably, and be the island of Unalaschka, because one has Elbe. Close above the moon was a huge came of so dark green and muddy, that I only fresh fish in the latter, which are no volume of deep black cloud, while a very 100 fathoms there was no bottom to be straits; but here I get daily fresh meat, fish, supposed a sandbank to be near, but with great refreshment after a voyage to Behring's thin fillet crossed the middle of the orb, found. The temperature of the water was also and tscheremsche (a kind of leek); on my as narrow, and thin, aud black as a rib-ascertained to be 24° colder; a sure sign that voyage from Chili to this place I have not bon of crape. The long trembling road the depth had decreased very considerably, had one man sick, and we are at present all of moonlight, which lay on the water, and and that we were not far from land. A quite well. I have had some barrels of reached to the stern of our vessel, glim-thick fog hindered me from discovering it. spruce beer brewed here for our use while mered dimly and obscurely"-And again, its usual colour. I hope to examine this are poured into each barrel, it will keep very During the night the water had changed to in Behring's straits: if a few glasses of rum page 202,"An instinctive taste teaches meu to build their churches, in flat of Jume we had a dreadful storm. On the after to-morrow.-July 10th, 1816. place more nearly next year. On the 13th long. I think to depart from here the day countries, with spire steeples, which, 18th the thick fog suddenly cleared up, and We understand that the first part of as they cannot be referred to any other the coast of Kamtschatka lay before us, Lieutenant Kotzebue's Journal has not been yet object, point as with silent finger to still wrapt in the gloom of winter. From received. the sky and stars; and sometimes, when the summits of the mountains to the shore they reflect the brazen light of a rich every thing was covered with snow, and even though rainy sun-set, appear like a pyra- green. We afterwards heard that the winter the first account of his adventures, in letabout the harbour there was not the least mid of flame burning heavenward." At had lasted longer this year than usual. Since page 241, narrating an interview with the Nadescha has been here, there have been chatka, which have lately been received in Klopstock, it is said, " He told us that made many useful alterations, which are Copenhagen, dated the 22nd of July, 1816. his first ode was fifty years older than solely owing to Lieutenant Rudakoff, who On the 28th of December, 1815, they left St. his last. I considered him as the vene- has governed Kamtschatka for these three Catharine in the Brazils, soon passed the mouth" rable father of German poetry ; years. We were still in the harbour when of the La Plata, doubled Cape Horn, and argood man; as a Christian; seventy-four house. Even this sight in Kamtschatka Talcacuana (Talcaquano) in Chili, where, as the we saw a telegraph at work upon the light-rived safe, on the 13th of February, 1816, at years old; with legs enormously swoln; surprised us, but our astonishment was much above journal shows, they staid till the 8th of yet active, lively, cheerful, and kind and greater when we saw the effect of the tele- March, and then sailed to Kamtschatka, where communicative." Klopstock began the graph, for the Rurik was scarcely in Awat- they arrived on the 19th of June; in the last Messiah when he was seventeen, and de- scha-Bay, when a great boat, with an an- part of their voyage they only landed twice, voted three entire years to the plan with-chor, a cable, fresh meat, and fish, came to land. As the ship was to go from Kamtschatka out composing a single line. He wrote cond. Both towed us in, there being no have less to discover than the mariner, Lientemeet us, which was soon followed by a se- to Behring's straits, where the naturalist would the three first cantos in measured prose; wind, while we boiled the fine fish, and nant Wormskiold, whose researches, by permisbut, dissatisfied with this, changed his broiled the meat at our case. This excellent sion of Count Romanzoff, were to be indepenmanner and composed in hexameters. regulation is for every ship that arrives. dent of the expedition, left it, after having We are glad that these passages in Rudakoff sent us daily fresh meat, fish, and taken a friendly leave of Lieutenant von Kotcline the balance in favour of Mr. Cole- vegetables. In all our labours he always zebue and his fellow-travellers. Lieutenant ridge. One volume expunged, --the other helped us with ten or more men. As the Wormskiold's intention was to go, if possible, would be highly instructive and enterRurik had to be laid on the side in order to on board an American ship, to the Sandwich taining; but, as there are two, we must aged in many places, he collected all his tance from the continent and of their extraor repair the copper sheathing, which was da- Islands, which, both on account of their dis repeat our astonishment that the extremes people together, and thus we soon finished dinary high mountains, are very interesting. He of what is agreeable and disgusting can this work, which would otherwise have lasted to return home by the way of China. On the wishes to stay there about half a year, and then be so intimately blended by the same so long. Nay he even added to my small voyage with the expedition, he has already colmind. crew, for my voyage to Behring's straits, six lected many natural productions, some of which of his best sailors, who have been used from are new; he has also constantly continued his navigator OTTO VON KOTZEBUE, sent to his the greatest service to me. EXTRACT from the Journal of the Circum-called Baidars, and who will therefore be of well on the surface as at different depths, and their youth to the management of the boats observations on the temperature of the sea, as Father. Communicated by the latter. I received also on the course of the currents: when these observations are one day made public, they may be an interesting supplement to Humboldt's experiments on the same subject.

(Concluded.)

as a

Kamtschatka, 10th July, 1816. On the 29th of May, when we passed for the second time the tropic of cancer, I

from the American Company a six-oared
Baidar. All the maps and drawings made
this year, with a quantity of seeds which we
have gathered at the places where we have
been, I sent to Count Romanzoff; and the

'Lieutenant Wormskiold, a Dane, has sent ters from St. Peter and St. Paul in Kamts

viz. on Romanzoff's Island, and on Easter Is

OF AUGUSTUS VON KOTZEBUF.

smiled and was silent.

the

eye

The

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. [excited. In the best sense of the word,) On Mr. OGILVIE as a Lecturer on Orahe is singularly plausible. We have been tory, we are willing to found all the hope LITERARY HOAX for these thousand years deploring the that can be laid on peculiar talent and Some years ago, my friend Mr. Wey-fallen glory of Eloquence. Here this man peculiar experience, on strong sensibility land, now Vice President at Weimar, erects his standard, and professes his to oratorical effect, and on extensive published a collection of short travels, faith that Eloquence has only to be called knowledge of the history of his science. (or rather extracts of travels) and having on to come forth; that its shapes exist He must render essential service by a requested a contribution from me, I fur- thick and living round us, though they course of lectures strictly instructive. nished the description of a Chinese enter- exist in obscurity; that they may be A large department of Oratory has been tainment, which was inserted under the arrayed with more power, beauty, and abandoned to the silent traversing of title of a "Fragment from the MS. of the originality from the great armoury of mere scholarship. Ten thousand men, Travels of Tschudrin." I took this de- modern knowledge, than from the meagre even in England, pronounce the name of scription from Du Halde, and merely and casual stores of ancient philosophy; Demosthenes without the humblest knowsubstituted for the tiresome prolixity of that if the mastery of Eloquence is to be ledge of his actual style. Grandeur and that author, a more concise and animated looked for upon earth, it must be found boldness, bursts of thunder and flashes description. A short time afterwards, in the infinite variety, polish and splen- of consuming brightness, make up the received letters from several booksellers, dour of the weapons put into its hands vagueness of their conception; the Greek even some French, who urgently called by the deeper agitation of modern life, orator is to such, useless as an example. upon me to translate the whole of the subtler policies of modern govern- He is an idol wrapped in incense, and Tschudrin's Travels, at which they were ment, and the unceasing accumulation of not a man; the dead deification of a eager to catch as a promising specula- discoveries in the kingdoms of mind and splendid image, not the emblem of the livtion: I smiled and was silent. Now the matter, which come rushing on us in ing genius which may be a model for life. Literary Gazette of Jena reviewed Wey-light, from hour to hour, like the rays There must be a high interest and a new land's collection, highly praised my frag- from newly found constellations, all knowledge to the general mind in seeing ment, and even added, that the peculiari- splendour and magnificence, and secrets this glorious intellect in action. ties of the Chinese character might be of supernatural grandeur to us, where, to history of his troubled time might be better learned from it than from of the Greek, all was void dark-brought to throw the full relief round his many a ponderous account written by the Jesuits; ness, or glittering confusion. In his vi- splendours. His power of meeting oband it was precisely from a Jesuit that sion, Ancient Eloquence stands in the form jections, of throwing his mass of learning I had taken mine. Again, therefore, I and qualities of our naked nature, a bold like the sword of Brennus into the doubtand muscular shape, unenfeebled by the ful scale, of concentrating an argument Long after this, my fragment (still sup- affectations of later life, and subduing in a word, of heaping blow upon blow posed genuine) was inserted in the Biblio- the earth, but subduing it like the first unwearied and unmitigated, till the pothèque Britannique; from this, at a later man, by the palpable application of un-pular mind flamed and shaped itself unperiod, it passed into the Giornale Enci- disguised and rude vigour, by "the der the vigour of his genius, his grandeur clopedico di Napoli; from which again, sweat of its brow." The energy which of appeal to the stirrers of the heart, to for July, 1816, the Biblioteca Italiana has is given to move the mind in our later the immortal protectors of his country, given an extract. Perhaps the Pseudo- and nobler world, descends before him to its heroes long risen to their presence, Tschudrin may have appeared in other with a more unearthly aspect, a being of to the tombs and the temples, and the journals which I have not seen. state and glory, but to be acknowledged elements that had heard the shouts of In order to put an end to the matter, in its full majesty only by the higher Athenian victory, to the dust newly conI hereby declare that no such traveller orders of intelligence, an angelic nature, secrated by the remains of her matchless ever existed, and that it was only to furnish deriving its power from every region of warriors;-the soul of his eloquence, its my friend a little contribution for the the loftier intellectual Creation, from the sincerity, his hallowed honour for Athens, first volume of his collection, that I fell Imagination, from the Fancy, from the bis high determination to save her, if that upon the idea of warming up the very mysteries of Science, and from the lights redemption was to be among the miracles well known Du Halde in another sauce. of Religion. However this conception of patriotism, his standing forth before KOTZEBUE. may be justified in the Lecturer's pecu- Greece and Mankind to plead her cause liar sense, for in the general view there with the sublime consciousness that he can be no doubt that modern Oratory rose above men only to attract the surer falls formidably short of the triumphs of vindictiveness of power destined to the ancient time, we are gratified in see- overcome, all must take their place in Mr. OGILVIE's discourse on Saturday ing him turn to his distinct province. the character which would give the nowas on Oratory. It was preliminary to He has hitherto, in some measure, vi- blest orator of the noblest age. For a more distinct examination into the dif- brated between the teacher of Eloquence this there must be much quotation, much ferent orders of public speaking, and and the teacher of Morals. He must be reference to the habits of the day, much thus treated rather of the spirit of elo- content with a single supremacy; the critical examination of phrase. The total quence than of its forms. The views of triumphs of the school cannot be the absence of amplification, the graceful texthis Lecturer have the peculiarity that triumphs of the pulpit. The morals ture of language, the nervous and earnest always attends the speculations of a vi- of a people must be left to the Clergy tone of truth, belong to all the higher fraggorous mind ;--they are perfectly fearless of the people. Those gigantic and over-ments of the Greek Oratory which have of assailing the received opinions, their whelming habits of vice that disfigure descended to us; it might be the business originality is fortified by powerful reason- the earth, are not to be subdued by the of the Lecturer to mark the eminence of ings, and where conviction does not in-nature from which they sprang the Demosthenes in all those master features, stantly follow, at least doubt is strongly Titans must be met by fire from above. and from his reliques to prescribe the

ARTS AND SCIENCES.

THE ROSTRUM.

worship of a loftier style than that to No matter whether life or death;
which we have bowed down in later He pours his pestilential breath;
times.
And with this worse than doctor's dose,
The same method might be Meant for your ear, assaults your nose.
adopted through all the genealogy of Elo-This cursed circumstantial man
quence. The causes and evils of the Tells you the story of a fan,
Roman style, might illustrate the decay
of popular speaking in the classic nations.
The discovery of the original principles
might be used for the renovation of the
present decline.
The languor of the
Pulpit, the quaintness of the Bar, and the
common-place of the Legislature, might
take their place among his inquiries.
Illustrations from speeches, from the
scattered opinions of celebrated speakers,
from the nature of their impression on
the general mind, might relieve the weight
of the didactic; the circumstances which
made wit popular in one age and reasoning
in another, which with our forefathers
found the flowers of Oratory in Scriptural
állusion, and with us solicited them in
the habits of vulgar life, belong to the
most curious criticism. The subject is
boundless, the service may tend to throw
open the barriers of human power;
and the man who could restore among
us, that Eloquence which implied the
manliest cultivation of the understanding
and the heart, would be no slight bene-
factor to the country. Why should not
an express Institution for Oratorical study
be formed in England?

Gives you the shop where it was bought ;
Describes the sticks, how they were wrought;
And where the cheapest mounts are made:
Shows you the profits of the trade,
And when you think the story's done,
You find it is but just begun.
For then comes in the General,
Relations, pedigree, and all;
And to the farthest generation,
With neither respite, pause nor check,
You keep your miserable station;
Though at the hazard of your neck.
Nor shrinks he at the near approach
Of porter's load, or horse, or coach;
His conversation's highest reach
And all his proofs are nothing more
Still breaks thro' every part of speech;
Than just that two and two make four.
I've passed the chimney-sweeper's brush,
The drayman's cart, and all the rush
And mischiefs of a crowded street;
Yet patient I would rather meet,
Than thus by adverse fate be flung
Upon the pest of such a tongue.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

Δημητρίου Κωνσταντίνου,

Εἰς τὰ ἐν τῷ Μουσείῳ Βρεταννίκῳ συντηρούμενα ἀγάλο
ματα, ἐπίγραμμα.

̔Ελλὰς ἐμὴ, πολεμοῖσι καταφθιμένη πτολίπορθοις,
Χαῖρε, καὶ ἐν φέρετρῳ τοῖσι τέκεσσι φίλη.
Σώμα τεὸν θνητὸν πόλεμοι ἐδύναντ ̓ ἀπόλεσσαι
Αθανάτον ψυχὴν οὐκ ὀλέσαι δυνατόν.
Ζήσεται ἀθανάτοισιν ἀεὶ ἐπέεσσιν Όμηρος
Φείδιου ἔμψυχοις πνεῦμ ̓ ἔτ ̓ ἔνεστι λίθοις.
Ἐν Λονδίνῳ τῇ κι' 'Ιουλίου.
PARAPHRASE.
Epigram on the Statues in the British Museum,
by Demetrius Constantinus.

Hail Greece! my loved, my native land,
The ruthless desolate thy strand:

In death dear to thy filial band!

Thy Mortal part the foe might spoil:

The Immortal mocked his barbarous toil!

And till of humankind is none,

In deathless verse shall Homer live;
And Phidias' spirit shall survive
In every breathing stone.

STREET TALKERS,

A CHARACTER.

W. J.

Oh! save me from the birdlime fingers
Of him who in his story lingers;
Who will not take your passing greet,
Though in the crowded way you meet,
Who fastens on your coat or button;
No matter what the course you're put on :
Or be your errand death or life,
To fetch the doctor for your wife,

FROM PETRARCA.

VOL. II. SONNET 11.

D-y.

When warbling birds in plaintive accents sing,
Or gentle zephyrs whisper through the grove,
Or through the verdant plain some crystal spring
Rolls murmuring soft, and melts the soul to

love;

Where'er I sit and write what love inspires,
I see that maid divine, her voice I hear,

Who snatch'd, alas! from earth, in heav'n res-
pires,

And thus in louder accents charms my ear:
"Ah, why untimely does consuming woe

Prey on thy life? why these incessant sighs?
Why do those streams of useless sorrow flow?
For me lament no more: for when my eyes
Appear'd to close, they saw the light of Heav'n,
And seeming death eternal life has giv❜n.”
H. E. L.

ing the interests of the Fine Arts, we shall ever be anxious to prove that our labours tend to the same end, that we truly appreciate the liberality which composes these walls for a public use with invaluable private property; and that, whether we can have the pleasure of pointing out beauties or are compelled by justice to animadvert on defects, it shall ever be with the same honest intention of promoting as far as in us lies that object, dear alike to taste and patriotism, THE SUPREMACY OF THE BRITISH SCHOOL OF ARTS.

The collection now on the eve of being restored to the Chambers whence it was derived, is one of a very mixed nature. It boasts some admirable pictures; and it displays some which neither do honour to the painters, nor credit to the country. For in such matters it ought never to be forgotten that foreigners who visit our capital, invariably look to these exhibitions as the best which native genius can produce; and that on the careful examination of all works seeking admission, depends not only the character of individuals, but the national pretensions. In this point of view it must, we imagine, be acknowledged that the present is by no means a favourable representation of our cause. When we remember the works formerly exhibited in the same rooms, of Reynolds, of Wilson, of Hogarth, and of Gainsborough, we can scarcely look with patience, even on a few of the best of their productions in this gallery They afford little ground for asserting the extraordinary merits of any of these great painters, or the superiority of the British School, but must on the contrary depreciate both in public estimation. The specimens of Runciman, Hamilton, and one or two others, are also below the standard of these artists. Some have The gallery of pictures by deceased found place who had no title to the disBritish Artists, contributed by their pos- tinction, and others have either been sessors, and opened by this Institution in overlooked, or were not to be obtained, furtherance of their design to stimulate whose talents would have adorned the living Artists by example, to form a temple of departed genius. Specimens school by affording facility for observa- of Hudson, Cotes, Oliver, Richardson, tion, and to augment the funds for ho- &c. would have been curious and appro nourable and beneficial encouragement, priate, instead of several which might will close on the afternoon of Tuesday have been omitted, without injustice to next. Owing to circumstances which the parties. We are aware, however, cannot occur again, this exhibition has of the difficulty, the impossibility might not received the notice it deserved from be said, of procuring either the works of the Literary Gazette. The purpose it has in view, the principle of its composition, and the merit of many of its subjects constitute, even singly, an irresistible claim to attention; and, however we may occasionally hold opinions differing from the illustrious patrons of the British Institution, as to the best mode of consult

THE FINE ARTS.

THE BRITISH INSTITUTION.

all the old English masters or the best of those of whom something is obtained. A voluntary contribution caunot be expected to be quite complete; and instead of dwelling on what has not, we ought in candour to express our approbation of what has been done.

The catalogue gives a hundred and

tion.

tish school or style of painting is established, with greater variety, and in a much shorter Without prejudging the work, there is time than any other country can boast. We might here advert to the versatility of enough to warrant a few thoughts on the subject of Free Drawing Schools. It is suf- talent which annually appears, and which ficiently obvious that a general taste and may be said to embrace every style of paintknowledge of the Fine Arts, gives a supe-ing, from the familiar subjects of the Flemish riority to many articles of national industry; to the exalted efforts of the Italian school. but whether this is to be promoted by the But time and scarcity are wanting to give establishment of Free Drawing Schools, is them a value in the eyes of those who can see nothing but in the old masters, who, if not quite so certain. we may trust their history, were most of them neglected in their day.

sixty pictures by Barret, Bourgeois,blishing Free Drawing Schools, and on other and exertions of English artists, that a Br Brooking, Burnett, Copley, Cipriani, Dob- means of advancing the national industry, son, Dance, De Loutherbourg, Dupout, numbers, and greatness." Gainsborough, Gilpin, Hodges, Hone. Hoppner, Hogarth, Hamilton, Morland, Mortimer, Marlow, Opie, Peters, Rigaud, Reynolds, Runciman, Romney, Scott, Stubbs, Seymour, Webber, Wilson, Wheatley, and Wright; and two of the Cartoons, viz. " Elymas the Sorcerer," and "The death of Ananias," which, though they do not strictly belong to the There are already a much greater number plan of this Exhibition, afford always too facilities for acquiring a taste for the proof Artists than can find employment, and the To those who may be inclined to the prosublime a treat to leave room for ques-fession are daily increasing. The delusion fession from motives of interest, enough has tioning the propriety of their introduc- by which this profession is surrounded, has been said, and the moment commerce and led, and will continue to lead, many to cn-art attempt to unite, they are sure to pull difThe close of an exhibition is too late gage in the Arts, who might have employed ferent ways. Our print trade was lost more an hour to enter into the detail of criti- their talents more suitably as well as more from the cupidity of its dealers than from cism, even were we inclined to that task profitably. It is so easy to mistake a trans- the war or the state of the times. In the ient liking, for a permanent desire, espe- true spirit of the merchant, every subject, of after expressing the general opinion we cially in an art which has only to be seen to every kind, was put into requisition; a little have done. Holding that opinion, we be admired, that it is not surprising this good was made to cover a multitude of bad, have no desire to pursue it into its mi- should happen. till disgust and satiety sent them back upon nuter ramifications. There seems to be Our annual Exhibition (and we have now our hands, and the fashion went by. at least as much to avoid as to copy in had forty-six at the Royal Academy) helps Galleries and book prints gave a stimulus the features of this collection, though we to carry on the delusion; the avidity with to art, (in the latter it may revive) for the will not go the length of saying with which they are sought, and the cheapness embellishments to our publications are at Swift that it isby which the gratification of seeing them this time superior to any thing on the Conmay be purchased, brings crowds to admire, tinent; but here again is the interference of "To all an example, to no one a Pattern!" but few to buy: the funds of the Academy trade, and the bookseller must have his plate There are brilliant vestiges of Reynolds's are increased, and the Exhibitors have the engraved strong enough to take off a certain grace and colour; of Wright's Guebre honor of putting themselves to an expense number of impressions, by which the middle worship; of Morland's truth, and Gilpin's for the chance of being noticed and praised. teint is lost, and the black and white of the nobler talent in animal nature; of Mor- tendency to lead more into the same error: Free Drawing Schools can only have a subject only appears. An attempt was made to introduce painttimer's masterly drawing; and of Hobson's a smattering in art, would soon bend the in-ings into our churches, but this also failed. near approach to the excellence of Van- clination, and a profession instead of a trade In short, whether the art does not suit the dyke: Some idea may also be gained of would turn the scale, till experience taught country or the country the art, were we called Opie's force, and Romney's character, the deluded votary that he had indeed mis- upon to speak of a profession the least proand De Loutherbourg's spirit, but une-taken his ground. The false colouring, as well fitable, the least permanent, and of the qual to their full desert: most of the as the deception in art, would then appear, greatest mental exertion, we should say, remaining artists of high reputation suffer on in the precarious struggle, weighed down by (when perhaps it was too late) and he goes Painting! from their specimens, and Hogarth and disappointment, and finds a premature grave; Wilson seem to have peculiar injustice for in the attainment of that excellence, by done to their memory.

which alone there is any chance of success,
the application required is of no ordinary
kind. Indefatigable, though sedentary, he
must pursue his way through an accumula-
tion of rivalship and opposition; he must be

of fashion reaches it; it must stand aloof till Every pressure of the times, every caprice necessity is served, till other pleasures have taken their turns, and it must create the We are enabled to state that the exmeans by which it is supported. What then hibition of next season, (to succeed that have we to do with Free Drawing Schools! of living artists,) will consist of a mixed Does not every country-town possess men of selection from the works of the greatest capable of self-denial, and suffer privations; teach, and cultivate a taste for the art; and ability, who like missionaries endeavour to masters in the Italian, Spanish, Dutch, the pursuit of pleasure is incompatible with do they effect any thing adequate to the laand Flemish Schools. Of these a number the study of painting; neither must he be bour they employ? When master or miss has of fine subjects have reached this coun- deluded by the starts of genius to slumber produced a drawing to hang up, there ends try within the last three years; and we on his way, nor imagine, because Morland, the liking, and the practice! And there may certainly anticipate that this will be and some few others of extraordinary pow. one of the most interesting collections ers, united talent with dissipation, that it is ever concentrated into one focus for the in the power of all. benefit of the Arts, and the gratification of those who love and admire them.

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Very few are aware of the foundation that was laid in the early practice and education of Morland, and after all, his reach of art was but of the ordinary kind: a public house or a pig-stye, with all the magic of his pencil, can never rank with works of history or imagination.

let it end! unless we can produce a knowledge and love in those who have the means to encourage the profession, it were madness to think of creating artists, by holding out the incitement of Free Drawing Schools.

Again we must repeat, there are facilities enough in the country for all the purposes by which our ornamental manufactures may be rendered equal, if not superior, to those of our neighbours.

Of the artist much capital is not indeed But while we are deprecating the accumurequired, but he must give a greater equiva-lation of ordinary art and artists, it must not lent in time and health;-the most precious be imagined we do not set a value upon its of all things.

the little remuneration that follows the pro-
But, whatever the failure of individuals or
fession, it is highly creditable to the abilities

worth, or that we do not lament that a knowcultivation of taste, should ever be omitted ledge of the principles of fine art and the in any plan of liberal education; the scholar

FROM ENGLAND,

Thomas Barnes.
John Grove

and the gentleman should never be without
it. For only in the proportion of knowledge Charles E. Bacon
and discernment, can any proper encourage.
ment be given to what is excellent. We
should not then, (as Mr. Hope observes,)
see bustling mediocrity take the lead of
genius."

A monument would not then be a job, nor a picture be a contract.

Above all, it would not then be under the dominion of fashion,

Where oft the paper-maker's gaud,
Takes place of Poussin and of Claude;
Now Rembrants fill the drawing-room,
And nothing suits in art but gloom;
Succeeded by Italian skies,

As wayward fashion bids them rise.
Should you consider these brief hints as
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William Kettle
Martin Loy

Ed. T. Luscombe

Thomas Norris
John Ord

Ben. C. Pierce
Robert Smith

John Stephenson

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Jo. Bernard
Thomas Bulkeley

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J. J. Cronin
M. Devitt

Hen. Gardiner
Thomas Gernon
Geo. Herrick
James Hunter
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James Kelly

Sam. Kenning

Mic. King
Jer. Leyne
Jos. Little
Philip Lyons
William Magill
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tural models at the Theatre Odéon in Paris. She executes these imitations in her own person, assisted by others when more than one figure is necessary: the Parisians style her exhibitions tableaur vivans. Different foreign Journals speak with enthusiasm of the talent of this astonishing Lady, and the effect which her representations every where produce.

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"Much has been said of the wonderful effects of the pantomimic art among the RoVa-mans, who styled it a mute music more expressive than spoken or written language. In ancient times, however, the art was limited to mere attitude without any variety of physiognomical expression, for masks were worn by pantomimic performers as well as all other Roman actors. Madame Hendel Schutz, by a profound study of the models of antiquity, and an intimacy with the most distinguished men of learning and artists in Germany, has so developed and perfected her natural powers, that she now exercises the art of pantomime with a degree of superiority of which the ancients never formed and

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"Lady Hamilton, in whom various kinds of celebrity were combined, was the only individual who within our recollection has successfully cultivated pantomime; but existing antique models were always the objects of her representations.

"Madame Hendel Schutz brings before the eyes of the spectator the characteristic expression of ancient and modern plastic; that is to say, she represents the Egyptian, Greek, Italian styles, &c. But her attitudes are not mere imitations; she invents, and instead of painting simple fragmentory attitudes, she developes progressive actions of her own composition. She expresses, in the Grecian style, the fable of the Statue animated by Pygmalion, that of Psyche recognizing Cupid, &c.; and passing from profane to sacred subjects, she represents in the Italian style, the sinful, penitent, pious and expiring Mag

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"The present degeneration of the arts is attributed to the deficiency of good living models. The representations of Madame Hendel Schutz cannot be too strongly recomVulneribus Scloppeti-mended as an excellent school for actors,

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painters and sculptors."

LES MONTAGNES FRANÇAISES,
From a French Journal.

In the year 1793, when the terrible word mountain filled with horror all who did not participate in the crimes of that period, who would have dreamt that twenty years afterwards it would become the watch-word of De Methodo Floram Re-pleasure? The foundation of the magnifigionis cujusdam, &c. cent Temple at Folie Beaujou was no sooner laid, than the voice of fame celebrated its glory. Theatres, journals, advertiseinents, songs, all cried up the Montagnes Françaises, and a physician has at length published a treatise ex professo entitled Sanitary Considerations on the Promenades Aériennes. Madame Hendel Schutz, who has excited M. Cotterel has felt the pulse of the age the admiration of all the artists and amateurs he lives in; he does not present us with of Germany, is at present exhibiting her im- a grave dissertation copiously interspersed itations of celebrated paintings and sculp-with Latin and Greek quotations. His doc

SKETCHES OF SOCIETY AND
MANNERS.

FRENCH MANNERS.

TABLEAUX VIVANS.

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