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lottery, aiul e dia Kn or at an annua speechisying Al such associationsa to encourage quantit ratherthan quality. NON, in the dea and leasurabie aris quali P is early verything one Turne nothonlytranscend te thousan Claudes and Vandervelites; hecis in another sphere. O could no thus sum phis orth. One of the mos flagrant infractions of the primarylaw of politica economy, and one of the mos curious illustrations of the fashionable fallacies a to veminent enCouragemento Art, is to e inundin the revelations in the Repor of the Selec Committe o the outhmensington hi Seum. Μr LOWe,

and the majorit of the Committee, gaverit a their opinion, tha', vernment should ea in photographs. and underari them thereb ruining the regula trade), and at for the encouragement of Art, and the en lightennient of the publici an mere e anythingmore absurd than his, an at this time of ay and nolint absurd an expensive but mischievous Allthis, yO See, out be avoided, and societ lest toproviderit ominit, ascit provides iis own bee and tro Ser formiself is en ould old illi Jolin Locke an Coventrymich, an Egomet, that oue ment, the State, has impi nothin to do illi these

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fide iis sisters-Poetr and usic is the annuat Exhibitions Nothin more thoroughi barbarous and chil disti could e devised than his concentratin thementa activit of the nation in regard to the Artifthe ear po One monili. ancytur ein obligedio rea allisur noveis, an ali ur poeti y, and earallisur music in a segmenti ou year Then hereis the mixin timos ali foris os pictures sacrei and prosane ga an Sombre, etc. -al huddled together, and the ye nittin stom ne to thelother. Hencelli temptation tota in down to the gaudiest pictures, instea os up or into the pure intensit os nature. hy hould there not e some large public hali towhicli artist may sen thei pictures at an time heia the are persectedi ut belle stili, et pii chaSer frequent thc studios, a the didis old, fullos love and nowledge. Wh Wili, insist in press-ing ou Ar an oti aste, as e id long ago urreligion and ur God, pon ur eighbours 'Vhy

In ur excellent Nationa Galleo Edilaburghin, a copyii Titian' Ariadne in axos i liuia immediatet above Villite' sincred helch os olin nox administering the Sacrament in Calde Houge l

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wili neve reac iis sui persectio tilicit is allowed to assi a liberty, and fosso the course of allisther productions that o suppi an demand individua demand an voluntar supply It is no eas to tellho sar ac these ell-meaning Iealotis, deluded men ho have manage these encouragemenis, 'have pii the progress of the nation in iis poweris knowin and seelin true Art. One ther heres I must vent, and that is to pro

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test against the doctrine that scientis conowledge iso much direct avai to the artist it ma enlarge his min a a man, and harpen an strengthen his nature, ut the nowledge of anatomyris, I belleve,

more a snare than anythin eis to an artis a such.

Ar is the fertium quid resulun stom observation and imagination, illi skill and love and downrighines asthei executors; anyllain that interseres mih the action o any of these, is hillin to the wuli Art. Now, aintin has tota simply an absolutet withthe sursaces, Nith the appearances of things; itano an cares nothin for hat is beneath and beyond, though is it doescit own pari aright it indicates them.

Phidias and the early Greelis, there is no reason Obelieve, ver dissecte even a monkey, much les aman, and et where is there suCh hin, an muscle,

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8a a belle representer of the wonde ut orks os God whicli ere palnted on his retina, and in his inne chamber-the me Camera Iurida, the chamber

mos modi belli good Goldsmitti putii in his

inimitable Way- was ver of opinion that thehonest man who marrie an brought up a larget ij, di more service than he who continued

single an oni talhed os population.' have sat thos things Strongly, abruptly, and perhaps rudely but in hean is in the alter Artis parti m dati Mod like the aughter os children,

and the ommon air, the earth, the hy it is an affection, no a passion to otii and go like the gustyininit, nor a principi col an dead it penetrates

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m eritire lise, it is ne of the fures an deepesipleasures, one of the refuges rom the nature of things, a Bacon ould say, into that enchanted region that, ample aether, that divine air, Whereine et aalimpse nolint os a Paradis that is past, but of a Paradis that is to come. There is ne mala amongst us h has done moret breatli the breain o lis into the literatum and the philosoph of Art who has incouraged 'cit tenthousand times more effectu alty than alitur industrious Coles an anxious Art-Unions and that is in authoro Modem ainfers. I do not know that there is anythin in uriterature, or in an literature, to Compare illi the effect of this ne man's ritings. Helias by his heer orce of mind, and emour os nature,

the depili an exactnes of his nowledge, an hisamagin beaut an power os language, resse thesubjectis Art stomaein subordinate an technical, to the sanae levet with Poeto an Philosophy. FIehas live to se an entire change in the public mindan Meye, and what is beller in the public hear inal that pertain to the literatur an philosoplinos repreSentative genius. He combines iis bod an iis foui. an besore im rote bout iis Ody, and some weli; a sew, a Charies ambon Our great Tilmarsh, touched iis foui it a les t Johia Rushin toto both.

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and many thers have more humour. his Iohia Knox reaching, more energy,-his Joh Knox atthe Sacrament, more of heave an victorious aith

quarteriles, in the orta Britas Remi , Murtem ears ago, as

aliis is a ver extraordinar an a very delightsul book sullos truth and goodness, os power an beaut' Ingenius may be

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but there is more of human nature more os the human

heari, in his, tha in an of the iners. It is fuit os

The stili, ad musicis humanity; 'stili an sad, ut et musical by reason oscit true ideali , he ainter actin his pari a reconciter cimen to thei circumstances his is ne great endo poetW and lainting. Even hem ainsul ano terribi in thei subjecis, the are os poWer, byraisin pii and ear o terror, o purge the in ossuchlike passioris, - that is, o temper an reduce

min to a meditative tendernesS.'ence and gossi se perpetuat, though Subdue achnowledgmentis the Almighty, a the sum an substance, the egi nning and the redin os nil truth, os ali power os ali goodriess, arid os ad heauty. This book Mo eo minDn contain more true philosophy, more information o a stricti scientific iud, more originalthought an exac observationis nature more enlightene and serious enth iram, and more eloquent,ri ting than it ould beeas to match no meret in ork of iis own iras, ut in thoseo an class-hatever. Ita ves usin new, and we hin the oesytime theor of heaut an sublimi ly it asseris and proves the existence ne element in laniis p painting, placin iis princerapon his rightsul throne it insold an illustrates, with singular Orce, variety, and emty the law of anu it expiat an enlarces the me nature and specific iunctio of the imagination, illi the precision and sui nes of one harin authority, and ali his desivere in lanmage hicli, o purit an Strengthan native richness, Nould no have distionoured the early man-hood os Ierem Taylor, o Edmund Burice, oris the authoeso favo te Richard Hooker ' . .