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certain extent> well coloured. PHILLIPPS is not so happy in his whole 

 length portraits as in those of a Kitcat size ; but his heads are always finely 

 painted, and the tone is generally pure in colour. His finest picture this 

 year is the Portrait of Davies Gilbert, Esq. The pencil of H. P. BRIGGS, R.A., 

 appears to be wholly devoted to portraiture, in which line of art, however, 

 the ci-devant illustrator of English history has not hitherto taken very high 

 ground. PICKERSGILL, R.A., remains as per last. The Earl of Eldon, di- 

 vested of the dignity of professional costume, Baron D'Humboldt, The Right 

 Hon. the Speaker, and Lord Henley, are among the offspring of his palette. 

 The Princess Victoria, by G. HAYTER, M.A.S.L., is the very extreme of 

 weakness and insipidity ; neither in colour, drawing, or design, is there the 

 least commendable quality. In the miniature room a large whole-length 

 group, in oil, portraits of the Countess of Lichfield, &c., shew to what ex- 

 tent of absurdity a member of the academy of St. Luke's may be carried. 

 A. E. CHALON, R.A., exhibits several of his slight but elegantly designed 

 portraits of ladies and children, wherein fashion and taste are happily 

 blended. Some of the miniatures of ROBERTSON, Mrs. ROBERTSON, CRUICK- 

 SHANK, and DENNING, are perfect specimens of their class. A large draw- 

 ing of Hollyhocks, by V. BARTHOLOMEW, deserves high praise : it is richly 

 coloured, and designed with taste. 



Among the Sculpture the most masterly works are the Hon. Mountstuart 

 Elphinstone, F. CHANTREY, R.A. ; Bust of the Princess Louisa, of Saxe 

 Weimar, by the same ; A Statue, in marble, of Thomson the Poet, C. Rossi, 

 R.A. ; Busts of Dr. Babington, and S. Woodburn, Esq., H. BEHNES ; and Venus 

 and Cupid, by GIBSON. Of this last it should be observed, that the fine 

 taste displayed in the form of the limbs and extremities, which are beautifully 

 rounded and voluptuous, without being heavy or ungraceful, is of the highest 

 order of statuary. Venus is turning her head backward to kiss her boy, 

 whose lips are joined to her own in fond delight ; their pouting expression is 

 worthy of the divinities presiding over love. These figures are highly 

 polished in more than one sense. Caius Marius, sitting on the Ruins of 

 Carthage, E. H. BAILY, is not at all to our taste. There is a want of 

 gusto in the design ; the figure is clumsily huddled together, nor is the head 



other than a variation of the Roman busts of Hercules. 



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 AMONG the French writers who have attained celebrity in the 



field of novel writing, Paul de Kock stands proudly pre-eminent. He 

 so precisely strikes the chord which harmonizes with the taste of the 

 French public, that his productions have been received with a favour 

 more lasting and general than has fallen to the lot of those of his 

 contemporaries. He is a republican writer, a delineator of what 

 would be termed here, low life. He never soars into the regions of 

 fashion to dazzle and regale his readers with descriptive luxury, or 

 the follies and eccentricities of the world on stilts. He seems quite 

 unconscious of the existence of conventional personages, or that any 

 degree of interest can be attached to any other class, but that which 

 he has specially selected to furnish subjects for his pencil. Paul 

 walks along the crowded thoroughfares of life, jostling and 

 jostled, gleaning materials in every fresh contact with his fellow-men 



