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the picture, M. A, stands here for " middling'artist," and a very middling one 

 he is. 



No. 164. An Indian Page. W. Kidd. A good-looking black boy in 

 gorgeous apparel. 



No. 249- Sea Reach. W. Butland. Waves of putty and clouds of wool. 



No. 261. Hungarian Ford at Perth. Highly romantic, and quite new. 

 The face of the brawny Hungarian in the fore-ground is full of expression, 

 and the whole scene spirited and interesting. 



No. 309. Portrait of Mrs. Honey as Lilio. No. 441. Portrait of Miss 

 Murray, as Susannah. T. M. Joy. Outrageous, and what we are sure the 

 ladies will not thank him for, the very reverse of flattering likenesses. 



No. 444. Venice. J. Holland. We have already had occasion to make 

 favourable mention of Mr. Holland, and we are happy to be able to continue 

 our praise. His colouring is very agreeable to the eye, and even showy, 

 without, however, degenerating into gaudiness, and what he does bears the 

 internal stamp of fidelity ; you feel that it is a portraiture of the place you 

 are viewing, and not a fanciful composition of the artist, in which truth and 

 resemblance are sacrificed for effect. 



No. 456. Mr. Vandenhoff. R. W. Buss. Very strikingly like, and, what is 

 more, a pleasant likeness. 



No. 616. Model of a Fountain. E. W. Wyon. This is a clever production, 

 and does great credit to the artist. 



No. 618. A Nymph. J. Ternouth. A very beautiful naked figure reclin- 

 ing asleep. Why it is called a nymph we know not, but perchance it is want 

 of another name equally poetical. 



No. 621. Model of a Chariot Race. E. H. Corbould. This is an ad- 

 mirable design. The horses are struggling for the foremost place, and the 

 charioteers lean forward, eagerly pressing them onwards. All the figures 

 seem starting into life. 



No. 743. Portrait of J. Audubon. No. 803. Portrait of Victor Audubon, 

 F. Cruikshank. Both'excellent. 



No. 859. Othello relating his adventures to Desdemona. C. Martin. A 

 very well conceived and executed drawing. The lady does " most seriously 

 incline/' to hear the tale of her swarthy lover. 



NOTES OF THE MONTH. 



Nescio quid meditans nugarum et totus in illis. HORACE. 



CONSOLATION FOR THE CALUMNIATED. The great event of January was 

 the gambling transaction De Roos v. Cumming. All our matutinal and 

 hebdomadal contemporaries have descanted thereupon in all possible ways, and 

 great has been the expenditure of virtuous regret and indignation. Now we, 

 who look at all things, not with the jaundiced optics of cynicism, but with the 

 eye philanthropic, see great good in this much denounced affair. In the first 

 place, think of the names of the parties De Roos and Cumming. Is'nt there 

 something uncommonly grateful to the auricular appendages of the multitude 

 in the smack of the defendant's patronymic, particularly when prefaced by the 

 euphonious compound wherein his antagonist rejoiceth ? Why men who can- 

 not trace their progenitors anterior to the Deluge or the Norman conquest 

 may have such a name as Gumming, and yet be deemed meet rivals of people 

 who claim to be representatives of all the worthies of the primeval world. 

 Therefore let the Cummings clap their hands and be glad, because of their 

 exaltation. 



But the measure of our joy for the upraising of plebeian surnames is not yet 

 half filled. It is a fact (although the Times stated it) that one of Cumming's 



