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RaphaeVs Cartoons (Vol. x., p. 45.). — The in- 

 accuracy pointed out by E. L. B. in that cartoon 

 of Raphael which represents the solemn commis- 

 sion given by our Blessed Lord to St. Peter, as 

 recorded in the last chapter of St. John, undoubt- 

 edly deserves attention; but I am unwilling to 

 consider it as a mistake. I think it may be fairly 

 presumed, that the prince of painters was quite 

 aware of what he did, and that he did it inten- 

 tionally ; even as he purposely sacrificed propor- 

 tion in the pillars of the cartoon of the " Healing 

 of the lame Man," and purposely made the boats 

 out of all proportion in the " Miraculous Draught 

 of Fishes." 1 think E. L. B. has not correctly de- 

 scribed the scene. He says that " St. John is so 

 eagerly pressing forward, that St. Peter's expres- 

 sion, 'What shall this man do?' is clearly repre- 

 sented." But the Gospel relates this as a subse- 

 quent event, when our Saviour told St. Peter to 

 follow him. When he had begun to walk on after 

 him, he turned round, and saw St. John following 

 too. Then it was that he asked : " What shall 

 this man do?" No part of this appears in the 

 cartoon ; for St. Peter is on his knees, and St. 

 John is no more following than the other disciples. 



I believe, then, that the great Raphael intended 

 indeed primarily to represent the commission to 

 St. Peter to feed the lambs and sheep ; but that 

 he wished at the same time to associate with this 

 the previous power of the keys ; and, accordingly, 

 St. Peter is kneeling, and holding a massive pair 

 of keys, which E. L. B. overlooks. Having thus 

 intentionally admitted one anachronism, it was no 

 great stretch of pictorial license to introduce more 

 apostles, as they were all present when St. Peter 

 received the power of the keys. F. C. H. 



" Forgive, blest shade" (Vol. ix., p. 241. ; Vol. x., 

 p. 133.). — The lines were written by the Rev. 

 Mr. Gill, curate of New Church, Isle of Wight, 

 and are inscribed on the stone of Mrs. Anne 

 Berry. They were set to music by Dr. Calcott, 

 when on a visit to Lord Amherst, at St. John's, 

 near Ryde, then the property of his lordship, but 

 now of Sir John Simeon. G. H. 



Sepulchral 3fonuments (Vol. ix., pp. 514. 539. 

 586.). — The language used by C. T. and F. S. B. E. 

 seems to show that they are unacquainted with the 

 volumes entitled Musee des Monumens Frangais, 

 par Alex. Le Noir : Paris, 1802. 



Before the restored Bourbons had obliged Le 

 Noir to give up the monuments of their ancestors, 

 of which he had become possessed when they were 

 at the mercy of the revolutionai-y vandals, I re- 



member several sepulchral statues in his collection, 

 in which the imitation of the corpses of the persons 

 to whose monuments they had belonged was 

 carried to such a degree of hideous accuracy as to 

 exhibit the long aperture cut for the purpose of 

 disembowelling the deceased, and the thong with 

 which the sides of that aperture had afterwards 

 been brought together by lacing. 



Such was the case with the figures of Louis XIL 

 and his queen, Anne of Brittany ; as also with 

 those of Francis I., and of Henry II., who died in 

 1580. In this last elaborately executed, and 

 otherwise beautiful monument, the corpse of the 

 monarch was represented as so placed on a couch, 

 that the head reached beyond the pillow by which 

 it should have been supported, and consequently 

 as having dropped into a position which made the 

 beard rise in the air above the chin. 



In all these instances the recumbent figures had 

 a flat roof or scaffold above them, bearing the full- 

 dressed effigies of the same persons, in the posture 

 of prayer. Henry Walter. 



Dr. Reid and Lord Brougham v. Bishop 

 Berkeley and Home Tooke (Vol. x., p. 74.). — It is 

 the opinion of your correspondent Q,., that Berkeley 

 and Tooke have been misunderstood and mis- 

 represented by their respective opponents. Now, 

 that your readers may judge of the correctness of 

 this opinion from the words of the writers them- 

 selves, I give a quotation from each, exemplifying 

 the application of their respective theories. 



" As to what is said of the absolute existence of un- 

 thinking beings without any relation to their being per- 

 ceived, that seems pevl'ectly unintelligible. Their esse is 

 percipi, nor is it possible they should have any existence, 

 out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them." 

 — Berkeley's Frinciples of Human Knowledge, Part I. § 3. 



" Truth supposes mankind : for whom and by whom 

 alone the word is formed, and to whom only it is applicable. 

 If no man, no truth. There is therefore no such thing as 

 eternal, immutable, everlasting Truth ; unless mankind, 

 such as they are at present, be also eternal, immutable, 

 and everlasting."— Tooke'sZ>ii;ersioMSo/i'MrZey; London, 

 1840, p. 607. 



In opposition to Bishop Berkeley's statement, Dr. 

 Reid appealed to the " Common Sense " of man- 

 kind, and said : " The belief of a material world is 

 older and of more authority than any principles of 

 philosophy ; " and Common Sense decided in his 

 favour. In like manner, Dugald Stewart and 

 Lord Brougham appeal to the Moral Sense of 

 mankind, whether the belief in the existence of 

 eternal, immutable, and everlasting truth is not 

 older and of more authority than any principles of 

 philology ; and the Moral Sense of mankind will 

 heartily respond to the appeal. I am far from 

 wishing to deny or disparage the utility or value 

 of metaphysical or philological investigations 

 within their proper limits. But when the meta- 

 physician asserts that there is no external world, 



