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@hiefly for periodical publications, whose 
title-pages make amockery ofour patriot 
feelings, by assuming the appellation of 
English or British Galleries. What pre- 
tensions can aliens make to this honour- 
able distinction? 
And whence this perpetual care to jm- 
mortalize the labours of foreign painters? 
The reason is plain; there are no works 
of English ones on which the engravers 
can be employed. If this be the case, 
the booksellers are fully justified (ex- 
cepting in the instance of the titles), and 
their liberality cleared. In fact, to what 
works of historical painting shall they at 
resent look for the purposes of engrav- 
ing? Itis to be feared there is little ex- 
‘aggeration in saying, that in spite of all 
the boasted promotion of the arts, there 
are not three painters in England who 
gan, in return, baast of a single commis- 
sion for a picture of history (except from 
the booksellers); and of English history, 
Rot one. Yet the series of pictures paint- 
ed by English artists for Mr, Davison, 
‘trom subjects of English history, remains 
still unengraved. Is any speculator in 
virtté employed in publishing proposals 
for engraving them? Or are no subscri- 
bers to be hoped for to any work of this 
kind, unless a numerous list can be first 
secured of those whose vanity is interest- 
ed, as possessors of ong or more of the 
original treasures from which it is cor: 
posed? The unfortunate public circum- 
stance which affected the patron of the 
eollection just mentioned, about the time 
when it was first formed, can scarcely be 
supposed to have diminished the merits 
of the works which were painted for him, 
but it was ‘greatly to be lamented by the 
artists themselves in general, as it served 
te throw a damp on the otherwise auspi- 
Review of New Musical Publications. 
[Nov. 1, 
cious project, and actual commence- 
ment, of a really British Gallery of 
Paintings. 
Several broken parts belonging to the 
éelebrated statue of Theseus, in the Elgin 
collection, have lately been discovered 
among the numerous fragments in his 
lordship’s gallery, and that invaluable re- 
lic of ancient sculpture will be thus 
brought nearer to the state in which it 
commanded admiration in the days of 
Phidias. 
An ingenious and simple method for 
removing the tartareous crust that dis- 
figures the surface of many of the statues 
in Lord Elgin’s collection, is also in con- 
templation. Itis said to be the same.so 
successfully employed in cleaning the 
statues dug up in the neighbourhood of 
Lome, Statues, it is to be hioped, may 
Lear cleaning better than pictures gene. 
rally do. Hjs lordship will, no doubt, 
not risk any attempt of this kind, unléss 
under the direction of the ablest sculp- 
tors. ; 
Premiums are again this year offered 
hy the British Institution to the young 
students in the gallery, for the best pic- 
ture in history, in familiar life, and in 
landscape; and an additional, premium 
is likewise proposed for the best madel, 
of heroic or poetic cosapoaition, in sculp- 
ture. 
Canoya, the famous Venetian sculp- 
tor, is employed on a statue of the Duke 
of Bedford, ‘The statue is to be erected 
at Woburn. This will be an adequate 
test of his abilities in comparison with 
those of our own countrymen. But it is 
to be apprehended there is scarcely any 
chance at present of its reaching thg 
place of its destination. ‘ 
REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
a 
The Beauties of Purcell, being a Selection of the 
favourite Songs, Dustts, Frios, and Choruses 
“fram the different Works of Purcell. Szlected, 
sdapted, and arranged, from the originalS¢ores, 
witb an Accompaniment for ibe Piano-forte, 
and dedicated to the Rev. Rickard Allott, D.D. 
by fobs Clarke, Mus, Dec. Cantab. 1), os. 
‘THEN a professor of the abilities and 
science, of which Dr. Clarke has so 
repeatedly afforded to the musical public, . 
such welcome proofs, undertakes the 
eedulous and lauilable task of reviving 
the productions of such a master.as Pur- 
cell; too much encouragement cannot 
pe given to the effort, mor wo much 
praise to his success. The best choses 
examples of the immortal Purcell are 
here presented to us, in a more perspi-. 
cuous and alluring garb, than we had 
ever before seen them; and the national 
honor derived from his genius, is held 
up in a fairer and more striking light. 
Dr. Clarke’s added accompaniments 
and symphonies, are cautious and judi- 
cious; and at once express his high sense 
of his author's intrinsic excellence, and 
of what was requisite to the accomoday 
tion of modern practitioners. We, some 
months since, announced our favorable 
expecgations, respecting this promised 
publication, 
