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plate. The second plate is a pencil-drawing of a plant; wehave 
seen an engraving of the same plant in a botanical work of great 
luxury of execution, and we hesitate not to prefer the lithogra- 
phic impression. The third plate presents various specimens of 
writing—lItalic, Roman, &c. and fac-similes of old Greek manu- 
scripts. In this department the lithographic art. is unrivalled ; 
it presents the originals with an accuracy in every way that it is 
impossible for any other branch of art ever to attain.. The fourth 
plate is a topographic plan cut in stone, which produces a very 
striking and peculiar effect. The Count Lastevrie’s Battle of 
Austerlitz may be cited as a model of perfection in this way, 
The fifth plate is a pencil-design of a nosegay of roses: litho- 
graphy seems excellently calculated to render with truth the va- 
rious parts of flowers with a softness and precision resembling 
nature. The sixth plate is written music, or, as the lithographers 
denote it, autographed music. The method by which this 
plate is executed displays one of the most important advantages 
of lithography:—a person writes a letter, composes music,. or 
makes a drawing on paper in the ordinary way, excepting that 
he uses a peculiar ink ; this is transferred to the stone by simply 
Passing it through the press, and the stone, without further pre- 
Pparation, is ready to print off thousandsof proofs, all equally perfect, 
It is this quality of lithography that has secured its admission into 
all the French public offices: by its means 60,000 or 70,000 
proclamations, in the autograph of the minister, may be taken off 
and dispatched before the plate even could be engraved. In the 
branch of landscape, the Count Lasteyrie has recently surpassed 
his former efforts so far that they wiil not bear any comparison 
with each other: it is difficult to fix the limits of genius, united ’ 
with application, or we shonld be inclined to believe that he had 
very nearly attained the perfection at which it is possible for the 
art to arrive, 
LECTURES, 
Mrs. Lowry, whose lessons in Mineralogy are exemplified bya 
systematically arranged and extensive collection of minerals and 
models, will recommence her instructions directly after Christ- 
mas, at her house, 57, Great Titchfield-street. 
Mr. Taunton’s Winter Course of Lectures on Anatomy, Phy- 
siology, Patholegy, and Surgery, will commence at the Theatre 
of Anatomy, Hatton Garden, on Saturday, January 24, at eight 
o'clock in the evening precisely, and be continued every Tuesday, 
Thursday, and Saturday, at the same hour. 
Mr. Thomas Bell, F.L.S. will commence his Lectures on the 
Structure and Diseases of the Teeth, &c. at Guy’s Hospital, on 
Friday the 9th of January, at half past five o’clock, Tickets may. 
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