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author of Gleanings in Natural History ; and 

 both these learned gentlemen have written 

 treatises on the art. We could mention seve- 

 ral more distinguished living individuals who 

 are lovers of the art; but we think it will 

 fully answer our purpose, to refer the reader to 

 our list of patrons and subscribers.* In that 

 list will be seen the names of the first nobility 

 of our country first in rank, in ancientness 

 of race, in vast territorial possessions, in man- 

 ly virtue, and in high standard of intellect. 

 That list comprises and we feel justly proud, 

 and profoundly grateful in recording it the 

 names of the first warriors, the first statesmen, 

 the first political and literary characters of our 

 time of men, who, with risk of life, and loss 

 of blood and limb, have defended, and upheld, 

 and augmented, the glory and interests of our 

 beloved country in the field, and in presence of 



* From that list we cannot refrain from choosing the 

 name of Sir Francis Chantrey. That name carries with it 

 the highest distinction that of genius and that name 

 is already entwined with the most interesting portion of 

 the history of our country with that part of it which 

 treats, and shall have to treat, of the state and progress 

 of the fine arts. The greatest and the most classically- 

 chaste of living sculptors, is an ardent and excellent, fly- 

 fisher. Sir Walter Scott has said of this immortal artist, 

 " We have ourselves seen the first sculptor in Europe, 

 when he had taken two salmon on the same morning, and 

 can well believe, that his sense of self-importance exceeded 

 twenty-fold that which he felt on the production of any 

 of the master-pieces which have immortalized him." 



