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sessor and a chosen few : it is the art of the engraver 

 that enables the object to meet the eye of thousands : 

 he it is who enables the mimic representation to 

 become possessed by foreign nations, and from " Indus 

 to the Pole " silently, but energetically, to show the 

 manly feats that lead to the daring spirit which keeps 

 our hearths and homes inviolate. 



In this iron age, who can peep into futurity and 

 say whether the steam-engine that enables us to fly 

 like meteors through our native land, and bring 

 nations as neighbours to each other, will eventually 

 prove a blessing or a curse. Politics are no subject 

 for sporting works, though sporting pictures and 

 sporting prints have ever been children of their 

 adoption : but who can see the coaching scenes so 

 ably and so truly characteristically illustrated by C. 

 C. Henderson, Esq., and by some others, and not feel 

 a sigh escape him for scenes arid days gone by ? Time 

 was when we should have hailed such specimens of 

 what ivas our country's boast with unmixed pleasure; 

 but now a saddened feeling creeps over us from their 

 very fidelity, somewhat similar to those pleasurable 

 but painful feelings with which we witness the faith- 

 ful representations of those dear to our recollection, 

 but now no more. 



The snorting monster, that we could almost fancy 

 frightens Nature from her propriety in its headlong 

 course, has, no doubt, its great conveniences : but all 

 the pleasure of travelling is gone. Cold must be the 

 heart that could travel through a blooming and a 

 fertile country without feeling an elevation of spirits 

 that we shall never again experience. Time was 

 when the summit of each hill afforded fresh objects 

 for our wonder or admiration ; but now we grovel 



