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her smiles with him ; (it might not be so difficult to 

 rouse his suspicions against a wife ;) but, though the 

 world might know that his beauteous Emma lavished 

 those smiles on an army, " pioneers and all," the pale 

 chaste moon and his and only his Emma are but 

 prototypes of each other in his ideas tant mieux 

 pour ceux qui savent profiter d j un heureux moment! 



The different modes of engraving are so various 

 that to compare the merits of prints with each other 

 it is quite necessary that we compare prints engraved 

 in the same manner. To instance : we will take the 

 Quorn or Bedale meetings, and a most clever print 

 lately come out of a Scotch terrier, entitled " Out of 

 Luck." No comparison could be made between the 

 merits of the prints. Of course the two former are 

 more elaborate, expensive, and beautiful^ specimens of 

 art ; but the latter little gentleman is so perfectly 

 true to nature, so perfectly a puppy of nine months 

 old begging, that in the former we have a most 

 valuable representation of men, horses, and dogs, but 

 here we have the dog nearly as much so as if we had 

 given a couple of guineas for him of one of those 

 gentlemen in Tattersall's gateway, who, of course, are 

 not to blame if dogs will persist in following them 

 though, strange to say, they have lately much left 

 off that propensity since they have read the new law. 



I know not whether I am wrong or not in my 

 opinion, but I must allow I have always entertained 

 the impression that the art of colouring engravings, 

 wonderfully improved as it has, has not improved so 

 much as the art of engraving itself. This, however, 

 depends in a great measure on the style of the engrav- 

 ing. The terrier dog to which I have alluded is most 

 beautifully coloured, and gains much by it. Whoever 



