referred. Their's was the understanding " at once penetrating and vigi- 

 lant, but more distinguished, perhaps, for the caution and sureness of its 

 march than for the brilliancy or rapidity of its movements : and guided 

 and adorned through all its progress by the most genuine enthusiasm 

 for all that is grand, and the justest taste for all that is beautiful." 



ATHENAEUM. 



Messrs. Walker and Son have published a large engraving of fifty-one 

 distinguished men of science, alive in 1807-8, grouped together in the 

 library of the Eoyal Institution. This engraving, which is a beautiful 

 production, is described as designed by Gilbert, &c It is accom- 

 panied by a book, the frontispiece of which is a reducod copy of the 

 engraving, for reference, &c. 



ONCE A WEEK. 



An earnest artist named William Walker, not being wholly absorbed 

 in the pursuit of gain, but working with enthusiasm on his own percep- 

 tions of what is great in humanity and fitting in a nation, has for many 

 years devoted himself to the task of gathering and grouping together the 



great men who were living in the early part of the present century 



This is of a verity a picture of great men men whose instinct it was to 

 work for the world and fight against misery : some of them wealthy and 

 some of them poor; with visions perchance of wealth to come, but still 

 working for the world's welfare as the only path through which to ensure 

 their own, the race of path-finders who are ever setting copies for the 

 English nation to work by, and thus gain more results by the development 

 of national energy. Accompanying the picture, which contains upwards 

 of fifty portraits, some full figures, and some more or less hidden, but all 

 admirably grouped, there is a volume, by Mr. Walker's son, giving a brief 

 memoir of the salient points of each individual history ; this also is well 

 executed, and it forms a useful book of reference for those who would 



know more than the picture can tell Grateful are we to men like 



Mr. Walker, who has thus gathered together in groups the world's workers, 

 with their images and superscriptions, that men may know their bene- 

 factors, and render to their memory that justice which was too rarely 

 accorded to their lives. So, all honour to the work of both the father and 

 the son, the picture and the book, in teaching the men of the present what 

 they owe to men of the past. 



