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OUR OWN LIMNER. 



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" DEAR GEORGE HARVEY, Wherever you are give me a little 

 help. A Cambridge bookseller insists on publishing a lecture 

 on the senses, which you heard in whole or in part at the 

 Philosophical Institution. He is bringing it out elegantly, and 

 of his own move, resolves upon a medallion or vignette on the 

 board of the book. . . . The bookbinder's man of genius has 

 made a stupid design, and I now apply to my friend of genius 

 to help with a better. I have suggested, 1. Simply a classic 

 head, such as the Antinous, front face. 2. A five-rayed star (to 

 stand for the soul) ! surrounded by a glory. 3. A five-gated, 

 five -angled tower, as in the old ' Holy Wars/ The difficulty is 

 to draw the soul. Ye never seed the sowl, did ye ? 



" Draw me something, like a good man, and send it here. 

 My last notion is a five-rayed star, whilk is the sowl ; a penta- 

 gon surrounding the same, whilk is the five-gated Citie of Man- 

 soul ; a serpent biting of his tail, whilk is Eternity, surrounding 

 that, as is here drawn by our own limner, 



(j. fc ft Jfcf. 



" Can you beat that ? If so, do it, and I'll be much obliged. 

 I am in a most pleasant country here, and pretty well. Your 

 dearly loving GEORGE WILSON." 



Of the 'Five Gateways/ about eight thousand copies have 

 been sold up to this time, besides an unauthorized issue by a 



