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Rembrandt's great principles of light and 

 shadow, with the detail of Denner. If jou 

 will come this way, you will see it in that 

 picture of Gerard Dow. Do not, how- 

 ever, go too close, at first, but look from 

 this place at the general effect : you who 

 begin to feel some relish for the mellow 

 harmonious tints of Rembrandt, may here 

 admire the same excellencies in this work 

 of his scholar. I will now allow you to 

 come quite close ; and I beg you will ex- 

 amine the minute but mellow style of 

 finishing, which is displayed in the wo- 

 man's face and hands, in the sleeping child, 

 the basket-work of the cradle, and, above 

 all, in the old velvet chair ; part of which 

 you plainly see has been rubbed thread- 

 bare by long use. To raise your wonder 

 still higher, I must desire you will look at 

 it with this glass ; though, to say the truth, 

 the trial is too severe ; for the glass is one 

 I make use of for examining gems, and is 

 a Very powerful magnifier." 



" This is surprising, indeed," said Mr. 

 Seymour : " I saw, with my naked eye, 

 how admirably he had represented the 



