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Berchem, and Gerhard Douw, bear the highest ( ' R 
prices; but if productions by any of the s — * — 
Bolognese masters be shewn to them, they are 
rejected. Nothing of the sombre cast, however 
sublime, has any value in their estimation. 
The works of the Caracci, of Domenichino, or 
even of Michael Angelo, would not meet with 
admirers. A beautiful head by Corregio , not 
many years ago possessed by . an artist in 
London, in the course of those adventures to 
which fine pictures are liable, fell into the hands 
of a Russian priest. He kept it during a short 
time, because he had been told it was a cele- 
brated work ; but ultimately exchanged it for 
some wretched copies, with an Italian miniature- 
painter. “ It had too much shade,” he said, 
“ and the lights were too pale ; it had the air 
altogether of a head from the guillotine .” The 
method of paying their physicians by trinkets, 
before mentioned, might seem an inconvenience 
to the faculty ; but it is not so. Dr. Rogerson 
at Petersburg, as we were informed, regularly 
received his snuff-box, and as regularly carried 
it to a jeweller for sale. The jeweller sold it 
agaimto the first nobleman who wanted a fee 
for his physician, so that the doctor obtained 
his box again ; and at last the matter became 
so well understood between the jeweller and 
the physician, that it was considered by both 
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