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a great number of curious books, por- 
traits, and memoirs on typography. “he 
author fpeaks afterwards of certain pro- 
cefles defcribed in Germany, in 1740, 
as being practifed there, at that period, 
and which have for object operations of 
the kind of thofe which Ged employed, 
and which have been made ufe of in France 
in later times. In Germany, they have 
continued to follow thefe proceties, and 
the defcription of them is ftill to be found 
in two articles of the German Encyclo- 
pee which is publifhed in quarto, at 
rankfort on the Mayne. Citizen Camus;- 
after this, gives an account of the diffe- 
rent operations on fome metallic alloys, 
which have the property of foftening, and 
even of melting, in boiling water ; opera- 
tions which, without being part of the pro- 
cefs of ftereotypy, have, yet, conducted to 
the proceffes that have been ufed for fte- 
teotypy. He next gives a detailed hifto- 
ry of the attempts made by Citizen Ro- 
“CHON, at that time of the Academy of 
Sciences, and of that of the Marine, and 
now of the National Inftitute; and by 
HorrMaN, the Alfacian, on polytypage, 
to which he joins a proof of the eighth 
page of vol. 3, of the Recherches fur les 
Maures, a work polytyped by Hoffman, 
and the plates of which have been confided 
for this purpofe to Citizen Camus. The 
public will doubilefs read with pleafure 
the details, almoft totally unknown, which 
the author gives on the attempts made re- 
latively to fiereotypy, fince the year 1786, 
by Citizen CAREZ, printer, at Toul, no- 
minated, in 1791, by the department of 
La Meurthe, to the firft legiflature, where 
he was member of the committee of af- 
fignats : afterwards nominated, in the year 
9, fub-prefect at Toul, where he died in 
 Retrofped? of the Fine Arts 
[July 15° 
the fame year. In 1786, Citizen Carez 
executed, by a procefs.of which Citizet 
Camus givesa defcription, and which has 
a moft ftriking refemblance to” ftereoty-. 
page, the edition of achurch-book, noted, 
in two volumes, large oétavo, more than 
tooo pages each; and fuccefflively he 
printed, in the fame manner, twenty vo- 
lumes of liturgy or of inftru€&tion for the 
ule of the diocefe. On his return home, 
after the firft legiflature, Carez finifheds 
in the fame kind, a Di€tionary of Fables 
and a Bible, in non-pareil characters. | 
Thefe very {mall and clofe-fet chara¢ters 
have been rendered, in the way of ftereo- 
type, with furprifing neatnefs, although 
the fize be large oftavo, on two columns, 
each of which contains eighty-five lines : 
a judgment may be made of it. from a 
page of that Bible, of which Citizen Cas 
mus has annexed a proof in his membir. 
He has caufed it to be drawn on onevof 
feveral plates of different books, whicly 
Carez has fent to him. ‘Two authentic 
pieces, addreffed by this citizen to the © 
author, prove, from the year 1787, the 
reality and the fuccefs of his difcoveries, 
which fecures to him one of the . firft 
places among the artifts who have made 
fortunate attempts in ftereotypy. The 
progrefs of ‘this art, employed afterwards 
in the fabrication of affignats, was mul- 
tiplied, and fucceeded rapidly in numerous 
attempts of every kind made by the Na- 
tional Convention for that purpofe. The, 
hiftory of all thefe attempts, and of their 
refults, is one of the moft curious pieces 
in the memoir here alluded to, and whicly 
Citizen Camus terminates by a deferip- 
tion of the labours in ftereotypy, under 
taken by the Citizens Bouvier, Pierres 
and Fermin Didot, and by Herhans 
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. 
(Communications and the Loan of al! new Prints are requefted.) 
The Lowe-fick Maid, or the Dodtor puzzled.— 
La Fille malade d'amour, ou le Medecin em- 
barafse. ‘© She newer told ber Lowe.” 
' Ff. Opie pinxit: Ward feulp. , 
HIS print is engraved froma picture 
which was in laft year’s exhibition : 
that of the angry Father which was exhi- 
bited at the Royal Academy this year, 
was painted as a companion to it. Of 
Mr. Opie’s productions we have often had 
eccafion to fpeak with the higheft refpeét ; 
he is the moit forcible painter we have, 
but his pictures are ufually made up of 
characters that belong to common life, 
deftitute of dignity, and without any 
attempt at elevation, The figure of 
Timon in his admirably coloured picture 
in the Shaktepeare Gallery, though very 
well drawn and coloured, looks like a 
great vulgar bruifer: no one would ima- 
gine that fuch a favage bad ewer fate at 
good men’s tables, or been a member of 
civilized fociety. 
The phyfician, and the other charac- 
ters in this print, are in their habits and. 
appearance a very fhort remove from the 
prefent 
