2809.] 
in an old portfolio of Nic. Hawksmoon, 
Batty Langley, or John Benson, and 
used to save the expense of a new design, 
“Ballusters cutting the shafts of columns, 
a mongrel species of the Lonic order, 
partly Greek, partly Roman. A Doric 
attached portico of three-quarter columas 
of the same description, are among the 
absurdities of this staring pile, which, it 
is wonderful, is not shrunk into nothing- 
hess, by its elegant and classical neigh- 
bour the Bank of England. 
The Cotter’? Saturday Night. Two Prints, 26 
inches by 16. Engraved by Paton Thomson, 
London, from original Drawings, by the late 
David Allan, of Edingéurgh ; in the posses-» 
sion of Fobn Mair, esq. Glasgow. Published 
by Boydell and Co, Cheapside; and Alex. Fin- 
lay, Glasgow. 
The subjects of these two prints are 
taken from Burns’ poem of the same 
name. 
to describe each print, which the artist 
Allan, who was distinguished for the 
fidelity with which he painted the cos- 
tume and character of the Scotch pea- 
santry, has hit off with that humour and 
character, for which he was so esteemed 
in his own country. 
The second print is the most interest- 
ing of the two for every reason; the 
figures, especially the countenances, are 
characteristic and pleasing. There is a 
certain delicacy and evenness of colour 
in the first print, much resembling the 
handling of the best Italian engravers, 
and for that reason it does not at first at- 
tract the eye that is used to more force 
in the lights and shadows. In the second 
there is,more force and depth of colour, 
and delicacy of handiing, and it seems to 
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have been the engraver’s favourite. The 
designs are hivhbly characteristic of the 
people, the story well told, and are pleas- 
ing illustrations of the simplicity, piety, 
and literary cultivation, af the peasantry 
in the northern division of the kingdom. 
EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS, &c. 1N 
SCOTLAND. 
The second public Exhibition of Paint- 
ings, &e. in Scotland, by artists, closed on 
Saturday the 20th May. © During the 
short period of six weeks, that the ex. 
hibition rooms were open to the pub- 
lic, nearly five hundred guineas were 
collected; and it is in the  contem- 
plation of the society to build apartments 
for the express purpose of exhibiting 
their works in future. This institution 
will afford a powerful stimulus to young 
artists, to exert themselves to the utmost, 
in obtaining a_ knowledge of their art, 
by shewing that merit and distinc. 
tion will be constantly united, and that 
the most obscure individual will have an 
equal chance of public notice with the 
most celebrated. This, in times past, 
had been too little the case, and 
many @ young artist of promising ta- 
lents has had his efforts cramped, and 
the ‘ genial current of the soul” frozen, 
by the languor and despondency which 
proceed from disappointed prospects, and 
ineffectual exertions. That the exhibi-. 
tion, if properly conducted, may remedy 
this evil, is obvious; and we hope, that 
before the end of another year, its good 
effects will appear from the vigour and 
spirit with which the artists will prose~ 
cute their studies. ‘ 
eo 
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MA Musical Grammar,-in Four Parts—Nota- 
' tion, Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm. By 
Dr, Calleott, « 10s..68. °° | ' D 
i the general and distinguished 
merits of this publication we spoke 
atits first appearance. We now, there- 
fore, have only to announce its re-publi- 
cation, and to acknowledge additions 
and amendations it has received from 
the ingenuity and science of Mr. S. 
Wesley and Mr, Horsley, who, in conse- 
quence of the author’s  indisposition, 
faudably undertook its revisal. The di- 
wisions of the work, as the publisher 
justly observes, were, in the former 
edition, not snificiently broad and come 
prehensive, while many of the articles 
were less compressed, and perhaps less 
clear than at present. The examples of 
harmony, given before only by figured 
basses, are now illustrated by notes. 
Other important alterations occur, espe- 
cially in the fourth part,on rhythm. On 
this part of his subject the author, it is 
but iairly stated, entered without suffi- 
cient deliberation. Mr.S. Wesley has 
in the present edition obviated the ob- 
jections to which the exact comparison 
betweem 
