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approach nearer to the proportions of 
Lord Elgin’s admirable Theseus than any 
other known model), correctly dividing 
the abdomen, and its region, into more 
accurate proportions, than by former me- 
thods, and every artist is indebted to the 
Jearned professor, for tlie ease with which 
he may now acquire this elementary 
branch of the fine arts. Professor Car- 
lisle has wisely promised to abandon 
technical terms as much as’ possible, 
which witl certainly make the science: 
more easy of acquisition. Mr Carlisle 
has since continued his lectures with ull- 
abated success. 
The Exhibition of the Works of Living 
British Artists was opened on Monday, 
the thirteenth ult. at the rooms of the 
British Institution, Pall Mall, and reflects 
great honour on ‘the English school of 
art, though not so numerous as in former 
years. 
England wanted but a school of art. 
to seat her ¢ among the most civilized na- 
tions of Europe; and to the honour of the 
present reign, this desirable end is at: 
length obtained. 
Tn the present exhibition the enquiry 
'§ naturally directed to those pictures 
that the icarned committee of the msti- 
tution have stamped with the reward of 
wuerit; although by the competition of 
Sharp and Mulready; Dawe and Hilton; 
Linnel and Chalon; the utmost abi ities 
of the..committee were certainly called 
forth; yet, perhaps,-never were works of 
art more nicely balanced, and certainly 
never was the decision of an institution 
more just; and, as only one in each 
élass could be victors, the unsuccessful 
candidates have most honourably failed. 
In the class of history and poetry the 
powers of the mind are nearly equalled. 
Hilton, in the Red Cross Knight, bas 
egared into the regions of ideal chan: and 
kas successfully “wielded the acs of 
Kataelle. *This monster is, perhaps, the 
most horrific on canvas, after the dragon 
ef Raffaclle, now in the Napoleon Mu- 
eview of New Musicd®Publications: 
[March f, 
seum, at Paris; but in choice of subject, 
and in finishing, has his rival beaten hin, 
Dawe has wisely chosen his subject from 
Nature’ and Britannia’s favourite son, 
his Imogen is as charming as imagination 
can suggest ; the surrounding spectators 
adinirably erouped, the landscape well 
contrived, and the whole finished just to 
such a point, as not to destroy grandeur 
of style. 
In the class of familiar life, the supe- 
rority of mind is due to Sharp, and of 
finishing to Mulready. The mechanism 
of the art cannot be carried farther than 
the furniture and parts of the latter's 
carpenter's shop, It is merely a shop, 
kitchen, and- some figures; no story is 
told; no action is expressed. Sharp’s 
music master, on the contrary, is. all ac- 
tion, all mind; the foot of the boy and 
the finger of the master are both in uni- 
son; their eyes.and attention are direct- 
ed te the same object, und the archness 
of the female stopping her ears from the 
dull monotony of a juvenile learner of 
the violin, is wit—it is ‘* true humour tu 
advantage dressed ;” the society is too 
refined for low humour. It combines 
the excellencies without the grosspess of 
the Dutch school, from which may the 
litany of the British school ever be, 
‘‘ Good Lord deliver us.” . Every true 
lover of art will be pleased to hear that 
Mr. T. Hope has purchased this beauti- 
ful picture for 100 guineas. 
Of the landscapes less shall be said, 
as they possess a lower degree of excel- 
lence, as operations of the mental powers, 
than the two foregoing classes. They are 
evel. more on a par than those, but the 
promising appearance of such a youth as 
Linnell deserved, and has obtained, its 
just reward ; however, Chalon’s land 
scape must not be forgotten as one of the 
best ia the room. 
At the request of several Correspon- 
dents, we shall, in future, give notice of 
Fiewits ze sales of works of Hae and there= 
jore solicit information on that head. 
REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
a 
Three Quartetts for two Vislins, 2 Tenor and 
Violoncello. Composed and dedicated to. His 
Excellency Count Rasoumeffsky, Privy Coun- 
sellor to His Mujesty the Emperor of Russia, 
by Louis Van Breethoven, Esq. 
HESE learned, highly - ingenious, 
~ and valuable Quartetts, abeund in 
original and bold ideas. Lovers, how- 
ever, as we profess ourselves to be of sci- 
ence and sound theory, we must in candur 
’ 
say, that this great master sometimes in= 
dulges too far in chromatic and fai-fetch- 
ed CratishS'l in his melody, and evinces 
in the almost constantly elabérate dis- 
position of his parts, a determination to 
be original, even at the expence too often 
of being also crude, quaint, and dissonant. 
In saying this, however, we do not suffer 
ourselves to lose sight of Mr. Breethoven’s 
high pretension to our commendation as 
a COm-= 
