Retrospect of Domestic Literature—Fine Arts. 
The study of Architecture, so much 
neglected. as a study accessary to paint- 
ing, here finds an able advocate in its 
application to painting, and utility as a. 
source of dignified and appropriate orna- 
ment. 
és Nor deems the Muse mispent the stu- 
dious hour 
Devoted to her stately sister’s power: 
Supplies of ornament and use she brings 
Proud fanes for gods, and palaces for kings: 
To noblest acts a suited scene provides, 
And o’er the back ground’s gorgeous stores 
presides. : 
When Taste unfolds the landscape, by her 
aid, : 
‘The temple dignifies the rural shade 
Majestic ruins rise on canvas plains, 
To prove lier splendours in their’proud re- 
mains 5 is 
Athens:new glories from her hand derives, 
And Rome in marble majesty revives. 
Their beads in clouds memorial columns 
hide, ; 
And heroes ’neath triumphant arches ride. 
Canjo 2, v. 89 to 102. 
The address to the Spirit of ancient 
Greece, with which the second canto 
finishes, expressive of the advantages 
which the modern world has derived from 
her genius, illustrative of the lessons 
which we have drawn ftom her wisdom; 
the refinement we owe to her taste, and 
the examples which she has left us in her 
virtues, is one of the finest specimens of 
the sublime in modern poetry; the whole 
is too long for insertion; but the apos- 
trophe at the commencement contains 
‘such a true picture of this majestic spirit 
that it needs no apology for detaching it 
from its parent stock. 
66 Hail; awful shade! that o’er the mould- 
*ring-urn 
‘Of thy departed greatness loy’st to mourn ; 
Deploring deep the waste, where once un- 
furl’d 
Thy ensigns glitter’d o’er a wond’riag world 5 
Spirit of Ancient Greece! whose form sub- 
lime, anh 
Gigantic striding, walks the waves of T'fme.” 
We are sorry that our limits oblige us 
to close this interesting book: we: shall 
however make one more extract, of the 
character of Raphael, froin the list of the 
worthies of the Roman schoo). 
<¢ Swift as the comet cleaves the etherial 
Way: — a 
As bright his lustre, and>as brief his day, 
Urbine rising tothe rapturedeye,  - 
Appeared, and blazed, and vanished from 
the sky. zi 
~ Monarch of art! in whose august domains, 
Colleagued with Genius, soundest Judgment 
xeigns 5 
; 
66g 
Simplicity prevails without pretence, 
_ And Fancy sports within the bounds of Sense, 
By Nature’s hand with liberal bounty grac’d, 
And proudly fashion’d for the throne of. 
‘ Taste, 
Before his age he sprang to painting’s prima, 
And forc’d his tardy fruits from ripening 
Time. 
*T was his to choose the nobler end of Art, 
And charm the eye, subservient to the heart; 
To strike the chords of sentiment—=to trace _ 
The form of dignity-—the flow of grace; 
The Passion’s Protean empire to contreul, . 
And wield Expression’ssceptre o’er the soul. ” 
Whate’er of life he touch’d, of youth or age, 
The pious Saint, or philosophic Sage; 
Whether, impressive in the bold design, 
‘The rapt Apostie pour the word divine ; 
Or bright. on Tabor’s summit to the skies 
The God in full transfigured glory rise :—= 
Whate’er the cast of character, his hand- 
Has all the moulds of Genius at command, 
To ature true, can each strone trait ime 
pe) 
part, 
And stamp with Taste the sterling ere of 
Art. 
Cunto 3, v. 169 to 1966 
In short, we know net which to com- 
mend, the ease and flow of his versifi- 
cation, the satirical vein ot pleasantry 
with which he has lashed some of the 
most/prevalent vices of art, or the depth, 
learning, and penetration, of the notes. 
It isa book that no painter should be, 
and no man of taste would be, withoat. 
Ina *“Treatise of the Properties of 
Arches, and their. Abutment Piers, con= 
taining Propositions for describing Ges~ 
metrically the Catenaria, and the Extra- 
dosses of all Curves, so that their several 
Parts and their Piers may equiliorate ; 
also concerning Bridges, and the Fiying 
Butiresses of Cathedrals,” by Samuet 
Wake, Architect, we fad much infor- 
mation. Mr, Ware has investigated the 
subject with considerable penetration, 
and ably discussed this important branch 
of civil architecture. He has very pro- 
perly commenced with a table of intro- 
ductory definitions and remarks, illus- 
trated by plates, by which method he 
~ has. rendered his’ book self-interpreting, 
and prevents any misunderstandiny of 
technical terms. He has added, as illuse 
trations of the positions he has taken, 
and which he ably supports, sections 
of Trimty Church, Ely; King’s Goilege 
Chapel, Cambridge; Westminster Ab- 
bey ; Salisbury, Ely, Lincoln, York, and 
Peterborough Cathedrals. The princi- 
pal novelty.in this work is a discovery of 
some importance; a simple mode of de- 
scribing the catenaria “geometrically ; 
which difficulty Mr. Ware has surmounted, 
after 
