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HE opening of the exhibition of the 
Royal Academy, forms an epoch 
in the annals of British Art. It af- 
fords the critic a scale, whereby to esti- 
mate the progress of the Fine Arts, and 
to measure the improvement or retrogra- 
dation of our native artists. 
The Fine Arts ofa nation are certainly 
the gratid criterion hy which a philoso- 
plier can judge of the progress of mental 
refinement ; and as perfectibility of that 
species of refinement assuages the horrors 
of barbarism and anarchy, and makes 
man more resemble what his great ar- 
chetype and creator intended him tu be; 
so a watchful eye towards the progress 
of the Fine Arts, is not the least useful 
ezre of a philosophical observer. ‘The 
business of thé present aides inf this 
departmegt of the Monthly: Magazine, 
shall be to point out whatis most worthy 
of attenticn in the present academical 
-exhibition ;—to select the beauties of 
established names ef well earned repu- 
tation; to call forth youthful merit; and 
to sivea correct summary of the increas- 
ed and 
Britis Scoot or tie Fing Arts; 
whose power and energy. “* has increased, 
is encreasing, and ought” not “ ¢0 be ain 
minished.” . 
This year’s exhibition is super lor to any 
that has been seen for many years; the 
great room, in- particular, beams with - 
more talent, and shews much improve- 
ment of the Briush schoul, in tone of 
colouring. So much perfection and just- 
ness of colouring perhaps, was never 
seen coalesced together in the walls ’ of 
the Royal Academy. 
Academical drawing, or knowledge of 
the luman figure, seems to be more at- 
tended to than formerly ; though not yet 
quite to the requisite degree. Certainly 
the junior artists, from whom expectation 
demanda 
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