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to have been intended to produce an 
effect like that of the simplest kind of 
monochromatic painting, when seen from 
their proper point of sight; which effect 
must have been extremely light and ele- 
gant. The relicf in the metopes is much 
higher, so as to exhibit the figures nearly 
complete; and the details are more ac- 
curately and elaborately made out: but 
they are so different in their degrees of 
merit, as to be evidently the works of 
many different persons, some of whom 
would not have been entitled to the rank 
of artists in a much less cultivated and 
fastidious age.” 
The account of the Roman period of 
sculpture is intermixed with a cursory 
view of the real principles of Roman po- 
lity, and the nature and extent of its in- 
fluence on other natiens.. - 
The plates which accompany this 
work, are no less than’ seventy-five in 
number, exclusive of vignettes: many 
of them in the best styles of the best 
artists. Among those which are more 
peculiarly adapted to attract notice are, 
the head of Osiris, a fragment of a sta- 
tue in green basaltes; a marble head, 
from the collection of the marquis of 
Lansdowne; the side view of a colossal 
head of Hercules, from the Townleian 
collection, now at the British Museum, 
found in the ruins of Hadrian’s Villa, at 
Tivoli; Hercules taming the-hind, from 
the same collection; a bas-relief of one 
of the Dioscur; the figure of an Aliptes 
or Anointer, from the museum ot Mr, 
R. P.. Knight; a colossal head of Mi- 
nerva; the Minerva from Mr. T. Hope’s 
collection; Hygeia, from the same col- 
lection; the ancient copy of the Disco- 
bolus of Myro; the bronze figure of Ju- 
piter, from Mr, Knight’s collection; the 
marble Hercules, in the marquis of Lans- 
downe’s; the figure of Venus or Dione, 
formerly belonging to Mr. Townley; 
the head of Mercury; the head of one of 
the Homeric heroes, from the earl of 
Egremont’s collection; a pantheic bust 
of the mystic Bacchus; and a*figure of 
Serapis, from Mr. Knigit’s. 
A specimen of the descriptions which 
accompany each plate, may be given.in 
that of plate 40, illustrating the Hercules 
belonging to the jate marquis of Lans- 
downe. 
Plate 40.— This statue was found 
with the Discobolus, plate 29. in the 
neighbourhood of Rome; and the late 
Mr.-Townley, to whom the choice of 
them was inmediately offered, was iv- 
duced, by the drawing and description 
sent to him, to prefer the latter; though | 
when he saw them, he instantly changed 
his opinion; this Hercules being, with 
the exception of the Pan or Faun, at 
Holkham, incomparably the finest male 
figure that has ever come into this coun- 
try, and one of the finest that has 
hitherto been discovered. It has also 
the great advantage of being quite entire, 
except some splinters of the club, and 
the part of the mght leg between the 
transverse dotted lines in the print, The 
head has never been off; the hair and 
features, even to the point of the nose, 
so seldom preserved, are unbroken, and 
the lion’s'skin is its own, Parts of the 
surface of tlie body are indeed corroded, 
but not. so as to injure in any degree the 
effect of the whole, which is. peculiarly 
impressive and imposing; it being placed 
in a gallery. worthy of it, and in the most 
advantageous light possible; which has 
enabled the artist, who drew and e):. 
graved it, to produce a print so accurate 
and complete, as to render alldescription 
superfluous. We know of no very fine 
statue, of which so faithful and adequate 
a representation has been given to the 
public.” 
In the front of the class of 
Bee POETRY i 
we place ‘* The Lady of the Lake,” 
by Mr. Water Scorr. The scene of 
this poem is laid chiefly in the vicinity of 
Loh-katrine, in the Western Highlands 
of Perthshire. The time of action 
includes six days, and the transactions of 
each day occupy acanto. ‘The following 
are the titles of the different cantos. 
I. The Chase. Il. The Island. < II. 
The Gathering. IV. The Prophecy: 
V. The Combat. VI. The Guard 
Room. hive 
Our first specimen. shall be from the 
fifteenth stanza of the first canto : 
‘* From the steep promontory gazed 
The stranger; raptur’d and amazed, 
And, ¢ What a scene were here,’ he cried, 
‘For princely pomp and churchman’s 
pride ; t 
On this bold brow, a lordly tower ; 
In that soft vale, a lady’s bower ; 
On yonder meadow, far away, 
The turrets of a cloister grey ; 
How blithely might the bugle horn 
Chide, on che lake, the lingering inorn! 
‘How sweet, at eve, the tover’slute 
Chime, when the groves were still and 
mute ! 
And, when the midnight moon did lave 
Her torehead in the silver wave, 
tow 
