830 
They do not, however, with it to be in- 
ferred, that any part, however flightly 
treated, has been negleéted; or lett 
through ignorance to the imagination of 
the beholders ; neither do they claim in- 
dulgence for defects, which ought not to 
exift, Their intention is to prepare the 
public for finding that fecondary, which is 
generally made principal, fer it is much 
eafier to give a figure its true drefs, than 
its appropriate character ; a knowledge of 
which cannot be obtained without an in- 
timate acquaintance, and long refidence 
among them. By this work, an Englith- 
man may form avery tolerable idea of 
their boyifh amufements, domeftic ha- 
bits, local cuftoms, and manly exercifes, 
from the cradle to the grave. The etch- 
ings are in an excellent ftyle, have every 
appearance of tinted drawings, and are 
generally. picturefque, {pirited and charac- 
teriftic, and coloured f.om nature, with 
great tafte. 
The Dance of Death, painted by Hans Holbein, 
and engraved by W. Hollar. Printed for 7. 
Harding, St. ‘fames’s Street. 
Of the indefatigable and admired Wen- 
feflaus Hollar, Mr. Walpole remarked, 
. that his largeft prints are indifferent ; the 
nearer his works approach to want a mag- 
nifying glafs, the nearer they approach to 
perfeétion. The fame writer juftly ob- 
ferves, in his anecdotes of painting, that 
in the prints which Hollar has given of 
Holbein’s Death's Dance, there are groupes’ 
of figures, and a richnefs of Fancy and 
invention, peculiar to himfelf. Every 
fubje&t is varied and adorned with build- 
ings and habits of the times, which he 
had the fingular art of making pittu- 
refque. The thirty-two original prints here 
mentioned, with Hollar’s portrait of him- 
felf and Holbein, are introduced in this 
yolume, which to the antiquary, con- 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
(Nov. 
noiffeur, and man of tafe, muf be extreme= 
ly interefting. Mr. Harding, to accom. 
modate all defcriptions of purchafers, has 
publifhed it in quarto at 21s. in large 
paper octavo, res. and fmall, 10s. 6d. 
The Waterfall, engraved by Samuel Middiman, 
Jrom a Landfcape painted by Zuccarelli, for 
Lord Bute, expreffly for the Luton Colleéion, 
aucere itis now placed. Publifbed for Meffis. 
F. and F. Boydeil, Price 1cs. 6d. 
Previous to the time that Alderman 
Boydell publifhed Woollet’s Niobe, Ceyx 
and Alcygne, Celadon and Amelia, &c. 
the Englith {chool of engraving was held 
in very low eftimation, and immenfe fums 
paid for French prints imported into this 
country. Thefe, and fome other prints, 
changed the current of commerce in thefe 
articles, and fince that time Englifh prints 
have been exported to the Continent to a 
much larger amount. To the above en- 
gravings, this very beautiful print of The 
Waterfall is intended as a companion, and 
“it is worthy of being thus affociated ; and 
being put at the fame price, may be claff- 
ed as one of the cheapeft prints that has 
been publifhed for many years. 
From the proprietors of the exhibition 
of ancient ftained glafs in Pallmall, Lord 
Carlifle has recently publifhed a mof fu- 
perb window, originally placed in the 
church of St. John, at Rouen, in Nore - 
mandy. The fubject is, The Viftation, 
from Sebaftian del Piombo. It is about 
eight feet fquare, and is executed with 
wonderful force and brilliancy. The de- 
fign is grand, fimple, and interefting.. 
We have been informed that it coft Lord 
Carlifle three hundred and fixty guineas, ~ 
and that he has prefented it to York 
Minfter, to which place Mr. Stevenfon, 
the late proprietor, is gone to fuperintend 
the erection of it. 
VARIETIES, Lirzrary AnD PHiILosopHICAL, 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
©,* Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
el - 
HE foundation of a new building at 
the Britifh Mufeum has been jué laid; 
the principal apartment -of which will be 
entirely devoted to antiquities. We under- 
ftand the great Sarcophagus from Alexan- 
dria will be placed on four arches ; and in 
different parts of the fame room the other 
monuments from Egypt. It will com- 
municate with the fouth wing of the pre- 
fent ftructure, but we believe it is not 
‘yet fettled whether the fame ftyle of archi- 
tecture will be followed. The Museum, 
as it now flands, refts upon brick arches; ~ 
and being originally intended only for.a_ 
private dwelling, cannot be expected to 
be fo durable as a building folely erefted » 
for a national repofitory., 
The manufcript of the third volume of 
the Lire of GENERAL WASHINGTON has 
been received in London, and the quarto 
edition will make its appearance about 
the middle of November. The anxiety 
with which each fucceeding volume of — 
this work ig expected, and the wide cir- 
culation 
