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following specimen of translation is from Deinhardstein's 'Bild der Danae.' The principal characters are the great painter, Salvator Rosa, and the surgeon, Bernardo Ravienna, not yet known as a painter, who has practised his art in secret and completed his picture of Danae, which obtains the enthusiastic admiration of Salvator, and the prize in the competition of the Painting Academy of St Carlo, thus securing to him the hand of his lady-love Laura, ward of Calmari, director of the Academy. The whole is rendered with remarkable spirit and fidelity, but the story might perhaps not have enough of interest for English readers to justify its being published entire.