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Rh means of etting at work the reader’s fancy, he diplays every thing in its native implicity; and for want of a little eaonable concealment detroys the whole effect of his exhibition.—

The tyle of your pictureque artits is very different. Yorick, for intance, by a few careles cratches, as they would eem, often goes beyond the mot finihed piece of another mater. At the lightet of his pathetic touches the tender-hearted diolve away in orrow. The very lipper of his fille de chambre is enough to et an inflammable imagination all on fire. The foolih fat cullion meanwhile tares unconcerned, even at the ketch of Maria, and wonders what the by-tanders can find in the crawl.

Another favourite of the preent hour works after a different fahion. He empties plenty of lamp-black into his pot of rancid oil, whiks it furiouly about, oaks his bruh thoroughly, dahes it dripping wet upon the canvas, crubs away till he becomes faint—and at length, when he exhibits his portrait, the connoieurs laugh in their leeves, to find that the has varnihed thoe whom he only deigned to blacken.

Our artit, who had to draw as well for the multitude as their betters, is plainer than the one, and les dahing than the other. Of neceity his portraits may be more antiquated and uncouth than thoe of many other maters. But the features of our, ancetors, in pite of their ruffs and farthingales, are human features. The fahion of dres prevailing in different nations, Rh