ginal; and the attitude also possessing the same true character. ways pleasing, from the tone of nature which pervades them. Lady Bell has some very tasteful spe- We have not space to notice in our cimens of her skill; Mr. Stevens's present Number the drawings, enand Mr. Taylor's Birds are well gravings, miniatures, and enamels; drawn; Mr. G. Vincent's landscapes but we can venture, from our hasty are excellent; Mr. Christmas's Una glance, to recommend them to pubis very poetical; Mr. Burnet's Cattle lic attention. Many of them are exeand Figures is a clear and well-fi- cuted by young artists, who are like nished painting; Mr. Rippengille's ly, from these specimens, to become Cross-examining the Witness is an more generally known, and if patronexcellent peep in panoramic minia- age attend merit, more fully appreture into the bustle and diversified ciated by the opportunity thus afcharacter of a county-court during forded them by this society of attractthe sittings for business; Mr. Stark's ing the notice of the lovers of the landscapes are invariably beautiful; fine arts. It is gratifying to see the Mr. Ingalton has some good views arts thus becoming daily more widenear Windsor; Mr. Carse's Valentine ly diffused; for we are not of the is comic: but we must break off re- number who are afraid, that the luctantly from this department of the general desire for public exhibitions Exhibition. will multiply painters, rather than adIn sculpture, the principal contri-vance the real station of the grabutors for busts are Mr. Rossi, Mr. phic art. We apprehend that the Garrard, Mr. Scoular (who has also public are not so impassioned for the an historical group very well execut-arts as to purchase pictures merely ed), Mr. Henning (who has also some because they are painted: the ars degood designs), Mr. Gahagan, and lineandi will still remain in the hands two or three other artists. Mr. C. of those who have the principal meRossi, R. A. has a good model for a rit; and those who are, according to statue of the late Mr. Benjamin Shakspeare's designation of medioWest, to be placed, according to the crity, "of no mark or likelihood," must catalogue, in St. Paul's Cathedral. still be content to retain their own It is a full-length, in a modern dress, pictures for their pains; a sufficient the features bearing an exact resem- discouragement for the growth of im blance to those of the venerable ori-becility. GRECIAN GALLERY. AN Exhibition-room under this painted expressly for the late Emname has just been opened in the press Josephine, for the grand galleHaymarket, for the purpose of ex-ry of the palace of Fontainbleau. It hibiting the Chevalier van Brée's large picture of the Sacrifice of the Virgins. The chevalier is historical portrait-painter to the King of Holland. This picture measures 27 feet by 20, and is said to have been represents the celebrated classical story of the Athenian victims destined to be devoured by the monster Minotaur, and Theseus offering himself as their deliverer; and is a very fine composition of an eminent foreign grouping is very skilfully managed, the form and expression of the figures well contrasted, and the Grecian outlines are finely marked. It is a fine historical production, upon the details of which we should dwell with pleasure, did the time of the Exhibition at the close of the month enable us to do so, without interfer artist. The figure of King Ægeus, who is in the act of announcing to the wretched victims their impending fate, to appease the wrath of the King of Crete, is solemn and dignified, and the beauty and grief of the surrounding objects are finely expressed. At one extremity of the picture the figure of Theseus, firm, bold, and determined, is admirablying with our previous arrangements. portrayed. The arrangement of the FASHIONS. LONDON FASHIONS. MORNING DRESS. the border of Buckinghamshire lace, DRESS of jaconot muslin: the cor- set on plain in front, and a little full sage made high and very full; the round the slashes of the cap, which fulness longitudinally and regularly are two on each side, where bows of arranged by five bands, each formed amber and lilac gauze ribbon are inof four or five small cords or bob- troduced. The crown is circular, bins, and edged on each side with and ornamented with a narrow rounarrow work: two of the bands ter-leau of amber satin and lace. Amminate at the arm; the next widen | ber-colour corded silk shoes. DINNER DRESS. from the centre of the waist, and extend over the shoulder, where they turn and meet about half way down Dress of pale blue twilled sarsthe back. The sleeve is of an easy net: the corsage cut bias, and made fulness: the epaulette slashed, and to fit the shape: the front simply interlaced with amber-colour ribbon; ornamented with four satin bands, between is a row of quadrangular forming a stomacher, and a satin bouffants. The cuff is neatly trim- band and tucker of fine blond round med with a bobbined band and work- the bust. The sleeve is short and ed ruffle, and an ornament to corre- full, the fulness tastefully arranged spond with the trimming of the skirt, in festoons by four satin buttons, equiwhich has a deep wreath of a fanci- distant from each other: a little above ful and novel form, apparently con- the satin band that goes round the fined to the dress by entwining an arm, on the shoulder, is a full-blown amber-colour ribbon, which forms satin rose, with palmated satin leaves the lower part into triangles: the up- pending half way down the sleeve: per becomes more pointed, and ex- broad satin band round the waist, tends transversely about a quarter of with a rose and palmated leaves pena yard: the whole is corded, and dant behind. The skirt has an eletrimmed with narrow work. Worked gant satin border of roses surmountmuslin ruff to correspond, drawn withed with leaves, arranged in the form gauze ribbon. Cap of sprigged net; of the lotus, and united by festoons; beneath is a broad satin rouleau. || trich feathers, placed on the right side. Richly embroidered scolloped scarf of Urling's lace. Necklace and ear-rings of turquoise. Long white gloves; white satin shoes. White crepe lisse dress hat; the brim very full and rather broad, a little turned upwards all round, and ornamented with a garland of damask roses and two long white os FASHIONABLE FURNITURE. ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK. THE clock represented in our engraving, of a new and elegant shape, 13 inches in diameter and 25 in height, stands covered with a glass bell upon a handsome pedestal about 3 feet high, the whole forming a very useful and tasteful ornament for a drawing-room or library. The merit of the invention consists in its combining and exhibiting at one view the state of the world, as acted upon in the progress of time by the diurnal and annual revolution of the heavenly bodies immediately connected with our globe, according to the Copernican system; shewing, at the same time, the hours and the corresponding position of those bodies in their respective orbits. This result is obtained as follows: To the clock is annexed a complicated, and at the same time a simply and beautifully executed kind of orrery, which is put in motion by the clock, and as they perform together their several motions, they shew1. The division of the hour; 2. The hour of the day; 3. The day of the week; 4. The day of the month; 5. The month of the year; 6. The degree and sign of the zodiac; 7. The diurnal rotation of the earth upon its axis, producing the alternations of day and night for the different countries of the globe; 8. The gradual progress of the earth in its annual revolution round the sun, combined with its elliptical movement, which causes it to approach to, and recede from, the sun according to the seasons; 9. The diurnal and annual rotation and elliptical motion of the moon round the earth as its satellite, with its phases, indicating at the same time its age; and, 10. By means of a revolving dial placed above the globe, the true time, and also (at will) the hour of the day or night, in any given part of the world. To add to the utility of this invention, it is so contrived that, by slightly altering the position of a single wheel, the orrery is rendered independent of the clock, and may then be put in motion with any degree of celerity by a handle, for the purpose of demonstration, as long and as often as it is found necessary or thought proper; after which it is sufficient to give to the handle a retrograde motion, until the hand of the zodiacdial is brought back to the proper day of the month, and to replace the connecting wheel, in order to re-establish the action of the clock upon the orrery as before. Taken thus singly, the orrery will be found to give a most satisfactory practical illustration of the elements of cosmography and geography, by rendering perceptible those motions which, in their joint operation with the clock, are too slow to be sensible to the eye. The progression of the common | contrivance reflect great credit on and leap year points out the period at which the orrery must be wound up, which occurs only once in four years. the skill of the inventor, Mr. Raingo, watchmaker, of Paris, who has obtained a patent from the French government for the manufacture of The ingenuity and utility of this it. INTELLIGENCE, LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, &c. A TRANSLATION of Schiller's ballad entitled Fridolin, or the Road to the IronFoundry, by Mr. J. P. Collier, author of "The Poetical Decameron," is just ready for publication. It is handsomely printed in 4to. and illustrated by eight engravings in outline, beautifully executed by Henry Moses, from the masterly designs of Retsch, whose illustrations of Göthe's "Faustus" have rendered his name deservedly popular in this country. The original German is printed with the translation, on opposite pages, and to the piece are subjoined some explanatory remarks on the designs by the translator. The Rev. James Beresford has in the press, The Cross and the Crescent, an heroic metrical romance, founded on Madame Cottin's "Matilde." R. A. with some account of his life, and remarks on the style of his landscapes; arranged by T. Wright, Esq. It will be illustrated with plates. Mr. Bowdler is preparing for publication, Gibbon's History of the Fall and Decline of the Roman Empire, adapted for families and young persons, by the omis sion of objectionable passages. Mrs. Frances Parke will shortly publish a volume, entitled Domestic Duties, containing instructions to young married ladies on the management of their households, and the regulation of their conduct in the various relations and duties of married life. Mr. A. Skottowe is engaged on a Life of Shakspeare, with essays on the originality of the dramatic plots and characMr. Wiffin has completed his transla-ters, and on the ancient theatres and thetion of Tasso, and it is in a state of great atrical usages, in an 8vo. volume. forwardness at the press. The Exhibition of Painters in WaterColours, which is at this time open to the public, shall receive due notice in our next Number. Poetry. STILL dost thou flow, thou sullen stream, Printed by L. Harrison, 373, Strand. |