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INTRODUCTION.

Ostez Venus, et son filz Cupido,Ostez Heleine, et Phyllis, et Dido,Ostez du tout fables et poesies ;Et receuez meilleures fantasies.

Mettez au lieu, et soyent uoz chambres ceinctesDes dictz sacrez, et des histoires sainctes,Telles que sont celles que uoyez cyEn ce liuret. Et si faites ainsi,Grandz et petis, les ieunes et les uieulx,Auront plaisir, et au coeur et au yeulx.

Plus que moms.

On casting even a cursory view over the graphic atti ac-tions of this volume, we are quickly impressed with a senseof the general tone of character, or of merit, of the whole :wishing however that those subjects, almost purely archi-tectural, or relating to the ceremonies or interior of theTemple, had been omitted. Still they might have theirportion of instruction for youth. Of the subjects, purelyand professedly historical, I would take leave to recommendthe mode of treatment of those of Abraham entertainingthe two Angels (No. 3), Moses explaining and enforcing theprecepts of the Almighty (No. 26), Nathan and David (No.39), Abishag and David (No. 42), Hiram and Solomon (No.43), the Genealogy of Adam (No. 50), almost the whole of theHistory of Job (No. 61), Daniel (No. 77), Ho sea (No. 79),Amos and Jonas (Nos. 81, 82), Tobit (No. 85), as particularlydeserving of admiration. Perhaps, generally speaking, thefigures are too short and robust, and the heads in severalinstances too large : but there is a firmness, a strength, andbreadth of effect about the whole, which pronounce, in aninstant, that they are the productions of no ordinarypencil. Many of the heads, considered apart, are full orgrandeur of expression. At Nos. 65, 66, two subjects, ofa very opposite character, follow each other :—the one,the Fool with a set of children denying their Maker (Ps.liii.); the other, the very bold embodying of the Psalmist's