The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-29 00:00:00

NEW SERIAL WORK
Published by Charles Knight and Co., Ludgate-street, London.
THE PICTORIAL GALLERY OF ARTS.
To be completed in Twenty-four Monthly Parts, at One
ng each.

There is an exhibition in London, of great and deserved popularity,
whose somewhat learned name denotes its purpose—the Polytechnic
Institution. It is a repository of MANY Arts. There is another
establishment, which has another Greekish name of much higher
pretensions—by which we understand nothing more nor less than
EVERYTHING relating to art. This must indeed be a wonderful
exhibition, if its collections at all realise its title. For what is Art?
It is the practical application of knowledge to the production of all
things whatever that can administer to the uses of man—to the
humblest necessities of the body, to the highest gratifications of the
mind. The word Art, then, is all-comprehensive.
Bat what no exhibition of real processes and products can accom-
plish may be attained in a great degree by
" A PICTORIAL GALLERY OF ARTS."

By the aid of three or four thousand Engravings we can open to the
view the entire kingdom of Technical Skill, in all its more important
operations. We can exhibit man, in every region of the earth, la-
bouring, with more or less success, to surround himself with those
necessaries, comforts, and conveniences, which constitute tee ele-
ments of civilisation. We can show him going forward into the
higher range of arts, and surrounding his domestic and public life with
the attributes of Taste, and moving onward and onward till he reach
the highest development.of the prineples of Beauty. Here, again, is
another kingdom of art. Inseparably allied are these great divisions
of knowledge in practice—and when they are separated essentially in
men's minds, there can be no permanent success even for wkat is
ignorantly held to belong exclusively to the useful. But, though there
be this unity of object, yet, for the sake of convenient arrangement,
and for leading onward from the simpler to the higher productions of
technical skill, our Pictorial Gallery of Arts will have:two divisions.
The first will be devoted to what we have been accustomed to
call the Useful Arts ; the second to what in the same way we have
been accustomed to call the Fine Arts. But the union of all art will
be essentially kept in mind. The utility of our First Geller- is
manifest. But when we open nur Second Gallery of the Fine Arts,
and display our pictorial representations of Architecture. Sculpture,
and Paintinc, Ancient and Modern, we know that a familiarity with
the beautiful sculptures of antiquity, with the noble paintings of the
great modern schools, and with the glorious monuments of Grecian
and Middle-age architecture, must have an enduring effect up n the
manufacture of a Worcester tea-cup or a Paisley shawl. Our two
Galleries will be " a school of design" of no inconsiderable value, by
this union of the useful and ornamental. We cannot call our work a
Pantechnicon; hut it will be the most complete Polytechuicon ever
opened for public instruction and amusement.
The First Number of the Pictorial Gallery of Arts will be published
on the let of February, 1845.

FOURTEENTH EDITION of the SILENT FRIEND on Human
Frailty, with Coloured Engravings.

Jnst published, price 9s. 0., free by post (it; asealed envelope) 38.6 d..
THE SILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work on
the Infirmities of the Generative System in both sexes ; and
on the loss of the reproductive powers, with means of restoration.
The baneful erects of solitary indulgence, neglected syphilis symp-
toms, &c., are fully pointed out. Illustrated by Engravings; followed
by observations on Marriage, NT, ith plain directions for the removal of
certain disqualifications. By R. and L. PERRY anti Co., Consult ng
Snrgeons, London. Published by the Authors, an& may be had at
their residence,
19, BERNERSATREET, OXFORD-STREET.

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