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London, England, 1823-03-31 00:00:00

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pages, with .
no moie than twopence.
ample encouragement. It is by works of cheap and
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deavours of t? infidel and leveller are mast iuteryio
bo la:lined. Societies of Suppression, and Societies,
kiProsecution, may put down and punish, but they
never do the thousandth part of the good whicbi
a counteracting press, employed in the diffusion
good principles and useful information, is capable
Of accomplishing.

...hopn the Fine Att s in this
indebted, is the publisher of a Imago
Monsieur L. MasmoN, waged in
Muter and Pupil; the Publics-
great approbation upon the Contia
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, elegant accompteme.....-
-eacately feminine In the acquirement, that it is
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tether antteountable it has hot become an irdispensable branch
of female edeeation. What can be more pleaiing than preserving
ilsbellablateoes of those who have been made dear to us by acet-
rieotal occurrences, or, from a familiar intercourse, 'where day,
after day the amiable are evinciug their kindness of heart by the
Iroquent interchartgesof civilities? To be severed from such coin-
pillions is like being 'necked upon some dreary Wand, where
lb, stillness of solitude has not been broken by the voice of
limedebip or the busy hum of. civilisation. With what pleasure
41. *Marti to the object rendered dear by lengthened and har-
inenksus intimacy; to relate little adventures as they rri,e on a
sodden thought or to disburthen the mind of au unfortuitoul
event. 'Perhaps the days of that being so dear to us have been
numbered, and, summoned to another and abetter world, leaving,
ritelancholy blank in the journal of our lives. Although the
Waved object will often assume a place in our thoughts, yet the
irecolkction of the features will become fainter as'the space of
date revolves. But when the representation of the object is
immediately exhibited to our view, taken perhaps at a• time
when health and suavity of temper had softened the countenance
to an almost angelic serenity, we become lost in pleasing re-
flections of the past.
Monsieur L. !daemon thus concludes his introductory letter
to Monsieur Marais'):—" AJy only ambition is to render eerzi
vice to young artists, and to answer to the extent of my ability,
the many applications which have been made to me by the ama-
teurs both of Paris and London : on this account I have ha
this Collection translated into English, in order that it may ap-
pear at the same period in both cities.
" The high and well merited reputation which you have ac-
quired in England, makes me particularly desirous of obtaining
your approbation • and the triendsbip that unites us has it:-
dueed me to dedicate to you a Work, written without design,
published without pretension, and to which, without having
foreseen it, I bud I have produced: something resembling -a
Preface."

It is written in the French manner, and people not accus-
tomed to the character of French composition, may consider it
too enthusiastic for the subject; but, then, we are not to forget
that we are indebted to this from the faithfulness of the transla-
tion. Upon the whole, we may conclude by saying, that the in-
structions are progressively laid down in an unaffected lucid
manner, interspersed with pleasing historical anecdotes and cri-
tiques upon the works of the most eminent painters ef the ancient
and modern school.

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