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An illustrated edition of GRAY'S fine Ode, The Bard, has

been got up by Mr. JOHN MARTIN, the hibliopolist, in a style corre- sponding with his beautiful edition of GRAY'S Elegy ; but the wood engravings in this instance, instead of being designed by various artists, are, with the exception of Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS'S portrait of Mrs. SIDDONS as the Tragic Muse, wholly the produc- tion of the Honourable Mrs. JOHN TALBOT; who has herself drawn them on the wood. The subjects are well chosen, and va- rious—some dramatic, others scenic ; they are drawn with artist- like tact and cleverness, and engraved with extreme delicacy and sharpness.