Mr. BROMLEY has likewise engraved in a remarkably chaste and
delicate style, and with a nice feeling for the beauty of the original pic- ture, BOXALL'S " Cordelia Receiving the News of Lear's Sickness." The artist has sought to portray the character of Cordelia, and her ex- pression as described in the following passage: - " O ! then it touched her. •
But not to rage : patience and pity strove Which should express her goodliest."
That he has not succeeded, is, we think, owing to his mixing up too much of the pomp and circumstance of regality with Cordelia's charac- ter. Her grief is gentle, but it is not deep ; and it is manifested in a too formal (we will not say an affected) manner. The genuineness and sincerity of Cordelia's nature would have made her quite forget her queenly dignity at such a moment ; and bad the artist so represented her, the regal state would have heightened the effect of her sorrow. As it is, she is a graceful sort of Tragedy Queen enthroned-ELLEN TREE in Mrs. SIMKINS'S robes as the Tragic Muse: indeed, we are too much reminded of Sir JosnuA's famous portrait.
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