3 JULY 1830, Page 20

NOTICE 'PO ARTISTS AND PUBLISHERS.

THE SPECTATOR, its its critical capacity of Connoisseur of Fine Arts, has this year made a point of noticing .every new print of merit, ns it appeared, without waiting for an impression to be sent for that purpose. It has thus sometimes happened, that it print has beep received after it had been noticed ; and this has been the case with Mr. Co on txs's beau- tiful mezzotint of Mr. Cnoxcit, from LAWRENCE; which we have had more than once occasion to ttllude to in terms of the highest praise. The SPECTATOR, we believe, is the only journal where prints are criticised regularly on their publication ; and this will account for our occasionally passing over a trifling or inferior production, which may have beeir seat to us ; because, as we are guided entirely by the claims of the works to notice, in our selectilm of them for remark, we have not allieved our judgment to be influenced, by a graphic bribe, to speak well of a work wl>ich, butt for the cireu instance of its being sent to us, would not have !peon thought deserving of particular remark. It is with reluctance that we pass over unnoticed, in some way, any print of which the conlplimcnt is made us of sending a copy for icspection ; hut it nmst be obvious that we cannot find space to notice caricature skeiches,—such, for i ustanee, as a recent one in ridicule of the "annual bugbear" of 31ail Dogs. These works are better estimated by the laugh of the gaping. "looker-on,'' than the attentive regard of the " Spectator."