, The leading Magazines are not pictorial this month, excepting
Fraser, who has a pen and ink sketch of H000-the Lion of the town. The Shepherd is made a stalwart chiel, some six feet high in his Hoby- shaped Wellington boots ; and he wears his plaid twisted round his shoulders over a coat that Nugee need not blush to father.
The Library of the."'ine Arts, in pursuance of its plan of giving the portraits of painters, &e. has this month two, illustrating memoirs of the persons,-one of R. M. ,PAYE, a forgotten though talented artist of the old school, which forms the first of a series of papers of "Neglected Biography ;" the other of poor LIVERSEEGE, who died two or three weeks ago, just as his genius was beginning to develop its powers. This promising young artist painted small pictures illustrative of novels and dramas, with considerable skill of execution, and a great deal of cha- racter. We shall take the opportunity of doing justice to his merits, which will be afforded us at the opening next week of the Gallery of the British Institution in Pall Mall ; where, we are informed, one or two of his latest works will be exhibited.
The Union Magazine presents us with a formidable and faithful like- ness of Colonel Jones, looking somewhat aristocratical, and positively too handsome for the "Radical" of the Times. The caricature wood- cut of the physiognomy of the gallant Colonel, which glared at us from 'A, 7 every hoard and blank-wall in the metropolis, needed the counteracting Zpower of WivELL's pencil to remove the impression made by that
• zraphic libel. La Belle Assemblie is adorned with an unaffectedly simple and pleas-
• ing portrait of Lady W. Montagu, very delicately engraved by DEAN, from a chaste and beautiful miniature by W. C. Ross. There is a charm of gentleness in the picture, which bespeaks the amiableness of the origirud. • The Royal Lady's is embellished with ivslight but spirited chalk en- ' graving, by FRY, of "The Girl and Dog ".of Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS, and a coloured engraving of a new tulip--baptized "the Princess Victoria." This is a pretty and appropriate 'addition to the attractions of a Lady's Magazine.
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