HERBERT'S picture of " Guilt and Innocence " — the first work
that showed his talent in design—has been engraved in mezzotint by EGAN. Two French girls have brought their offerings to the Virgin : one, a simple peasant girl, lays a posy at the feet of the image, and offers up a prayer with a face of artless, confiding innocence the other, in an agony of contrition, has flung down a box of trinkets, the wages of her guilt ; her face is buried in her hands—the burning blush of shame is hid by them. The story is forcibly and distinctly told; and the moral is vividly conveyed—not the less so that the means are obvious. The engraving is sufficiently faithful and effective ; though the flesh tints are not equal in delicacy and transparency to the finest works in this style: the deficiency is most evident in the foreshortening of the shoulders of the stooping girl—E1 most difficult piece of drawing for painter as well as engraver. This print is calculated for that extensive popu- larity, which it well deserves. •
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