FINE ARTS.
TO THE ,EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. •
. Edinburgh, 30th October 13.3. Sue—Having been for some Weeks past in Scotland on a professional tour, it happened that I only yesterday read your observations upon the prints in the re-ently-pillilished Literary Souvenir. • I have some recollection of the design you allude to as bearing my name, and can have no doubt of the perfect justice of your remarks : I beg to say, however, that the subject in question was one of a series of slight and hasty sketches, executed several years ago, and never thought of by me as fit for publication. I cannot but regret, both for his sake mid my own, that the editor of the Literary Souvenir should have placed so worthless a trifle in his very respectable work ; and that I should have received no notice of his intentions even, timely enough, by touching on a proof, to have mitigated its absurditie'S. • I am, Sir, your very -obedient servant,
• GEoacE CArrERMOLE. . [This letter ought to have appeared last week, but it came too late for our first edition.]
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