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'f O This Class Of Subjects Wissie's Genius Confines His

powers, and to it, therefore, he should limit their exercise. Ile represents historic scenes as if they were mere dry Nets or anecdotes, lowering the dig- nity to they are......

The Mascarenhas.

THE scene of this romance is laid in India, during the time of Aurungzcbe, at a period when the Portuguese power was de- clining and that of the Mahrattas on the rise. The......

Fine Arts.

GOSSIP OF THE Woitl.1) OF ART. TIIERE is something so revolting in the wilful destruction of a work of art, even of the humblest kind, that nothing but a malicious pur- pose on......