7 NOVEMBER 1840, page 18

"portraits Of Public Characters."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR—I will not complain of your criticism in the Spectator of last Saturday, on my new book, Portraits of Public Characters, or Personal Sketches......

The Annual Exposure Of The Abortive Attempts Of Untaught...

to copy the pictures of the Old Masters, took place this week at the British Institution ; and, melancholy as has always been the sight of so much misemployed labour and time,......

Fine Ar,ts.

Mn. GRIFFITH, of Norwood, has been presented by a party of artists with a superb piece of plate, as a testimonial of his valuable and dis- interested services in promoting their......

The Glasgow Wellingtox Testimostal.

Mccu as we have become familiarized with jobbing and blundering in matters of taste, and submissive as the public has hitherto proved to glaring errors of judgment and......

Tile Ceo Ckataker—t Iiird Series.

THIS Volume is inferior in interest and attraction to its predeces- sors, partly from the difficulty of continuing a subject to fulfil the expectations of the reader, but still......