EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
The display of pictures this year is, we think, superior to that of last; . . . our eye caught the splendid hues of Tuasma's Italy, illustrative of that fine passage in Childe Harold, beginning, "Fair Italy! thou art the garden of the world " ; and we were rivettod as by a spell—there was no resisting the attraction; so we e'en sated our senses with its luxuriant richness. Let not the visitor who goes to the Exhibition between the hours of eleven or five expect to see this picture: we had no such vain imaginings, and, therefore, were "stirring with the lark " ; and as we looked out on the bright face of the laughing spring glistening in the morning sun, which tricked out with pure golden light her fresh green mantle of foliage, we thought of the fervid glow With which Turner's pencil would invest "the garden of the world." . . Mr. Constable has painted The Opening of Waterloo Bridge, from Whitehall Stake ; and it is a picture of great merit in parts; but someone has entirely spoiled the effect by sprinkling it all over with white paint, which has been smeared about to the utter ruin of the picture.
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