Martin's large oil pictures representing "The Last Judgment," "The Great
Day of Wrath," and "The Plains of Heaven," after being ex- hibited in nearly every place of importance in the kingdom, are now shown in Mr. Mabley's gallery, 143, Strand. They are well worth seeing once more if only to observe the extraordinary conceits it is possible for a painter of great imaginative faculty to be led into putting upon his can- vas. All the great and good of the earth are represented rising through the ground dressed "in their habits as they lived, ' and, per contra, all the naughty people are seen conveyed by rail (an interminable line) into the bottomless pit, and in palpable railway waggons properly directed Lon- don, Paris, 'Vienna, &c. Poor Popery, too, comes in for an awful share of doom,and Kings and Queens arc being treated decidedly requo pede. Happily, this impossible kind of art can be numbered with the scales that have dropped from the eyes of our artists.
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