ARTS AND ARTISTS.
NEW PRINTS.
WILKIE'S Parish Beadle, which has been so long in RAIMBACH'S hands, is now completed in the most elaborate and finished style of line en- graving; and it makes a most forcible and effective print. The solidity and closeness of texture of the work, however, give an ap- pearance of metallic hardness, which in some degree detracts from its beauty, and make us wish that it had been a little less laboured. The spirit of the picture has been embodied in the eegraving most success- fully. The frantic rage of the Italian, and the vehemence and expres- sive gesticulations of the woman with the hurdy-gurdy, who threatens the beadle's face, and whose shrill and voluble voice we almost hear, and the vacant and piteous look of the Savoyard boy who is dragged to the cage, by the stolid, pompous, well-fed parish official, illustrate at once the character of the incident and of the actors. The village boys, who are kept back by a constable, and the distant view of the fair, give an air of reality to the scene. The expressions of the faces are, as far as our recollection serves us, admirably preserved; and the texture of the flesh is well discriminated—a point of perfection that is not always
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