brandy-sellers, rakes, and such-like disgusting characters, whom I condemn as only meet for the pleasure of an ass.'

It has been the fashion of some of our English professors to warn their pupils against imitating Salvator Rosa's works, which they hardly consider as ranking with the more regular and scientific compositions of the academies. Did they never consider the original, bold, free, and poetic character of his painting, and that few have the same poetic elevation of soul to equal

"What savage Rosa dashed."

J. M. T.

A WOUNDED ROMAN SOLDIER.

(Painted by Drouais.)

THIS Compositi onis from the pencil of an artist whose talents reflect lustre on the career he selected: the subject is at once simple and interesting. Having received a wound which is likely to deprive him of life, this soldier appears to look proudly indignant upon his rival, and to triumph over his affliction. He has put aside his cloak and sword, seeming to say in the words of Cato.

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Remember, O my friends, the laws, the rights,
The generous plan of power delivered down,
From age to age, by your crowned forefathers,
(So dearly bought, the price of so much blood :)
O let it never perish in your hands!
But piously transmit it to your children.
Do thou, great liberty, inspire our souls,

And make our lives in thy possession happy,
Or our deaths glorious in thy just defence."

This figure is one of those studies which the young French artists, who are sent to Rome at the expence of the government, are accustomed annually to produce, in order to attest their progress in the art. Drouais, by this display of his powers, has shewn himself worthy of the reputation which he had previously acquired.

In the figure of the "Wounded Soldier" a bold and correct outline, a chaste and vigorous colouring, and a flowing pencil, are particularly to be admired. This was the first study sent by M. Drouais to Paris from Rome. The figure is of the natural size.

GIRLS DRINKING.

(Painted by Mademoiselle Chaudet.)

THE subject of this picture is perfectly simple. A young girl is in the attitude of drinking; her sister with one hand, pushes away her head, with the other, endeavours to seize the vase. The pleasing scene was highly applauded during its exhibition. The public appeared much gratified, that an artist, so estimable in private life, as Mademoiselle Chaudet, should employ her pencil, on subjects at once tender and ingenious, that appeared particularly compatible with the delicacy of her sex.