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The Drama.
AVe have now taken almost a round of the Theatres ( for we own ive have not visited the Pavilion or classic Sadler ' s AVells ) . It will appear from our brief strictures that the Drama is not in the most hopeful condition . We are sorry for it ; but so it is . To be sure , BRAHAM has a patent in his pocket for a new theatre , and YATES contemplates a nightly display of fireworks at the Colosseum : so who can tell what bright days , or rather nights , are in store for the Drama ?
FINE ARTS . Tim present exhibition of pictures at the Royal Academy , is a gratifying proof of the triumphant advance of English art . AVith such pictures as the contributions of AVilkie , Landseer , Mulready , and Mr . Clive , we may , indeed , challenge not only the modern world of painting , but venture comparisons with many of the glories of the classic
dead . Nothing in its style can be finer than the Columbus of Wilkie : there is a whole story , to its slightest minutice , told at a glance . The grouping is admirable ; and the colouring at once massive and brilliant . Mr . Clive is making rapid strides to a great reputation ; in his present , otherwise fine , picture , let him when the exhibition shall close , paint out the head of the Hon coxcomb of the clay—a head which he has selected for the shoulders of his principal figure—and paint in a
more rational set of human pictures . Genius shoulcl not employ itself in the sublimation of dandies , however exquisite the cut of their coats ; and the pre-eminence of their whiskers ! The panorama of Jerusalem , opened by Burford , is , perhaps , the most attractive of the whole series genius hitherto exhibited . It is admirably execcted ; it bears truth in every line and every mark . It is impossible—even in the heat ancl press of a public exhibition-roomto look on the scene , without feeling the mind absorbed and elevated by a certain melancholy . The genius loci , with all its subtle ancl
mvstenous influences , is suddenly working its enchantments over us , and the visiter quits the place " a wiser ancl a better man . " It may not here be out of place to give the impressions , by the greatest living poet of France , ( M . de Lamartine , ) from a view of the sacred city . There is a sublimity in its desolateness : — "The general aspect of the environs of Jerusalem may be painted in a few words ; mountains without shadow , earth without verdure , valleys without water , rocks without
grandeur , a few blocks of grey stone piercing the cracked sand ground ; here ancl there a fig-tree , and now ancl then a gazelle or a jackal gliding furtively among the broken rocks ; a few vine plants gliding over the reddish grey cinder-looking soil ; at wide distances apart , little clumps of pale olive-trees , casting a small spot of shade on the steep sides of a hill ; the grey walls ancl towers of the city appearing afar oft on the summit of Sion—this is the description of the earth . The sk y is hih clear ancl does the smallest
g , pure , , deep , never cloud float over it , or catch the purple colours of the evening or the morning . Toivards Arabia , a large gulf , dividing the black hills , leads the eye to the glittering waves of the Red Sea , or to the violet horizon of the peaks of the mountains of Moab . Not a breath of wind murmurs among the dry branches of the olive-trees ; no bird sings or cricket chirps in tlie herbless expanse ; a silence , eternal ancl complete , reigns in the city , on the roads , ancl over the country . "
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Drama.
AVe have now taken almost a round of the Theatres ( for we own ive have not visited the Pavilion or classic Sadler ' s AVells ) . It will appear from our brief strictures that the Drama is not in the most hopeful condition . We are sorry for it ; but so it is . To be sure , BRAHAM has a patent in his pocket for a new theatre , and YATES contemplates a nightly display of fireworks at the Colosseum : so who can tell what bright days , or rather nights , are in store for the Drama ?
FINE ARTS . Tim present exhibition of pictures at the Royal Academy , is a gratifying proof of the triumphant advance of English art . AVith such pictures as the contributions of AVilkie , Landseer , Mulready , and Mr . Clive , we may , indeed , challenge not only the modern world of painting , but venture comparisons with many of the glories of the classic
dead . Nothing in its style can be finer than the Columbus of Wilkie : there is a whole story , to its slightest minutice , told at a glance . The grouping is admirable ; and the colouring at once massive and brilliant . Mr . Clive is making rapid strides to a great reputation ; in his present , otherwise fine , picture , let him when the exhibition shall close , paint out the head of the Hon coxcomb of the clay—a head which he has selected for the shoulders of his principal figure—and paint in a
more rational set of human pictures . Genius shoulcl not employ itself in the sublimation of dandies , however exquisite the cut of their coats ; and the pre-eminence of their whiskers ! The panorama of Jerusalem , opened by Burford , is , perhaps , the most attractive of the whole series genius hitherto exhibited . It is admirably execcted ; it bears truth in every line and every mark . It is impossible—even in the heat ancl press of a public exhibition-roomto look on the scene , without feeling the mind absorbed and elevated by a certain melancholy . The genius loci , with all its subtle ancl
mvstenous influences , is suddenly working its enchantments over us , and the visiter quits the place " a wiser ancl a better man . " It may not here be out of place to give the impressions , by the greatest living poet of France , ( M . de Lamartine , ) from a view of the sacred city . There is a sublimity in its desolateness : — "The general aspect of the environs of Jerusalem may be painted in a few words ; mountains without shadow , earth without verdure , valleys without water , rocks without
grandeur , a few blocks of grey stone piercing the cracked sand ground ; here ancl there a fig-tree , and now ancl then a gazelle or a jackal gliding furtively among the broken rocks ; a few vine plants gliding over the reddish grey cinder-looking soil ; at wide distances apart , little clumps of pale olive-trees , casting a small spot of shade on the steep sides of a hill ; the grey walls ancl towers of the city appearing afar oft on the summit of Sion—this is the description of the earth . The sk y is hih clear ancl does the smallest
g , pure , , deep , never cloud float over it , or catch the purple colours of the evening or the morning . Toivards Arabia , a large gulf , dividing the black hills , leads the eye to the glittering waves of the Red Sea , or to the violet horizon of the peaks of the mountains of Moab . Not a breath of wind murmurs among the dry branches of the olive-trees ; no bird sings or cricket chirps in tlie herbless expanse ; a silence , eternal ancl complete , reigns in the city , on the roads , ancl over the country . "