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    " He ( Lafayette ) made me laugh with a story , that he said the English officers had told him of General Knyphausen , who commanded the Hessian mercenaries in 1776 , This officer , a rigid martinet , knew nothing of the sea , and not much more of geography . On the voyage between England and America he was in the ship of Lord Howe , where he passed several uncomfortable weeks , the fleet having an unusually long

    passage , on account of the bad sailing of some of the transports . At length Knyphausen could contain himself no longer , but , marching stiffly up to the Admiral one day , he commenced with— < My Lord , I know it is the duty of a soldier to be submissive at sea ; but being intrusted with the care of the troops of his Serene Highness , my master , j feel it my duty just to inquire if it be not possible that , during some of the short nights we have lately had , we may have sailed past America ?'

    This is all very well ; but what are we to say to the next ? " Rubens is , I think , a little apt to out-Dutch the Dutch . He appears to me to have delighted in the coarse , while Raphael revelled in the pretty . But Raphael could , and often did step out of himself and rise to the grand , and then he was perfect , because his grandeur was chastened . "Vol i , p . 202 .

    Imbecility of criticism , and the beauty of milk and water expression , may here be said to have attained a very high point of excellence .

    The Comic Annual . By Thomas Hood . We regret that this book was sent too late in the month to enable us to do any justice to its laughter-stirring contents . We have only looked at some of the wood-cuts , in which our high amusement at the originality of the conceptions is not a little

    enhanced by Mr Hood ' s noble and courageous contempt of all anatomy and perspective . We dare not look at any more ; for what with sundry delays occasioned by the mails in the snow , added to the usual printing-office circumstances of Christmas week , it is already a chance if we have the Magazine out by the proper

    time . The Cabinet of Modern Art , for 1837 . Edited by Alaric A . Watts . Third Series . Whittaker . The same circumstances as those mentioned above , must p lead our excuse with the editor of this annual ornament of the drawing-room table . Whether it were to our taste or not , and whether

    we had time or not , certain it is , that we should find it difficult to pass on to the literature after once fixing our eyes on the frontispiece , entitled , " The Birth of Venus . " Several heads in it we do not at all admire ; we think , moreover , that the foreshortened leg of the principal figure is not well managed ; but as a specimen of the art of engraving , it is one of the most beautiful things we

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    Critical Notices . 61

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 61, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/14/