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and feel the itory intensely ; but the hint ha * more of matter that ) mind in it . Of Turner it i * scarcely too bard to say , tiiat he has at last carried his mannerism into a madness which is not redeemed by his having a *« method * ' in it . The idea , made up of rainbow and of fog , which he calls Juliet and her Nurse , is truly preposterous , Etty ' a colouring is as tineas usual , and his figures subject to the usual objections . Nobody can draw better than Etty , < c when he likes ; ** his figures are seldom out of drawing , but they are continually out of p roportion . Wilkie ' s Napoleon is youthful , handsome , and innocentlooicing . He should now paint the converse , and as it would be no more the character of * the mun than the present attempt , Mr . Landor would probably purchase it . No . 287 , the " Buttle of Killiecrankie , " and No . 13 , the •« Wiudsor Castle Packet , " are designs of great energy and thorough-going purpose . We are glad to see that a cultivation of the impassioned and imaginative style has commenced among some of
the junior branches of the Academy . No . 371 , the " Death warrant , * and No . 44-5 , " Captives detained fur a ransom , " are very finely conceived , and have more depth of feeling in their expression than almost any other pictures in the room . There are many beautiful miniatures this year ; particularly those of Barclay , Collen ,
Denning , Miss M . Gillies and Mrs . J . Robertson . A revolution seems also to have taken place in the hanging of the miniatures , and to very good purpose ; we mean that the best , no matter by whom , are for the most part hung in the best places . This is a reform . Jn the Model Academy , there are some beautiful figures byBaily ;
but we have looked in vain for a fresh specimen of Gibsons geniue . He has nothing there . What may this mean ? Theatres . Mr . Macr' -ady has eventually been successful in the arduous task of inducing a London manager to bring out a tragedy ; and one , moreover , depending for its effect upon the eloquence of poetry , and the classical purity of its construction . It does not in itself , possess threat dramatic power , but a refined beauty ; not
overwhelming nasgion , but intensity of design . The grandeur of its action , is attributable to Macready . To witness its success , the faces of those were seen around the house , whose " order" ought always to preside on such occasions ; Wordsworth , Landor , Knowles , I , a man Blanchard , Trelawney , and a host of other men of intellect and fine taste , not to mention the whole Bench of judges . Dnt riot by these alone , was this elegant production , and magnificent acting , highly appreciated . The conduct of the whole audience , piled to the roof , pave ample testimony of their sympathy , and of tlie fact
that the decline of the drama is not attributable to any want of authors , or to any essential change in the public taste . The only true cause exists in the fact that managers ' decline ' to produce such pieces , and with becoming care in the necessary arrangements . But , on the contrary , we see that to the very Inst , the utmost efforts nre made to supersede fine writing and acting by ul ! sorts of foreign melo-dramns and musical hashes . We trust thut Mr . Bnlfe ' s Maid of Artois will be " the very last . * ' Its apparently great success on the first night of representation , w « s owing to the prodigious physical energy and extraordinary voice of the accomplished Maiibran , and to the * ' packing of the house . ** The boisterous iteration with which everything was applauded , encored .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 390, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/62/
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