TO A LYRIC AND ARTIST.
(Which we received from a Correspondent, and could not possibly insert in a more appropriate place than this.)
No wonder that Painters are "drawing long faces," And Poets write badly, the while they discover How truly the Muses, how fondly the Graces, Receive the addresses of one little Lover.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF RICHARDSON, THE SHOWMAN.
With a Peep at Bartholomew Fair.
BY THE AUTHOR OF FISHER'S NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.
Seventeenth Edition, 4to.
In a periodical like the present, a contributor, if he really have anything in him, ought to set off at score. Such is my determination.
Works of the sort can only be produced by the exhibition of three rare qualities, namely, Wit, Humour, and entertaining Fiction. The first has been compared to a razor, which "cuts the most when exquisitely keen;" the second I will venture to liken to a table-knife, which slashes away at all on the board, and the best when broadly shining and tolerably sharp in the edge; and the last is familiar enough to everybody, under the term of "throwing the hatchet." But whatever the instrument, be it razor, or knife, or axe, it is quite essential that it should never lose its temper.