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    NOTES OF THE MONTH.

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    after seeing a magnified specimen of the Water Lion , and the Hydrophilus , or water-devil , alive and diabolically sportive . A Letter to Lord Holland on the Judgment in the case of Lady Hewley s Trust . London , Hunter , Wilson . This is the best pamphlet we have seen in this much controverted affair . The writer avows his indifference as to the

    endowments , or the sectarian appropriation of them which may be desired , but he protests against the legal exertion of a theological test for trusts which were left unrestricted by the founders . He ably exposes the controversial quirks and criticisms in which certain high legal authorities have been displaying their ignorance and pretension , if nothing worse ; and

    deprecates squabbles amongst dissenters which can only prejudice the advancement of that religious liberty of which they ought to consider themselves as the peculiar guardians . We heartily accord in his conclusion . " In whatever way the case is ultimately decided , my sole desire is , Jiat justitia , mat ccelum . The result may be , that no party whicli has hitherto

    appeared is entitled to the property in dispute . If so ; and if the heir at law should be pronounced the rightful possessor , I should wish him joy of his prize ; if the Crown , there is no doubt that the property would be diverted from Sectarian purposes and consecrated to objects of general utility . "

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    The Royal Academy . It is very common for people to say of the exhibition at Somerset House , that " it is worse this year than the last . " TSow , there is a slowness in the progress of art iti every individual artist , us well as in the popular capacity of judging-. The first signs of great improvement must necessarily be in those who practise the art ; and we fear there is a deficiency at present , not of professional talent , nor , perhaps , even of original genius , but of high principles of art and of appreciation , among the practitioners and their wealthy soi-disant patrons . The merits and defects of the productions exhibited

    on the present occasion , are much as usual . There are pictures of great merit in their line , though that line is not the greatest ; pictures , which are carefully mediocre , and not a few that are quite unworthy of the prominent place they hold ; nor can we pass over the great men of the Royal Academy , without offering a little objection to some of their most applauded productions . The large picture by Maclise of what he calls " Macbeth and the Weird Sisters , ' is a failure , at once ludicrous and grotesque , and painfully * o » because it is the failure of a man of real genius . The *• Peep oMay boys cabin , " though very , beautiful as a work of urt , is much over-rated as to its degiee of sentiment and expression . Kriough is done to enable U 9 to imagine

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 389, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/61/