typal standard of its species, when it not only exhibits in the greatest perfection the attributes of life, but when it most bears the impress of mind, control ling and spiritualising both." "The con clusion which the foregoing considerations appear to warrant, may be now briefly stated as follows:-Character is relative beauty-Life is the highest character-Mind is the highest life." We confess, in conclusion, that we are not yet disposed to admit, from any thing we have read, that Burke's "Sublime and Beautiful" is superseded. We can as readily believe that the sublime and beautiful may be reunited in one view, as that it is optional to separate them. The sublime and the beautiful both belong to us as human beings, making their sensible impressions all sources of pleasure, greatly differing in kind. It is inseparable from our condition to have a sense of a being vastly superior to ourselves: sublimity has a reference to that superior power over us, and to ourselves, as subject to it: while it renders us inferior, it lifts our minds to the knowledge of the greater. Beauty, on the contrary, seems to look up to us for aid, support, or sympathy. It thus flatters while it pleases, and, in contradiction to the subduing influence of the sublime, it makes ourselves in some respects the superior, and puts us in good humour both with the object and ourselves. We are loath to quit this most inWe thank Mr teresting subject. Eastlake for bringing it so charmingly before us. We feel that our remarks have been very inadequate, both with regard to the nature of the subject, and as "The Philosophy of the Fine Arts " may seem to demand. But we are aware that to do both justice would require larger space than can be here allowed, and an abler pen than we can command. We almost fear a complete elucidation of beauty is not within the scope of the human mind. It may be to us not from earth, but from above; and we are not prepared to receive its whole truth. Burke somewhere observes that "The waters must be troubled ere they will give out their virtues." The allusion is admirable, and justifies disturbing discussions. On such a subject, where the root of the matter grows not on earth, it may be added, in further allusion, that the stirring hand should be that of an angel. INDEX TO VOL. LXIV. Acting in China, 89. Agriculture of France and England, com- Alain family, the, extracts from, 560. American war, caricatures illustrating Anne, queen, character of, 327. Aristocracy, necessity of a, to Britain, 14. Art-unions, results of, 146. Ashley, lord, on the juvenile population, Ateliers Nationaux, sketches of the, 249. Australia, importance of, 66-demand for Austria, the revolution in, 519. Byron's address to the ocean, on, 499. Canning, rupture of Castlereagh with, 620. Caricatures of the 18th century, the, 543. Cavaignac, general, 259. Caxtons, the, Part IV. chap. ix., 40- Chartism, classes among whom prevalent, 269. Chartist demonstration, feeling regarding, Chartists, sympathy between, and the Chaucer as laureate, 224. Cheremisses, the, 87. Chesterfield, lord, 334. China, Erman's travels in, 88. Chuvasses, the, 87. Cibber, Colley, 230. Cinque Cento, the, 145. Cleghorn's ancient and modern art, re- view of, 145. Cobden, Mr, reductions proposed by, 265, 266. Coercion, necessity of, in Ireland, 485. Colonial legislation, review of recent, 275. Colours, Goethe's theory of, 759. Commercial classes, rise of, to power, Commercial crisis, the, 262. Conciliation, failure of, in Ireland, 485. Entail, the law of, 1-bill, examination of the, 9. Erman's Siberia, review of, 76. Ernest, letter from, 31. European revolutions, American thoughts Eusden, Lawrence, 229. Eusebius, letter to, on novels, 459. Constitution of the United States, the, Financial measures, recent, 263. Continental revolutions-Irish rebellion -English distress, 475. Cossacks, the, 81. Cottier system, the, 423. Cotton manufactures, growth of, 409. Crown security bill for Ireland, the, 283. Da Vinci, Leonardo, 760. Danube and the Euxine, the, 608. Devonshire, the duke of, 329. Doomster's first-born, the, chap. I., The Dudevant, madame, and her works, 568. Eastern life, Miss Martineau's, reviewed, Eastlake's literature of the fine arts, re- Economists, rise and doctrines of the, 408. Electric telegraph in America, the, 31. England, necessity of an aristocracy to, Findhorn river, the, 96. Fine arts commission, the, 148-East- lake's literature of the, 753. Fishing in Russia, 83. Fitzgerald, lord Edward, 615, 616. Fo, temple of, 89. Foote, Samuel, 550. Forty shilling franchise in Ireland, the, Fox, caricatures of, 553. France, agriculture of, compared with François le Champi, notices of, 568. Frederick-William, character, policy, &c., Free trade, progress of, 114-its influence Fur trade of Siberia, the, 84. George II., life and times of, 327-his seq. movement, 518-objects of the demo- cratic party, 536-state of the coun- Gillray the caricaturist, 544, 553. Glimpse at Germany and its parliament,a, 515. Godwin's novels, on, 466. Goethe's Theory of Colours, 759. Gothic architecture, rise of, 145. Grattan, close of the career of, 620. Great Britain, importance of Australia to, chap., II. 348--chap. III., 349-chap. Greek sculpture, on, 154-romances, 472. Gulielmus, the first English laureate, 222. Habeas corpus act, suspension of the, in Harrington, lord, 341. Harrowby, lord, notices of Castlereagh Heidelberg, first revolutionary assembly Hervey's life and times of George II., Heywood the poet, 226. Jewish disabilities bill, the, 279-an John, the archduke, 520. Johnson, Daniel and Ben, 227. Kaffirland, 158. Kames, lord, on the law of entail, 3. Karr, M., and his writings, 560. Last Constantine, Mrs Hemans', 652. Lays of the Deer Forest, review of, 92. Letter to Eusebius, a, on novels, 459. London, state of, under George I., 545. Highway robbery, prevalence of, in 1720, Londonderry, lord, memoirs of Lord 546. Hoadley, bishop, 342. Hogarth as a painter, 153-his first cari- Intestacy, law of succession in, 5. Ireland, agriculture and laws of property Italy, Whig policy toward, 286-present Jacobitism, prevalence of, under George Jahn, professor, 531, Jane Eyre, remarks on, 473. VOL. LXIV.-NO. CCCXCVIII. Castlereagh by, reviewed, 610. Louis Philippe, American estimation of, 32. Lyons, state of, 59. Macculloch on the succession to property vacant by death, review of, 1. Manufactures, state of exports and im- Mariage de Paris, notice of the, 565. Memoirs of Lord Castlereagh, 610. Mississippi scheme, the, 546. Mitchell, trial and condemnation of, 283. Molesworth, Sir William, 271. 8 D Monceaux, sketches in the park of, 249, Monsieur Bonardin, review of, 687, 700. More, Hannah, works of, 461. Moses, Miss Martineau's theory of, 183. the, 249, 691. Pye, Henry James, 231. Pyramids, the, 186. Queensberry, the duchess of, 335. Raffaelle, the Madonnas of, 152-Passa- Ragged schools, statistics of, 67. Rellstab, Lewis, 190, 359. National workshops of Paris, sketches of Republican France, June 1848, 51-First- Narvaez, the policy of, 627, 629. fruits, 687. Review of the last session, a, 261. Naval war of the French Revolution, the, Revolutions of England, the, 327-on the 595. Navigation laws, the, 114. Nelson, career and character of, 597. Nicholson's The Cape and its colonists, review of, 158. Nijni Novgorod, fair of, 79. Novels, a few words about, 459. Orval, the prophecy of, 704, 705, et seq. Peel, Sir R., on the sugar act, 276-the Poetry The Buried flower, 108-Huz- zah for the rule of the Whigs, 112- Poor-law, long want of, in Ireland, 661- that lately passed, and supplementary Primogeniture, sketch of the history of, 3 Continent, the, 475-of 1830 and 1848, Reybaud's Jérome Paturot, review of, 687. Roads of Russia, the, 83. Roman law of succession, the, 5. Rowlandson the caricaturist, 544, 554, 556. Ruxton, the late George Frederick, 591. 96. St Maur, the national workshops at, 253. Sand, George, and her works, 568. Saxon law of succession, the, 3, 6. Scotch agriculture, effects of entail on, 3. Shipping, influence of the navigation laws Sicily, the revolt of, 286. Sigismund Fatello, chap. I., The opera, Silk, increased importation of, 274. 290. |