'I cannot omit on this occasion, to repeat, what I have said so often, that the Americans are, without contradiction the most happy people I have known; still more happy, if they understand well their happiness.

'I pray you not to doubt of my sincere regard.-Your's, &c.

JOSEPH COMPTE DE SURVILLIERS.'

The Country Wedding is engraved from a painting by Krimmel, an artist not sufficiently known to be duly appreciated. He is a native of Germany, but long since chose this country for his residence, and has painted many pictures in which the style of Wilkie-so much admired in Englandand of Gerard Dow so much celebrated of yore-is most successfully followed. He avoids the broad humour of the Flemish school as much as possible, as not congenial to the refinement of modern taste, and aims rather at a true portraiture of nature in real, rustic life.

In the picture here presented he has delineated a scene of no rare occurrence in the dwellings of our native yeomenry. The whole is in admirable keeping. The furniture and decorations of the room, the costume and attitudes of the characters show, perfectly the inside of a farmer's dwelling, and the business that occupies the group. The old clergyman appears to have just arrived, his saddlebags, hat and whip, lie on the chair near the door, the bride stands in all her rustic finery, rustic bloom, and rustic bashfulness. The bride-groom's hand on her shoulder, seems intended to revive her courage, while the manner in which he grasps her hand is at once affectionate and awkward. The distress of the mother solaced by the father, who points to a younger daughter, as if indicating her as the successor to her sister's rank in the family, is well expressed. And the by-play at the door, which is opened by a servant girl to admit an old woman, the awkward affectation of grace and importance in the bride's-maid, whose attention seems to be attracted by what is passing between the young man and young woman on the other side of the room, all are full of life and true characteristic painting.

Mr. Krimmel's painting room, in Spruce street above Seventh, in Philadelphia, contains many admirable specimens in the same style. His Country dance, Return from camp, Return from boarding school, &c. afford the amateur a rich and varied repast.

ART. IX.- Miscellaneous Articles.

Fine Arts.-Mr. Sully's greatpicture of the passage of the Delaware by the American army in 1776, is finished, and exhibiting at the gallery, No. 169, Chesnut street. It contains a full size equestrian portrait of Washington, and also likenesses of general St. Clair, and col. Knox. The connoisseurs speak of it in the most favourable terms. Mr. Birch has recently finished a beautiful view of the passage of the Br Brandywine by a corps of the artillery battalion on their march to Kennet's square, in September 1814. And a fine sea piece, representing the wreck of the brig Helen, near cape Henlopen.

Among the most recent American publications, are the South Sea Islander, containing many interesting facts, relative to the former and present state of society in the island of Otaheite, &c. New York, published by W B. Gilley.

Biographical memoir of the late Hugh Williamson, M.D. LL.D. &c. delivered, Nov. 1, 1819, at the request of the New York historical society. By David Hosack, M. D. &c. New York, 1820.

The Fudge Family in Washington, a poem, edited by Harry Nimrod. Baltimore, small 12 mo.

A work under the title of the United States Military Review, is preparing for the press, and will be published in Quarterly Numbers. Its object is, to examine all publications having relation to the late war with

Great Britain, and to any military movement since. Boston Paper.

A biography of the late governor Caleb Strong has been published at Boston.

Mr. N. G. Маxwell, Baltimore, proposes to publish one volume of sermons, of the late Dr. James inglis; for the benefit of the orphan children of the deceased author.

Mr. A. P. Heinrich, of Kentucky, proposes to publish the musical effusions of his leisure hours, under the title of Dawning of music in Kentucky,' &c.

Mrs. Graham, author of a Journal of a Residence in India, &c. who is now in Italy, is preparing for the press, Two Months Residence in the Mountains near Rome; with some Account of the Peasantry, and also of the Banditti that infest that neighbourhood. -The same lady has also been employing her time upon a Life of Nicholas Poussin.

Edinburgh Mag.

A Humorous and Satirical work, entitled, Lessons of Thrift, is on the eve of publication. It is ascribed to the pen of a distinguished veteran in the fields of literature; and report speaks of it as combining the placid good sense and amiable bonhommie of Montaigne, with the caustic raillery of Swift, and the richly gifted philosophy of Burton. It is to be illustrated with engravings from designs by Cruikshanks, in the best style of that unrivalled caricaturist.

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