DICK. And so do I; so come along. We never should have believed this, if we hadn't tried; but its jus* what my old mother used to say-MUCH COIN, MUCH CARE.* * It need hardly be observed that this little trifle was written exclusively for youngs, to whom the style was adapted. The subject is imitated from one of Théodore Leclery's Proverbes Dramatiques. 18 MEMOIRS ILLUSTRATIVE OF ART. WHAT if the little rain should say "So small a drop as I Can ne'er refresh the thirsty plain, What if a shining beam of noon Should in its fountain stay, Because its feeble light alone Cannot create a day? Doth not each raindrop help to form The cool refreshing shower? And every ray of light to warm And beautify the flower? AKON. THE HOUSE OF TITIAN Doch ist der Mensch Nicht Künstler blos, auch Mensch; die Menschlichkeit OEHLENSCHLÄGER. For the Painter Is not the Painter only, but the man; VENICE, September, 1845. IF I were required to sum up in two great names whatever the art of painting had contemplated and achieved of highest and best, I would invoke RAPHAEL and TITIAN. The former as the most perfect example of all that has been accomplished in the expression of thought through the medium of form; the latter, of all that has becn accomplished in the expression of life through the medium of color. Hence it is, that, while both have given us mind, and both have given us beauty, Mind is ever the characteristic of Raphael -Beauty, that of Titian. Considered under this point of view, these wonderful men remain to us as representatives of the |