imperfect, namely, bodily form, and circumscribes, his views of mental

expression to the ideas of power and grandeur only; - thirdly, because

it induces an effort to combine together two incongruous things, that is

to say, modern feelings in antique forms; - fourthly, because it speaks

in a language, as it were, learned and dead; the tones of which, being

unfamiliar, leave the common spectator cold and unimpressed; - and

lastly, because it necessarily causes a neglect of thoughts, emotions,

and images of profounder interest and more exalted dignity, as

motherly, sisterly, and brotherly love, piety, devotion, the divine

become human-the Virgin, the Apostle, the Christ. The artist's

principle in the statue of a great man should be the illustration of

departed merit; and I cannot but think that a skilful adoption of modern

habiliments would, in many instances, give a variety and force of effect

which a bigoted adherence to Greek or Roman costume precludes. It is,

I believe, from artists finding Greek models unfit for several important

modern purposes that we see so many allegorical figures on

monuments and elsewhere. Painting was, as it were, a new art, and

being unshackled by old models it chose its own subjects, and took an

eagle's flight. And a new field seems opened for modern sculpture in

the symbolical expression of the ends of life, as in Guy's monument,

Chantrey's children in Worcester Cathedral, etc.

Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature

which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design,

and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man,

and should at the same time teach him humility.

Music is the most entirely human of the fine arts, and has the fewest

analoga in nature. Its first delightfulness is simple accordance with the

ear; but it is an associated thing, and recalls the deep emotions of the

past with an intellectual sense of proportion. Every human feeling is

greater and larger than the exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is

designed for a higher state of existence; and this is deeply implied in

music in which there is always something more and beyond the