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Franklin Nights (or Days)-Shakespeare's Songs-Robert Johnson, 514-Joan of Arc-" Parliament Clocks ""The Poor Cat i' th' Adage-Early Stage-Coaches, 515Olive Schreiner-" Auster" Land Tenure "Viscount Stafford-"Good old "James Macburney -S. E. Thrum-Old London: The Cloth Fair-Arms of Elling: ham, 516 Danteiana The Caveac Tavern Magdalen " or Mawdlen," 517-Hearth Tax-"Tenant in Capite' The Hooded Steersman - Four-Bottle Men: The edition of Marsand, published in two large folio volumes by the Tipografia del Seminario in 1819, remains one of the most perfect editions of Petrarch in existence, an edition entirely worthy of that fine old press which contributed so much in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the love of beautiful printing and equally beautiful engraving. Even now the actual paper of the edition is snow-white, and the letters have a delicate yet intensely black type reminiscent of the finest works of the Venetian presses. It is a fit memorial to the poet associated with neighbouring Arqua, and the librarian shows with pride an autographed Latin epistle by him written in a small, exquisitely clear hand. The great interest of the edition, however, lies in the engraving given as a frontispiece by Raphael Morghen after a painting by Simon Memmi-Beati gli occhi, che la vider viva-surely one of the few engravings which give to the portrait of a supremely beautiful woman a supremely beautiful realization. The lifeless portrait of Memmi becomes, in the hands of Morghen, a rich, lovely, palpitating thing quivering with life and dignified at the same time; the flesh tones are rendered very softly and graded imperceptibly, with a very great precision of line, silvered and toned from velvety shadow to a milkier light-the introduction of colour into engraving by means of engraving alone. ce 2 juillet, 1821. Monsieur, J'ai l'honneur de Vous accuser reception de la lettre en date du 8 juin, que vous m'avez fait l'honneur de m'adresser, au sujet The history of this engraver presents de l'exemplaire de l'Edition des Poésies du célèbre Petrarque, que vous adressâtes, il y a many points of interest and is, in fact, found its highest development in the the original. The objection may be made Settecento; with his master, Volpato, that this is a weakness in the engraver, he carried the art of engraving to its apo- who should transfer his subject to the theosis, to an excellence unrivalled by any steel without the impression of his own engraver of modern times. Morghen was personality, but the art of painting is not fortunate in having as patron General the the art of engraving and each must be Marquis Manfredini, a wealthy Padovan considered only in itself, in direct relation still held in honour in that town. Man- to art. In this art appreciation Morghen fredini commissioned Morghen, in addition must take a very high place. to his work as an engraver, to form a collec- The Settecento still remains to be studied tion of engravings from the earliest times, as it should be studied, as the century and to this commission we owe the magnifi- which contributed more than any other cent collection in the Seminario which to our modern appreciation of the subtler, traces, in its three hundred examples, more exquisite things in that beauty which the development of the art from Albrecht is wrongly considered as artificial, the beauty Dürer until the Settecento. No student of printing, engraving, cameos, furniture, of book illustration, as well as of engraving lace, arrazzi-subtle little things leading on a larger scale, can neglect this collection, the mind to a new, radiant world where the and no modern master can omit Morghen, vision rests in gratitude and the emotions since the technique of the latter is fully are stirred to a delicately gracious music, as modern as that of Timothy Cole and a music, however, which has in it an infinite infinitely finer in the realization of subtle and even profound beauty. Such a music effects of light softening gradually into hovers round the art of Raphael Morghen. half-shadow-folds and dull gleams on HUGH QUIGLEY. flesh, rising of muscle over muscle in a fine velvety suggestion. In the great engravings that of the Cena of Leonardo da Vinci, where the impression of actual impulsive life comes more directly into the engraving than into the fresco; of the Verona. IRISH FAMILY HISTORY. Vergine col Bambino of Titian, where the (See 12 S. iii. 500; vi. 208, 308; vii. 2, 25, 65, 105, 163, 223, 306, 432; viii. 443.) REYNOLDS OF COOLBEG, CO. DONEGAL. THE following pedigree has been compiled in collaboration with Mrs. R. J. Reynolds of Ballyshannon, and we are greatly indebted to the late Sir E. Bewley, Knt., of Dublin, for the assistance he gave us by his researches on our behalf in the records in Dublin. soft beauty of the child lying on the ground seems to glow and shiver in a delicate play of light; of the Madonna della Seggiola, where a hackneyed subject becomes impressive as art in a different mediumthe power and genius of Morghen rise to a level with the genius of the artist and both meet on the higher plane of art. In the Madonna del Sacco of Andrea del Sarto, the Danza delle stagioni of Nicolas Poussin, the Ritratto di Dante of Toffanelli, and the The Robert Reynolds first mentioned fine Fornarina of Raphael, where a finished below is the earliest member of this family and unfinished engraving of the same sub- of whom I can find any record. O'Farrell's ject are placed side by side to show the deli-Linea Antiqua,' in Ulster's Office, Dublin cate art of the engraver so that the student can trace the development of the engraving from the first outline, to the first undertone and to the last delicate touch which gives life and colour to shadow, the treatment becomes freer and more spontaneous, more instinctive-intuitive almost-in the touch until in what we must consider his masterpiece-the Sant' Andrea of Raphael-the force of line in shadow and the strong grouping of light even within light gives an impression of strength and even majesty which we cannot feel in confrontation with Castle, contains an extensive pedigree of the Magrannal (anglice, Reynolds) family, but nothing, so far as I can ascertain, enabling one to say definitely that this Robert Reynolds is a member of such and such" a branch of the Magrannals. Possibly a further search amongst the Dublin records might reveal a clue to particulars of himself and his ancestors-this I am hoping to undertake when able to revisit Dublin. Robert Reynolds of Donegal, in Co. Donegal, evidently owned property at Drumholme, Co. Donegal, and probably |