resting-place. The funeral was attended by the President of the Royal Academy, very many of its members and associates, and a large number of others, anxious to do honour to the memory of one, who did as much as ever artist did, to elevate the British school honourably among the nations. To no painter was there ever given so large a power of appreciating and portraying the beautiful in nature; and there is no name in art more widely and universally known and reverenced.

Some art-critics divide Turner's works into two classes-his "light manner," of which the "Grand Canal at Venice" may be instanced as an example; and his "dark manner," such as is seen in the "Fall of Carthage."

LL Englishmen who feel honest pride in their own beautiful country and its best class of peasantry, must

have a veneration for the painter who has delineated both so well-its leafy lanes, filled with little merry rustics, sometimes swinging on the gates, each one "Happy as a King," or just leaving the cottage door, with kindly welcome to the wearied wayfarer, to whom they bring a jug of refreshing drink with true "Rustic Hospitality." The latter picture was painted for

Mr. Marshall of Leeds, and an engraving of the same subject is given in Finden's "Gallery of Modern British Art." Such pictures of cottage life, or those of the life of the sea-beach, with its young "Shrimpers" and fisher-boys, with their thick-set forms and ruddy faces-all delineate the best features of the great Anglo-Saxon race, to which it is an honour to belong. Never was the sea-side or the country-life of England better painted than by William Collins; it is a pleasure to look upon his pictures in the foggy winter days of a London December, and dream of visiting some such pleasant spot, and chat with its villagers when June comes round again, in crossing the fields with them on "Sunday Morning" on our way to church.

It is a noble thing to have wealth to spare-but only so when it is put to noble uses. The men who spend their superfluity on fine pictures lay up a pleasure for all time-a refining “joy for ever" to all who look on them. It has but one drawback-its exclusiveness; for fine works are sometimes little seen but by their possessors, and often are buried in galleries all but unvisited. But when men who love art, and buy wisely, make a free gift of their tasteful gatherings for the good of their fellow-countrymen, ennobling the humblest by teaching them to contemplate works kings might covet, how great a debt of gratitude do we owe to them! All honour then to the names of Vernon and Sheepshanks-names of those who must ever be regarded as national benefactors; they have aided in enlightening, through the medium of the Arts, a large body of their countrymen, and the good work will be continued long after their contemporaries

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