Christian herald and signs of our times . rtain actions for the sake of teachinghow terribly they are afterward expiated. Wil-liam Hogarth did not confine himself merely tocomposing pictures, he also engraved them, afortunate circumstance, as his works retainedtheir original style and attractions better thanthey could have done in the hands of other art-ists. His engravings were nearly completed inetching, and then most skilfully retouched bythe graver. Thinking above all of expression,he used the needle or graver for that purpose asreadily as the brush, and his engravings notonly possess all
Christian herald and signs of our times . rtain actions for the sake of teachinghow terribly they are afterward expiated. Wil-liam Hogarth did not confine himself merely tocomposing pictures, he also engraved them, afortunate circumstance, as his works retainedtheir original style and attractions better thanthey could have done in the hands of other art-ists. His engravings were nearly completed inetching, and then most skilfully retouched bythe graver. Thinking above all of expression,he used the needle or graver for that purpose asreadily as the brush, and his engravings notonly possess all the qualities of his pictures, butexcel them in their harmony. There is a widedifference between William Hogarth and other * From Wonders of Engraving, an illustrated work by-Georges Duplessis, describing the most famous engravings in theworld, and the characteristics of the most eminent masters of theart. Pp. 338; price $i. Published by Charles Scribners Sons,Broadway, New York. 604 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. Sept. Sunset. English painters cf manners and master is anxious about the philosophicalside of his work, and desirous of giving to hiscompositions all the value of a moral lesson, butthe caricaturists who succeeded him cared littleto make their works of general interest. If theyintended to ridicule any one they exaggeratedhis physical defects, or represented him in rags,or wretched and scorned, that was all ; and ifthey did depict one of the thousand miseries oflife, they carried buffoonery to the greatest ex-treme ; the figures, the gesture, the expression,the dress are exaggerated to such an extent thatthey do not always provoke even a laugh. THE TIRED SOLDIER. (See Ilhislration.) ANNETTE, my child, I think I will lie downa little ; I am very tired. The speaker was anold pensioner who in his youth had followedthe eagles of the first Napoleon, had been in thedisastrous retreat from Moscow, and had seenhis masters star of glory set
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