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There is nothing  [[strikethrough]] new [[/strikethrough]] especially original in the opinion, or confined to ourselves read the following from a published notice. " Ah. here is another worthy - my friend Cummings - who as he is the last whom I address by name - so is he the least. That is to say in the size of his pictures - he is a small painter this Mr. Cummings. Whether we regard the dimensions of his Earthly tabernacle - or those of his [[strikethrough]] pictures [[/strikethrough]] paintings; but if we consider their merit alone _ Ah. There we shall indeed find him A. number 1. Tom is a man of genius, and his miniatures are exquisite. Shumway & Dodge are excellent and theirs shall as the Scotchman said of Mrs Siddons, "is nae bad;" but commend me to Tom Cummings as the leader in this branch of art, and the painter of as good a miniature as the much fastidious could devise.
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