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when that exaggerated copy is made the model for another, its departure from the original becomes too wide for the imagination to reconcile. It been said, that the whole business of French society is represented; it is the same with their historical painting; they aim to show, not how their character would look and act, but how they should be represented. That the Italians, surrounded by the masterpieces of the arts, which their own country has provided, should have followed in the same course, shows how difficult it is to resist the influence of the actual state of society; and that it degrades the need of the artist; long before it quite corrupts the public's taste, is proved by the fact, that the old Italian school is as much as ever admired, even in their countries where modern art is in the most deplorable state of degeneracy.

If their views are correct, there is more in them to stimulate than to discourage artists. They exhibit no risen noticeable