their own artists, and to the promotion of science, literature, and the arts, in our beloved and respected country.

In your paper, No. 3, on the Colossal Statue of Achilles, I trace the production of a female mind, eminently conversant in works of taste, and animated by filial piety. It is however, or my skill deceives me, intermixed with touches of another, and not a female hand. The separation and distinction of the parts I might atchieve by labour; but I shall forego, or at least delay the attempt, from a wish not to trespass too much on your time, or on that of your readers.

YOUR 13th paper on the Moral Effects of Music, I pronounce to be an insulated production. You would have done better, Mr. Director, and have afforded more pleasure to your readers, if you had given us, instead of one, many specimens from his hand; and at the same time you would have lessened my difficulty in decyphering the genius, character, and his

tory of this writer. What, however, my skill has discovered of him, I will faithfully give. The author of the thirteenth number has been endued from his birth with talents of such a cast, that no branch of study could have been the object of his attention without eminence. He might have been a Virgil or a Martial, a Pliny or a Cicero. He would have succeeded as a poet, a painter, a sculptor, a musician, an historian, or a philosopher :

The world was all before him, where to choose. Happily for this country, he has, (as I find by my art) consecrated his life to religious functions, and to moral and intellectual studies. The more you can induce him to write, the better it will be for mankind:-and I therefore blame you, excuse me, good Mr. DIRECTOR, for being content with a single production, when the interest of the community demanded many.

IN the Bibliographiana, the Postscript to the Fly-flap, the account of the British

Gallery, the Sketches of modern characters ; the Walk in London; the Mirror of Truth, and the Alarmist, I discover clear and distinct evidence of identity of character. The same talent of application, the same habit of research, and the same urbanity of manner, pervade every part of them. These, however, are marks, which float upon the surface, and may be apparent to your readers as well as to myself: I shall therefore proceed to notice, what, without personal and intimate knowledge of the party, they could not have discovered; and what I, without my own extraordinary art, could not have developed. I find that this gentleman is also of the clerical order; and that, though his affection and attention to literary pursuits are severe and unremitting, yet that he performs with religious and assiduous care all his professional duties. He may therefore exclaim with Cicero, "Who will have any right to blame me, if I devote to these delightful studies those

cerned in this matter? Speaking of the Artist, I should tell you, that I originally intended to have applied my art to the detection of the writers in that paper. But as they announced at first, and have continued to announce, that "each essay will have the signature of its author," I thought that, after much labour, I should have no merit in the discovery; as the editor would have informed the public, that each essay had really the signature of the author, but that my weak eyes could not perceive it.

T. S.

My correspondent's suggestion of the adoption of the name of CLUB is deserving of consideration; and his conjecture, with regard to some variation which has taken place in the selection of subjects for the Director, is correct and just. I consider the Artist as a publication, which may be of great use in this country, and I trust that it will not be given up.

would have too much the air of a modern editor: and therefore, because he hath offences in him, which thou wouldst discover if thou couldst, I shall let him continue, and reserve what I have to say on this subject to a more convenient opportunity.

In the mean time I beg leave to subscribe myself, with unfeigned regard and esteem,

My dear Director,

Your sincere and affectionate Friend,

TRISMEGISTUS SECUNDUS.

P. S. WHEN you have nothing better to do, you may as well tell your readers, why, as you are many, you have not taken the name of the Directory, or the Director's Club, or simply of the Club? And why, after having announced the fine arts as your principal subject, you have dealt more in literary subjects; and how far the publication of the ARTIST is con