The hostess Teniers; the That, as well

with shoulders that forced her to look down more than she wished. Added to this, she was broad faced, flat pated, saddle nosed, blind of one eye, and could scarcely see out of the other." could not have been better marked by the pencil of owl perched over her head should not be overlooked. as the rope hung to a beam, cracked walls, &c. &c. added to the miserable figure of the knight reclined on his hard pallet, display variety of wretchedness. I do not recollect to have seen a print in which the light is more judiciously distributed; in this and every other particular, I think it much superior to the same scene designed by Vanderbank, in Jarvis's quarto translation. (Vide Shelton, p. 29.)- -PLATE V. Don Quixote seizes the Barber's Bason for Mambrino's Helmet. In this print the face and figure of the fierce knight are spirited; the terror and astonishment of the discomfited barber well expressed, and the triumphant shout of Sancho, in the distance, admirably characteristic. Notwithstanding this, I think, that Vanderbank's design for Jarvis, where the squire is brought into the fore-ground, contemplating the glittering prize, is a better chosen point of time. To Sancho he has given a mixture of cunning and simplicity which I have seldom seen so happily displayed; and taken as a whole, it is perhaps a superior plate to Hogarth's. (Vide Shelton, p. 42.)-PLATE VI. Don Quixote releases the Galley Slaves. The moment taken in this busy scene, is when our valorous knight, after having unhorsed one of the guards, is engaged with the other, while Sancho, willing to bear his part in the adventure, helps to extricate Gines de Passamonte from his bonds. In this, as in some other of Hogarth's designs, the artist not having taken the trouble of reversing his drawing, the figures are left handed. The character of Sancho, and two or three of the slaves, is admirable. I think the whole design much superior to Vanderbank's in Jarvis's translation, where the scene is chosen after the discomfiture of the guards; for to two or three of the thieves Van. has given the countenances of apostles. His whole print is tame, feeble, and spiritless. (Vide Shelton, p. 47.)-PLATE VII. The first Interview of the va

lourous Knight of La Mancha with the unfortunate Knight of the Rock. This interview, which took place in the mountains of Sierra Morena, Cervantes thus describes : "Cardenio approached with a grave pace, and in a hoarse voice saluted them, with great courtesy⚫ Don Quixote returned his greeting with no less complaisance, and pressed him strongly in his arms, as if they had been long ac quainted. The knight of the rock, after he had been thus embraced, retreated a few steps, and laying his hand on the Don's shoulder, perused his face with such earnestness, as though he were desirous of recollecting if he had ever seen him before, and no less admired Don Quixote's strange figure, than himself was admired by our heroic knight errant." This is the point of time which Hogarth has chosen; and the wild eye of Cardenio, the placid benevolence of Don Quixote, and the shrewdness of the goatherd, are well opposed. From the air, attitude, and action of Sancho, I should have imagined the period to be after he had been mauled by the madman, did not the two knights so strongly determine it to be before. In Vanderbank's design of the same subject, vide Jarvis's quarto, the figure of Sancho is tolerable, but the Don is vapid and ill drawn, and Cardenio's head, like that of Medusa, looks as if it were encircled with snakes. (Vide Shelton, p. 51.)-PLATE VIII. The Curate and Barber disguising themselves to convey Don Quixote home. Don Quixote's old neighbours, the curate and barber, being desirous of checking his wandering disposition, are here disguising themselves for an interview, in which they hoped to bring him home, where they trusted he might again live as an old Christian ought to do. In pursuance of this plan, the barber procured an ample beard, made from the tail of a pied ox; and the curate assumed the habit of a distressed virgin, and framed a tale of having been wronged by a naughty knight, to punish whom the Don was to be entreated to follow, wherever this afflicted fair one should lead. The dressing-room for this masquerade, is the kitchen of an inn; out of the door, astride on a bench, inhaling copious draughts from a leathern bottle, Sancho gives some life to a little landscape in the distance. (Vide Shelton, p. 60.)—PLATE IX. Sancho's