GENERAL INDEX ΤΟ ATKINSON'S CASKET, FOR 1833. Description of the Vignette Title Page, representing the Origin of the Orders of Architecture. tell me, what is this thou hast raised with the mysterious magic of thy hand? It is a new art! replied Lycidas. The forms thou viewest around I found in nature; and this ART is a memorial of HUMAN AFFECTION. Explain thyself! said Amaryllis, with fondness and curiosity. Observe that column opposite. Lycidas smiled, while the wondering Amaryllis leaned over him, contemplating the column with the tremor of delight. Yes, it is thyself! raised to thy memory, I gave it the delicacy of the feminine character. It has all thy gracility; it is a model of a woman with her orna. ments. The volutes at its head, twining in spiral lines, represent thy locks curling beneath thine ear: the deep indented flutings that run down the trunk, imitate the falds of thy flowing dress: the base, which winds like twisted cords, resembles thy sandals. But the columns opposite are richer than mine. What means that beautiful ornament, which looks like a rich foliage, branching from the top. |lar of the Doric order, which is formed with the proportions and strength of the body of a man; a naked simplicity rather than a finished elegance, mark that plain unadorned column; it was the first I raised; it has a rude and primitive simplicity, for one never knows how to ornament a first production. The ori gin of the first column was the trunk of a tree; my great difficulty, at first, was to know how high I should make it; the height of the tree was too great, so I proportioned it to my own height. Those long arcades were imagined from a row of trees; and this dome above us, but imitates the vault of heaven. Divine artist! thou hast not explained that secret something, that silent music, which so touches and so satisfies the soul! What thou fancifully callest a silent music, is the effect of a symmetrical proportion. In art, no inhar monious object is agreeable; all must be balanced The height must be proportioned to the breath; the relative parts of a work are measured by the whole, and the whole must be consonant to the parts. Such, Amaryllis, are the concords even in marble! This I learnt from nature, for it is exhibited in the human form; there we trace an affinity between the It is designed for what it seems. One day, near the foot, the hand, the finger, and all its parts: in every cave, thou didst leave a panier on a young acanthus; perfect work each individual member should enable the panier was covered by a tile, and the rich foliage us to judge of the magnitude of the work itself. It is of the plant grew around it; and we admired how thy thy tapering arms, winding like tendrils round my basket, covered by a tile, had, as it were, become a neck; thy two soul dissolving eyes; and the regular part of the acanthus itself, forming a new and beauti-graces of thy well proportioned form, that enchant. ful object. Examine it; it is but a copy. From nature and from thee, I learnt the gradual charm Wonderful, Lycidas! but thyself, where art thou? of unity in proportion, and uniformity in variety. There, replied the first architect, pointing to a pilD'Israeli's Romances. MONTHLY EMBELLISHMENTS January Number-Portrait of William Penn of Talma - Cathedral at Rheims - View of July-Latest Fashions-Academie Royale de March-Apprehension-Erie Canal, at Little Falls Catholic Church at South Boston-Statue of Peter the Great-Court House at Cleveland-Petrarch's Inkstand. April-Portrait of John Hancock-Royal Clarence Vase-Ohiopyle Falls-Coblentz-The Mabogany Tree-The Sugar Cane. May-Mount Etna-Crater of Mount EtnaQuadrant, London-Fair Mount Water Works. June-The Fisherman's Return-The Tomb Burke 25 June 19?2 Flower. August-The Serenade-Holt's New HotelDeparture of the Israelites. September-Portrait of Dr. Wistar-Representation of Rotterdam-Monument to Robert Burns-An Indian Battle. October-Los Musicos-City of Bruges-Benares, in India-Hotham Island. November-Skin Lodges of the KaskaiasPere la Chaise-La Grange Terrace, N. York. December-The Peasant Boy-Ghaut of Cutwa-State House of Kentucky-Catching Tortoise on the coast of Cuba-City of Mecca. Comicalities, 408 Gleanings, Chantilly in the Olden Time, Clarence Vase, the Royal Coblentz, Conscript and his Dog, the Crossing the Delaware, Circassian Females, Coquetry, Ferrall's Ramble in the U. S. 115 First and Last Ticket, the 121 Foundling, the Feeding on Smells, 147 First Bliss of Matrimony, the 169 Florida, view of the territory, 255 Feigned and Real Attachment, 532 Crockett, David, Adventures of 282 398 Farmer Applegate and his Sons, 81 Kaskaias, moveable skin 481 116 lodges of 120 Kentucky, State House of 553 133 L } Life of a Sailor, 456 289 Last of the Sarpints, Marriage, 134 257 ary tale, 553 Mount Etna, with engravings, 193 Moravian Indians, the, 196 89 Mind, original Laws of 258 Mauch Chunk, 280 145 Mariner's Compass, 281 de, Paris, |