A Criticism

Henry Havard calis Scheffer "that great and sombre painter," and says he inight havo been an artist of the robust type, but while Cuyp, Bol, and Mass dwelt in their own country, in vidid, brightly tinted Holland, and sunned themselves in its scintillaling light, Soheffer went to another oountry, to soe other sights, to beeome the interpretar of other inspirations. An unfinished pottrait, whieh belongs to tho museum at Dordrecht, shows us what he might have been. Never was there a head more boldly drawn, more ünely modeled, more purely oolored, paintea with more masterly breadth and freodom. - Only Frans lials could have equalkvl it in vigor, lite, and expression. It is because that head is all made of impressions and sensations, that it is so powerful and so beautiful; it is because the pamter had not time to finish it, to substitute a eickly interpre tfttioniorhia first fresh and vivid inspiration, to eft'ace it pristine vigor by touches which shoulc make it haggurd, pale, and nicagre more poetical in short, according to hi notions of poetry. He had not leisur for this once to produce idealitm, an( so he simply produced a true and fin painting. 'This beautiful and exeeption al work is the most interesting pictur ín the Dort Museum.-