more general view of the scope and operation
of art, and to avoid all conclusions in any wise referable to the
study of particular painters. The reader will therefore find, not
that lower rank is attributed to Turner, but that he is now compared
with the greatest men, and occupies his true position among the most
noble of all time.

POSTSCRIPT.

The above passage was written in the year 1843; too late. It is true
that soon after the publication of this work, the abuse of the press,
which had been directed against Turner with unceasing virulence during
the production of his noblest works, sank into timid animadversion, or
changed into unintelligent praise; but not before illness, and, in some
degree, mortification, had enfeebled the hand and chilled the heart of
the painter.

This year (1851) he has no picture on the walls of the Academy; and the
_Times_ of May 3d says, "We miss those works of INSPIRATION!"

We miss! Who misses?--The populace of England rolls by to weary itself
in the great bazaar of Kensington, little thinking that a day will come
when those veiled vestals and prancing amazons, and goodly merchandise
of precious stones and gold, will all be forgotten as though they had
not been, but that the light which has faded from the walls of the
Academy is one which a million of Koh-i-Noors could not rekindle, and
that the year 1851 will in the far future be remembered less for what it
has displayed than for what it has withdrawn.

DENMARK HILL, _June_, 1851.

END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

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CORRECTIONS MADE TO THE ORIGINAL TEXT.

Page xiii: 'attack of the following colums' corrected to 'columns'.

Page lxiii: (Table of Contents) Sec. 8. Monotony and falsehood... 239
corrected to 230.

Page 34: 'attained with greater porportional' corrected to
'proportional'.

Page 74: 'exquisite truths of specfic' corrected to 'specific'.

Page 84: 'things as in the right exhbition' corrected to 'exhibition'.

Page 89: 'man's working from nature comtinually' changed to
'continually'.

Page 146: 'But I allow this inferiority only with respect to the
paintings,' superfluous comma omitted.

Page 277: 'But the vignette of Aosta, in the Italy', 'the' omitted.

Page 281: 'lateral chains separated rll' corrected to 'all'.

Footnote 41: Comma after Esq changed to pe