and the red eye of Aldebaran," and those wandering England. Commencing with a short account of early lights which to the Baktrio-Iranians were, on account of English art, the sketch is brought to a conclusion with their seemingly irregular motions, evil beings, and have notices of Frederick Walker and Rossetti. In most cases been in much later days regarded by unscientific specu- when works of painters of whom he treats are to be lators as the abodes of lost souls. To us moderns, how-seen in any of our public institutions, Mr. Wilmot-Buxton ever ignorant we may be, the idea of time is regulated by refers his readers to the gallery where the pictures may a multitude of trivial events of daily and almost hourly be found. The subject of which Mr. Koehler treats, that occurrence, and but very few of us ever look back to a of painting in America, is necessarily more limited in period when it had to be worked out bit by bit. Mr. its scope. The earliest native painter whom he menBrown has done this thoroughly well in his own deeply tions is one Robert Feke, who painted in Philadelphia learned fashion. We cannot profess to follow him in all in the middle of the last century. The writer does not his speculations as to the signs of the zodiac. Much that attempt to gloss over the want of originality and the he affirms is no doubt true; but the questions involved absence of national element which are so remarkable in are so very obscure, and the information that has come the works of American painters; but he considers the down to us so fragmentary, that we may be forgiven for fault to lie with the American public rather than with not seeing everything as he does. The book is, however, the artists themselves. The volume, we may add, is an important contribution to science, which no future plentifully illustrated with engravings of pictures by investigator in the same field can afford to overlook. We both English and American artists. would especially direct attention to the section headed "The Reign of Law," some of the remarks in which are not only true, but very needful to be pondered on at a time when the facts of science are accumulating so fast that the organizing faculty is sometimes overtasked to arrange them,

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