The Argosy — page 220: what you’re looking at

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A Ramble on Copper. 201 meed not trouble themselves to find excuses for. <A true etching cannot be translated by an oil-picture, anda perfect water-colour could mever have been expressed as well in any other medium. Every picture must have a central idea, written, as it were, in words which alone suit that idea, for true balance in every part is true power. Lastly, ‘‘ whoever lives true life will love true love.” So will our artists paint beautiful pictures if they cling to their true ideas, and learn to express them in singleness of heart, without any regard to the blighting influence of an ignorant public. Let them remember that the first President of the Painter-Etchers was an amateur, who rose to his height of fame without the help of artistic critics, but through love of his art, and the true love of nature which created his art. EsME STUART. LOVE AND SPRING. OnE far-off day, when Time was young, And Spring, a new-born fairy, About the world her mantle flung With many a sweet vagary, The chiming of the lily bells, Her dainty footsteps after, The busy brook, where rippling dwells Soft echo of her laughter, Awoke young Love, who sleeping lay ; Then up the urchin started, And vowed by all the buds of May They’d never more be parted. Her heart beneath its golden zone Grew lighter than a feather ; If Love and Spring are fair alone, What must they be together ? A power that earth to heaven uplifts— Ah, wisely was it fated, That two of Jove’s divinest gifts Should be for ever mated ! SYDNEY GREY. ECOMICELIOOOKS.EO© im