text:  How rarely is it we see even a subject of any value or interest attempted! It is as in our play-writing not the subject but the peculiarity of some actor that is to be written up to; so the peculiarities of some few flashy favourite artists employ our best engravers who ought to be far otherwise employed in making transcripts from the best works ancient or modern by which taste may be improved the mind enlarged and the heart made to feel as it ought