text:  He did not like the "sulphur and treacle" of "our Scotch connoisseurs;" but what colours has he not added here to his sulphur--colours too that we fear for the "idea of truth" cannot coexist! And how in the name of optics could it be possible for any painter to take in all this with the "_fathomless intervals_ " into an angle of vision of forty-five degrees? It is quite superfluous to ask "who is likest this Turner or Poussin?" There immediately follows a remark upon another picture in the National Gallery the "Mercury and Woodman " by Salvator Rosa than which nothing can be more untrue to the original