text:  Take such a subject as the "Judgment of Solomon:" is not the "event suspended " and a breathless anxiety portrayed in the characters and freely acknowledged by the sympathy of the spectator? Is there no mark of this "curiosity" in the "Cartoon of Pisa?" The trumpet has sounded the soldiers are some half-dressed some out of the water others bathing; one is anxiously looking for the rising of his companion who has just plunged in and we see but his hands above the water; the very range of rocks behind which the danger is shown to come tends to excite our curiosity; we form conjectures of the enemy their number nearness of approach and from among the manly warriors before us form episodes of heroism in the great intimated epic: and have we not seen pictures by Rembrandt where "curiosity" delights to search unsatisfied and unsatiated into the mysteries of colour and chiaro-scuro receding further as we look into an atmosphere pregnant with all uncertain things? We think we have not mistaken the President's meaning