text:  But beautiful as their works may be can we place our Reynolds Lawrence Hogarth and Gainsborough in competition with Raphael Correggio Rubens or Claude? In sculpture also can Westmacott or even Chantrey--we speak with reverence of the illustrious dead--be compared with Michael Angelo or Giovanni de Bologna? When pressed on these topics the candid Englishman must with a sigh confess his country's inferiority