MILTON's touching and incomparable Il Penseroso furnishes our artist another fine subject, the grace and beauty of which we are confident will be admired. The metaphor which has been seized upon for illustration, singled out of the group of inimitable images which compose the Poem, is the following:

Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure,

All in a robe of darkest grain,

Flowing with majestic train,

And sable stole of Cyprus lawn,
Over thy decent shoulders drawn.
Come, but keep thy wonted state,
With even step, and musing gait,
And looks commercing with the skies,
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes:
There, held in holy passion still,
Forget thyself to marble, till,
With a sad leaden downward cast,
Thou fix them on the earth as fast:

And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet,
Spare Fast, that oft with Gods doth diet,

And hears the Muses, in a ring,

Aye round about Jove's altar sing.

THE beautiful plate which accompanies our present issue tells its own tale, and imparts a lesson to the impressiveness of which language could but little add. Penitence for wrong-doing, inspired by kindly yet judicious and firm parental discipline, and the joy of forgiveness based upon sincere amendment, are indicated in a striking manner by the painter's touch. There is a world of instruction in the sentiments expressed in the attitude and looks of these participants of the family scene, which unquestionably it entered into the

purpose of the artist to represent. Winterhalter is a German by birth; but by long residence has been naturalized in England, where he enjoys great reputation as a painter of graceful and unpretending compositions, and especially of portraits. His fine drawing and delicate execution make him a favorite artist with the aristocracy. He must now be somewhat advanced in life. The present is an early picture, more decidedly German in its line and accessories than his more recent pictures.