etermine on the name of his disorder.

"About the symptoms how they disagree,
But how unanimous about the fee!"

While the maid servant is entreating them to cease quarrelling, and
assist her dying mistress, the nurse plunders her trunk of the few poor
remains of former grandeur. Her little boy, turning a scanty remnant of
meat hung to roast by a string; the linen hanging to dry; the coals
deposited in a corner; the candles, bellows, and gridiron hung upon
nails; the furniture of the room; and indeed every accompaniment;
exhibit a dreary display of poverty and wretchedness. Over the candles
hangs a cake of Jew's Bread, once perhaps the property of her Levitical
lover, and now used as a fly-trap. The initials of her name, M. H. are
smoked upon the ceiling as a kind of _memento mori_ to the next
inhabitant. On the floor lies a paper inscribed "anodyne necklace," at
that time deemed a sort of charm against the disorders incident to
children; and near the fire, a tobacco-pipe, and paper of pills.

A picture of general, and at this awful moment, indecent confusion, is
admirably represented. The noise of two enraged quacks disputing in bad
English; the harsh, vulgar scream of the maid servant; the table
falling, and the pot boiling over, must produce a combination of sounds
dreadful and dissonant to the ear. In this pitiable situation, without a
friend to close her dying eyes, or soften her sufferings by a tributary
tear; forlorn, destitute, and deserted, the heroine of this eventful
history expires! her premature death, brought on by a licentious life,
seven years of which had been devoted to debauchery and dissipation, and
attended by consequent infamy, misery, and disease. The whole story
affords a valuable lesson to the young and inexperienced, and proves
this great, this important truth, that A DEVIATION FROM VIRTUE IS A
DEPARTURE FROM HAPPINESS.

The emaciated appearance of the dying figure, the boy's thoughtless
inattention, and the rapacious, unfeeling eagerness of the old nurse,
are naturally and forcibly delineated.

The figures are well grouped; the curtain gives depth, and forms a good
back-ground to the doctor's head; the light is judiciously distributed,
and each accompaniment highly appropriate.

[Illustration: THE HARLOT'S PROGRESS.

PLATE 5.

EXPIRES WHILE THE DOCTORS ARE DISPUTING.]

THE HARLOT'S PROGRESS.

PLATE VI.

"No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear,
Pleas'd