his ragged shirt is trimmed with a pair of paper
ruffles. The old woman, and a fish which she is pointing at, have a
striking resemblance. The abundance of parsnips, and other vegetables,
indicate what are the leading articles in a Lenten feast.

Mr. Pine, the painter, sat for the friar, and from thence acquired the
title of Father Pine. This distinction did not flatter him, and he
frequently requested that the countenance might be altered, but the
artist peremptorily refused.

[Illustration: GATE OF CALAIS.

"O THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND."]

THE POLITICIAN.

"A politician should (as I have read)
Be furnish'd in the first place with a head."

One of our old writers gives it as his opinion, that "there are onlie
two subjects which are worthie the studie of a wise man," i.e. religion
and politics. For the first, it does not come under inquiry in this
print,--but certain it is, that too sedulously studying the second, has
frequently involved its votaries in many most tedious and unprofitable
disputes, and been the source of much evil to many well-meaning and
honest men. Under this class comes the Quidnunc here pourtrayed; it is
said to be intended for a Mr. Tibson, laceman, in the Strand, who paid
more attention to the affairs of Europe, than to those of his own shop.
He is represented in a style somewhat similar to that in which Schalcken
painted William the third,--holding a candle in his right hand, and
eagerly inspecting the Gazetteer of the day. Deeply interested in the
intelligence it contains, concerning the flames that rage on the
Continent, he is totally insensible of domestic danger, and regardless
of a flame, which, ascending to his hat,--

"Threatens destruction to his three-tail'd wig."

From the tie-wig, stockings, high-quartered shoes, and sword, I should
suppose it was painted about the year 1730, when street robberies were
so frequent in the metropolis, that it was customary for men in trade to
wear swords, not to preserve their religion and liberty from foreign
invasion, but to defend their own pockets from "domestic collectors."

The original sketch Hogarth presented to his friend Forrest; it was
etched by Sherwin, and published in 1775.

[Illustration: THE POLITICIAN.]

TASTE IN HIGH LIFE,

IN THE YEAR 1742.

The picture from which this print was copied, Hogarth painted by the
order of Miss Edwards, a woman of large fortune, who having been laughed
at for