cted over again.

In speaking of M. Macaire and his adventures, we have managed so
entirely to convince ourselves of the reality of the personage, that we
have quite forgotten to speak of Messrs. Philipon and Daumier, who are,
the one the inventor, the other the designer, of the Macaire Picture
Gallery. As works of esprit, these drawings are not more remarkable than
they are as works of art, and we never recollect to have seen a series
of sketches possessing more extraordinary cleverness and variety. The
countenance and figure of Macaire and the dear stupid Bertrand are
preserved, of course, with great fidelity throughout; but the
admirable way in which each fresh character is conceived, the grotesque
appropriateness of Robert's every successive attitude and gesticulation,
and the variety of Bertrand's postures of invariable repose, the
exquisite fitness of all the other characters, who act their little
part and disappear from the scene, cannot be described on paper, or too
highly lauded. The figures are very carelessly drawn; but, if the reader
can understand us, all the attitudes and limbs are perfectly CONCEIVED,
and wonderfully natural and various. After pondering over these drawings
for some hours, as we have been while compiling this notice of them,
we have grown to believe that the personages are real, and the scenes
remain imprinted on the brain as if we had absolutely been present at
their acting. Perhaps the clever way in which the plates are colored,
and the excellent effect which is put into each, may add to this
illusion. Now, in looking, for instance, at H. B.'s slim vapory figures,
they have struck us as excellent LIKENESSES of men and women, but
no more: the bodies want spirit, action, and individuality. George
Cruikshank, as a humorist, has quite as much genius, but he does not
know the art of "effect" so well as Monsieur Daumier; and, if we might
venture to give a word of advice to another humorous designer, whose
works are extensively circulated--the illustrator of "Pickwick" and
"Nicholas Nickleby,"--it would be to study well these caricatures of
Monsieur Daumier; who, though he executes very carelessly, knows
very well what he would express, indicates perfectly the attitude and
identity of his figure, and is quite aware, beforehand, of the effect
which he intends to produce. The one we should fancy to be a practised
artist, taking his ease; the other, a young one, somewhat bewildered:
a very clever