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The series of engravings thus completed, while they present no characters on which the members of the Arundel Society can justifiably pride themselves, have, nevertheless, a real and effective value, if considered as a series of maps of the Arena frescoes Few artists of e studies of detached portions of the decoration of this Chapel, while no artist has tiraved with advantage, their place in the series being at once determinable by reference to the woodcuts; while qualities of expression could often be obtained in engravings of single figures, which are sure to be lost in an entire subject The most refined character is occasionally dependent on a few happy and light touches, which, in a single head, are effective, but are too feeble to bear due part in an entire composition, while, in the endeavour to reinforce them, their vitality is lost I believe the members of the Arundel Society will perceive, eventually, that no copies of works of great art are worthily representative of them but such as are reat painters: the best results obtainable by mechanical effort will only be charts or plans of pictures, not reat number as possible, and with all attainable co entered on its true functions until it has obtained the hearty co-operation of European artists, and by the increase of itsthe subtle studies of