many; still we may believe and hope that so melancholy an example rarely occurs.
J. Vanderlyn.'
The Art-Union of New-York have struck a commemorative
medal, with Allston's face on the obverse
side; and thus is the great artist rewarded.
Genius, that breaks the fetters encircling the mind, is fated to drink life's bitterest cup to the dregs. After earth has flung the gem away, she proclaims its value.
Reformers must be martyrs. Every Socrates must quaff his hemlock—every Burns pine in unpitied poverty. In life, the artist appears on the reverse side of the world's medal—in death, on the obverse."—Dewey Fay.
AMERICAN PATRONAGE AT HOME AND ABROAD.
The writer has frequently heard our artists bitterly
complain of the meanness of their countrymen
in patronizing everything foreign, not only at home
but abroad. It is mortifying enough to them to see
the palaces of many of our merchant princes disgraced,
not adorned, with a multitude of modern flashy
French pictures, without a single piece by a native
artist. How cutting then must be the slight to
those young artists, who, having gone to Italy for
improvement, are visited in their studios, by their
countrymen, who, desirous of bringing home some
copies of favorite pictures, give their commissions
to foreigners. Our young artists, during their resi-
