represented. There are exquisite Raphaels, one
especially, 'La Perla,' once belonging to our
Charles I., and sold by the Puritans to the Spanish
king ; the 'Spasimo,' the ' Vergin del Pesce,' &c. ;
beautiM Titians, not only portraits, but one, a
'Magdalen,' which is unknown to us by engravings
or photographs in England, where, in a green
robe, she is flying from the assaults of the devil,
represented by a monstrous dragon, and in which
the drawing is as wonderful as the colouring ;
beautiM G. Bellinis, and Luinis, and Andrea del
Sartos (especially one of his wife), and Paul
Veronese, and others of the Venetian and Mila-
nese schools. In a lower room there are Dutch
and Flemish chefe-d'oeuvre without end : Rubens,
and Vandyke, and Teniers, and Breughel, and
Holbein, and the rest. It is a gallery bewildering
from the number of its pictures, but with the rare
merit of almost all being good ; and they are so
arranged that the visitor can see them with
perfect comfort at any hour of the day. In the
ante-room to the long gallery are some pictures
of the present century, but none are worth looking
at save Goya's pictures of the wholesale masftacre
of the Spanish prisoners by the French, which are
not likely to soften the public feeling of bitter-
ness and hostility towards that nation.
