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desire to become acquainted with Raphael's works. The taste which he now formed, made him change his Bolognian manner for one more learned, but less natural in the design and in the colouring. Augustine followed his brother to assist him in his undertaking of the Farnese gallery ; but the brothers not rightly agreeing, the Cardinal sent Augustine to the court of the Duke of Parma, where he died in the year 1602 , being only fortyfive years of age. His most celebrated piece is that of the communion of St. Jerome, in Bologna. In the meanwhile Annabale continued working in the gallery at Rome ; and, after inconceivable labour and care, finished the paintings in a style altogether unparalleled. He hoped that the Cardinal would have rewarded him in some proportion to the excellence of his work, and the time it occupied, which was eight years but he was disappointed. His employer influenced by an ignorant Spaniard, a domestic, gave him little more than two hundred pounds, though it is certain he deserved more than twice as many thousands. When the money was brought him he was so surprised, that he could not speak a word to the person who brought it. The injustice confirmed him in a melancholy to which his temper naturally inclined, and made him resolve never more to touch his pencil ; which resolution he undoubtedly would have kept, had his necessities not interfered. It is said that his depression at times was so great as to deprive him of his senses. He died in 1609, when he was only forty-nine years of age. His veneration for Raphael was so great, that his death-bed request was to be buried in the same tomb with him ; which was accordingly done in the Pantheon or Rotunda at Rome. There are several prints extant of the Blessed Virgin, by this incomparable artist ; an engraving from one of his best, we have herewith given to our readers. He is said to have been a friendly, plain, honest, and open-hearted man ; very communicative to his scholars, and so extremely kind to them, that he generally kept his money in the same box with his colours , where they might have recourse to either as they had occasion. LONDON FASHIONS FOR THE MONTH. WE are now fairly entered upon the fashionable winter, and a very brilliant one it is likely to prove. Promenade dress is more remarkable for comfort than novelty, cloaks are in general request, and muffs and fur tippets of the shawl form are almost universally adopted. The majority of bonnets are velvet, and of dark colours , but black ones are not as yet very