" WERNER " BY MACLISE.
The admirers of Mr. Macready will be glad to learn that one of his most famous personations has received permanence in a recent picture by Maclise ; more especially so now that the last opportuniof witnessing its actual presentment is announced to have passed. The painter has selected the first scene of the tragedy, and has combined a living likeness of the man with the dramatic attributes of the character—the haggard aspect and sickness of self-contemplation. Nor is the figure a mere theatrical portrait. The scene is invented, not copied from the stage : it is less Macready as Werner than Werner embodied in Macready. The accessory figure of Zosephine owes nothing to the theatre, and not much, indeed, to the drama—at least in point of years. The work belongs to Mr. Forster. It is now on view at Mr. Ho- garth's in the Haymarket, and in course of engraving ; and is certainly the best dramatic portrait of Macready that has been made public.
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