In the first place, the Pre-Perspective Brotherhood will be presently
incorporated, for the subversion of all known rules and principles of
perspective. It is intended to swear every P. P. B. to a solemn
renunciation of the art of perspective on a soup-plate of the willow
pattern; and we may expect, on the occasion of the eighty-third Annual
Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Art in England, to see some pictures
by this pious Brotherhood, realising HOGARTH’S idea of a man on a
mountain several miles off, lighting his pipe at the upper window of a
house in the foreground. But we are informed that every brick in the
house will be a portrait; that the man’s boots will be copied with the
utmost fidelity from a pair of Bluchers, sent up out of Northamptonshire
for the purpose; and that the texture of his hands (including four
chilblains, a whitlow, and ten dirty nails) will be a triumph of the
Painter’s art.
A Society, to be called the Pre-Newtonian Brotherhood, was lately
projected by a young gentleman, under articles to a Civil Engineer, who
objected to being considered bound to conduct himself according to the
laws of gravitation. But this young gentleman, being reproached by some
aspiring companions with the timidity of his conception, has abrogated
that idea in favour of a Pre-Galileo Brotherhood now flourishing, who
distinctly refuse to perform any annual revolution round the Sun, and
have arranged that the world shall not do so any more. The course to be
taken by the Royal Academy of Art in reference to this Brotherhood is
not yet decided upon; but it is whispered that some other large
Educational Institutions in the neighbourhood of Oxford are nearly ready
to pronounce in favour of it.
Several promising Students connected with the Royal College of Surgeons
have held a meeting, to protest against the circulation of the blood,
and to pledge themselves to treat all the patients they can get, on
principles condemnatory of that innovation. A Pre-Harvey-Brotherhood is
the result, from which a great deal may be expected—by the undertakers.
In literature, a very spirited effort has been made, which is no less
than the formation of a P. G. A. P. C. B., or Pre-Gower and
Pre-Chaucer-Brotherhood, for the restoration of the ancient English
style of spelling, and the weeding out from all libraries, public and
private, of those and all later pretenders, particularly a person of
loose character named SHAKESPEARE. It having been suggested, however,
that this happy idea could scarcely be considered complete while the art
of printing was permitted to remain unmolested, another society, under
the name of the Pre-Laurentius Brotherhood, has been established in
connexion with it, for the abolition of all but manuscript books. These
MR. PUGIN has engaged to supply, in characters that nobody on earth
shall be able to read. And it is confidently expected by those who have
seen the House of Lords, that he will faithfully redeem his pledge.
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