As a man, Mr. West’s characteristics were kindness and warmth of heart. From accordant feelings, he painted with delight and energy some of the most affecting incidents in the New Testament history. His “Christ healing the sick” will be remembered by all who saw it, with reverend solemnity. In his “Christ Rejected,” the various bad passions in the malignant spectators and abettors of the outrage; the patient suffering of the great and all-enduring character; the sympathizing feelings of his adherents; and the general accessories, are great lineaments of the designer’s power. His “Death on the Pale Horse,” and more especially the sketch for that painting, express masterly thought and conception. These are Mr. West’s “large” pictures. Some of his smaller ones and his sketches, the beholder studies and lingers over till his limbs and body tire; and he leaves the large assemblage of paintings in “West’s Gallery” with a conviction, that no artist has yet fully occupied his place. Perhaps there is only _one_ who would have designed the “Death on the Pale Horse” more effectively, and _he_ would have had no compeer--Mr. Fuseli; whose compositions are of a higher order than those of any other in this country, and will be duly estimated when the price set upon his works cannot be useful to their author. No one is valued till he is dead; after the last sigh has sobbed from the body, comes the time for some to suspect that they had inflicted pangs upon its infirmity when living, and a desire to know more of a man, the rufflings of whose dying pillow the breath of their friendship might have smoothed, and whom, to the extent of their comprehension they might have known, if their little feelings, in a state too easy, had not excluded him from their society. * * * * * FLORAL DIRECTORY. Upright Chickweed. _Veronica triphyllos._ Dedicated to _St. Droctavæus_. [17] Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary, London edit. vol. v. p. 367. ~March 11.~ _St. Eulogius_ of Cordova, A. D. 859. _St. Sophronius_, Patriarch of Jerusalem, A. D. 640. _St. Ængus_, Bishop, A. D. 824. _St. Constantine_, 6th Cent. CHRONOLOGY. 1752. Papers were affixed in the avenues to both houses of parliament, giving notice that the farmers and their servants intended to destroy the pheasant and partridge eggs, and leverets, if the country gentlemen, who had entered into an association for the preservation of game, did not desist. There were sad hearts at this time between the owners and occupiers of land, from the obnoxiousness of the game laws, and the severity of their execution. * * * * * FLORAL DIRECTORY. Cornish Heath. _Erica vaguus._ Dedicated to _St. Eulogius_. ~March 12.~ _St. Gregory the Great._ _St. Maximilian_, A. D. 296. _St. Paul_, Bishop of Leon, about 573. _St. Gregory the Great._