We had penciled for our Supplement the following beautiful lines from Mr. Watts's "Literary Souvenir," but they will be more in place here. _Silbury_ is an immense mound adjoining the road to Devizes, and opposite Abury; Sir R.C. Hoare thinks it part of Abury; but H. and many others think it the sepulchre of a King or Arch-Druid. SILBURY HILL. Grave of Cunedha, were it vain to call For one wild lay of all that buried lie Beneath thy giant mound? From Tara's hall Faint warblings yet are heard, faint echoes die Among the Hebrides: the ghost that sung In Ossian's ear, yet wails in feeble cry On Morvern: but the harmonies that rung Around the grove and cromlech, never more Shall visit earth: for ages have unstrung The Druid's harp, and shrouded all his lore, Where under the world's ruin sleep in gloom The secrets of the flood,--the letter'd store, Which Seth's memorial pillars from the doom Preserved not, when the sleep was Nature's tomb. H. * * * * * FINE ARTS (_For the Mirror_.) * * * * * "The way to be an excellent painter is to be an excellent man--and these united, make a character that would shine even in a better world than this."--JONATHAN RICHARDSON. The sister arts of _Painting and Engraving_ have been making great progress in England for some time past, and we are disposed to think this a subject of congratulation and importance to all classes of the community. The literature of the Fine Arts is likewise becoming more and more popular every day. They form a prominent feature in every new literary project, and not unfrequently literature, to use a hackneyed phrase, is made their vehicle--like the namby-pamby of an English opera for the strains of Rossini or Weber. The public are contented with excellence in one department and mediocrity in the other; they cannot be constantly admiring--that is out of the question--and it is probably on this account that much of what appears _below par_ is tolerated and even encouraged. We will not go the length of assenting to the proposal of converting Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures into Sermons, by the mere alteration of the terms of art into scriptural phraseology; but we venture to assert that much national good is likely to result from these advances of art, and its constant introduction into all our amusements. That it promotes the growth of virtue is too old an axiom to be refuted: ----Ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse feros.