Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, Vol. 39: January and April, 1829
It is quite true that there are ignorant connoisseurs' who believe what he states, and among the number that ignorant connoisseur Sir Joshua Reynolds. As to the rest, our readers, who know any thing of the arts, will be able to appreciate the extent of Doctor Granville's acquaintance with the paintings of Rubens. The palace of the new University of Ghent founded by William I. Is certainly a noble building, and does infinite credit to the liberality and right feeling of the King of the N etherlands. Doctor Granville says, it is by far the handsomest architectural monument consecrated to the arts and sciences now existing in Europe. To this university there are three curators, nineteen professors, a secretary, inspector, and librarian. The number of students amounts already to more than five hundred. It con tains collections of natural history, particularly of zoology and mineralogy, of comparative anatomy, and of medals and in the library are upwards of sixty thousand volumes. There are also established an excellent botanical garden and a botanical society. The garden is extensive, tastefully laid out, and although in its inq fancy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.