PAINTING

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In Painting, a species of painlins with a vehicle composed of oil and water, invented by M. Vincent of Montpetit. Its object is to add the fresh appearance of water colours and the extreme finish of miniature painting to Ihe mellowne ofoU colours. Not, however, having seen any specimen of it, we are unable to state from our own knowledge whel bjects hava been attained KIVSIUM. or the ELY8IAN FIELDft (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In Mythology, the region to which the smiis of the virtuous were said by the poets to be transported after death. They are variously represented as a part of the Infernal realms, or islands situated in Ihe Western Ocean beyond the Columns of Hercules. The enjoyments of the ble ed spirits in this abode were held to consist in the same pursuits that were their delight on earth, carried on in a calmer and happier climate: beautifully described in the well-known pa age (Ody . iv. 563) — AXXa a' is nXvaiov wtiwv tcai irapara yairis, . Thus admirably rendered by the late A. Moore:— Thee to the Klysian plain*, earth's farthest end, Where Hh.ul.imniithii." dwells, the gods shall tend; There mortals easiest pa the carele hour; There neither winter conies, nor snow, nor shower; But ocean ever, to refresh mankind, breathe, the shrill spirit of the western wind. A tract on the coast of Camp an i a was also termed the Eh/sian Fields. [s. 409]