ing principle between mufic and dancing is what the ancients
called rythmus, or what we call time and meafure. 5 th. There
are few i f any countries in Europe in which eminence in literature
and fcience has been io much noticed by the court as in
Sweden. T he order o f knighthood and other marks o f diftinc-
tion have been beftowed on different profeffors to a degree o f al-
moft profufion. In general the literary character in Sweden is
held in high refpedl and eftimation. It is an obieit o f ambition
with men o f bufinefs in eafy and proiperous circumftances, and
even with the nobility and gentry. Here it may be mentioned
that Guiiavus III. towards the end o f the year 1778, conducted
the prince royal, the prefent king o f Sweden, to the univerfity o f
Upiala, and affifled at all the public, and the greateft part o f the
private exercifes performed by the young prince during a flay o f
fix weeks. . T he ardour and fucceis with which he applied to his
ftudies at the early age o f eight or nine years, was highly gratifying
to the king, who, in order to familiarize him with the people,
whom he was born to govern, and to give him an early knowledge
o f the kingdom, had already accompanied him over feveral o f the
provinces.
CH A P T E R IX.
The annual' Exhibition o f PiShtres at Stockholm— Academy o f Painting
and Sculpture— Account o f fame dijlingmfhed Painters, and
their ProduSlhns— Some Works <f the Dilettanti.
f 1 "'HE exhibition o f pictures at Stockholm every year, in the
.month o f February, is a fubjedt o f elegant amufement as-
well-as inftrudtion. It is open to every one, and nothing Is paid
for admittance. Here the gentlemen and ladies o f Stockholm
aflemble in crowds, in order to encourage, by theif approbation
and applaufe, the efforts o f genius. It is no fmall praife to fay o f
this collcftion, that it is well worthy to be feen by foreigners o f
every country as well as Swedes. Here is perceived, at one view,
the Rate o f the arts in Sweden; and you are enabled not only to
form fome opinion o f the powers o f the artifts, but alfo o f the general
tafte and judgment o f the nation. Every one declares his
fentiments with regard to the pieces without referve, though there
be always fome lady or gentleman who takes the lead, and diredls
the general tone o f praife or cenfure. W h at is not a little curious,
the painters themfelves are frequently prefent, and very bufily employed
in attempts to guide the public judgment. I noticed one
artifi