This is not the kind of picture we are ordinarily accustomed to see from the pencil of Mr. Lewis, whose specialty is landscape painting. Whether or not he is a trout fisherman, we do not know, but he certainly loves to hover about the spots “where the trout lies.” by swift running streams, by mill races, and mill tails; and it is therefore scarcely matter of surprise that he should, during some one or other of these expeditions, have been tempted to see if there chanced to be anything inside the mill worth transferring to his canvas. Hence, it may be presumed, is the origin of this picture which when is exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1867, arrested attention by the novelty of the subject, at which the painter had rendered it. No title was appended to the work, but two lines from the Tennyson gave a clue to the composition:-