MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND ART. 



PORTRAITS OF THE PRINCIPAL FEMALE CHARACTERS IN THE WAVERLEY 



NOVELS. PART VI. LONDON : CHAPMAN AND HALL. 

 The subjects contained in this part are prettily treated. The engraving is 

 well executed, and effective. Alice Lee, after Chalon, is modest, yet high- 

 bred ; the action of the figure is simple and elegant the costume tastefully 

 composed, Green Mantle, by Parris, attracts the eye with brightness ; the 

 hair and jewellery are luxuriantly designed. The remaining characters are 

 The White Lady, after H. Howard, R.A. ; and Lady Augusta, from the paint- 

 ing of J. M. Wright. 



THE SPIRIT OF THE PLAYS OF SHAKSPEARE. No. XXL DRAWN AND 



ENGRAVED BY F. HOWARD. 



We should have been inclined to commend the enterprising spirit evinced 

 in this work, however inadequately the artist may have performed his task, 

 were not any praise we could bestow rendered superfluous by the artist in 

 this concluding number. Had such a piece of undeserved panegyrick been 

 penned by an indiscreet friend, one might have pitied Mr. Howard, in fancy- 

 ing the many modest blushes it must have occasioned him; but seeing that 

 his own name is subscribed to this braggadocio postscript, it is incumbent on 

 us to state that we cannot perceive any originality of conception, any fine 

 touches of character or expression, or any masterly drawing, throughout 

 these outlines ; they are, however, cleverly etched they denote a taste for 

 composition, and an industrious study of costume. But these merits surely 

 do not justify an assumed superiority over the outlines of Retzch and 

 Ftaxman, or warrant the assertion that the designs are as varied as the author 

 they profess to illustrate ! 



THE TYROL. BY H. D. INGLIS. LONDON : WHITAKER & Co. 

 GIFTED as he is with a spirit of profound observation and philosophical 

 deduction, we always peruse Mr. Inglis's works with pleasure and interest. 

 In the two volumes before us, he has so skilfully grouped his materials, that 

 the scenes he describes pass before us with all the graphic fidelity of 

 a moving panorama. Had he sojourned longer in a land comparatively so 

 little known, as the Tyrol, we should have gladly hailed from his able pen 

 a well-digested chapter on the machinery of government, the civil and cri- 

 minal code, and the system of fiscalization of those interesting regions. 

 What little he has said on the subject, places in odious relievo the Machia- 

 velian policy of the arch Metterriich. The sketch of the Tyrolean Cam- 

 paign, and the fate of the heroic Hoffer, is extremely spirited. There is, 

 however, one section of the work, treating as it does a question of geogra- 

 phical science, that we cannot pass over in silence. We allude to the chap- 

 ter on rivers, which is not written in the style we should have expected from 

 so well-informed and intelligent a traveller as Mr. Inglis on other subjects. 

 In the first place, his classification is throughout " en contresens." He 

 places in the second rank only the Mississippi and the St. Lawrence ! The 

 length of the latter is 2120 miles, that of the former, including its branch the 

 Missouri, is 5596 being the longest river on the face of the earth ! He 

 makes no mention of those great American streams, Madeira, Tapajoz, 

 Xingu, Tocantins, and Rio Negro, and totally passes over the monarch of 

 the European system the mighty Volga, with its majestic course of about 

 1000 leagues. But this is not all ; for a little farther on he gravely asserts, 



