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 THE FINE ARTS. 



BYRON BEAUTIES. A Series of ideal Portraits of the principal 

 Female Characters in Lord Byron's Poems. W. and E. FIN DEN. 

 Charles Tilt, London. Part IV. 



No class of productions so strongly marks the bearing of public taste, 

 as the one before us ; and it is a bearing we are pleased to witness. 

 Beauty has always a tendency to refine to spiritualize, if you will the 

 human passions ; and therefore it is that we rejoice to look over the Byron 

 Beauties. But, as lovers of art for its own sake, this work delights us, 

 and it adds another wreath to the well-earned reputation of the Firidens. 

 The three plates which make up the present number are varied in their 

 character ; and they present woman in three very opposite aspects ro- 

 mance, maternal love, and passion. They are finely imagined " beau- 

 tiful exceedingly," and we need not say splendidly executed. 



WINKLES'S CATHEDRALS. Salisbury and Canterbury. Nos. II. 

 and III. Effingham Wilson, and C. Tilt, London. 



This work proceeds well. Here are six engravings of the highest excel- 

 lence, both graphic and architectural, for two shillings ! It will bring 

 within reach of almost every body a branch of the Fine Arts which has 

 hitherto been a luxury for the wealthy. 



History of the British Fishes. By WILLIAM YARRELL, F.L.S. 



No. I. John Van Voorst, London. 



We class this work under the head " Fine Arts," on account of the 

 admirable skill displayed in the plates. They are by far the finest speci- 

 mens of wood-cutting, as applied to the illustration of natural history, 

 with which we are acquainted. The work is worthy in every way to be 

 placed side by side with Bewick. The descriptive part is good, but a 

 little too scientific. It is a work which was much wanted, and we are 

 glad to see the subject so ably taken up. 



Illustrations pf the Bible. Part XI. By WESTALL and MARTIN. 



Edward Churton, London. 



The idea of uniting Westall and Martin in this work was excellent. 

 In this number we have, "Daniel in the Lions' Den," " Ruth gleaning in 

 the Field of Boaz," &c. from Westall; and " Esther's Feast," the " Fall 

 of Babylon, "a and "The Destruction of Nineveh," from Martin. The 

 number is fully equal to its predecessors. The work deserves to be as it 

 is popular. 



Landscape Illustrations of Allan Cunningham's Edition of Burns. 



Cochrane and Co., London. 



A set of gems, of the most touching beauty. No man should be without 

 these plates who has an edition of Burns nor should any one who values 

 the exquisite in art fail to procure it. It is in fact complete in itself, 

 the descriptions being original. We know not that we ever gazed longer, 

 and with deeper emotion, on any picture, than on that of the birth-place 

 of Burns in this work. It is perfectly simple, yet full of poetry. The 

 views of Ayr, of the Birks of Aberfeldy, and of Dumfries, are extremely 

 beautiful, though it is invidious even to select these from the rest. 



