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Monthly Review of Literature, 



[JUNE, 



Classical Family Library Theophras- 

 tus. These little sketches of characters 

 existing in far distant ages, and under 

 institutions, the effects of which we can 

 with difficulty trace, have yet in them 

 much that depends wholly upon the 

 nature of man, and which will, like the 

 poor, never depart from the land. An 

 attempt has been made by an able artist 

 to delineate the expressions of these 

 characters in a series of portraits, of 

 which, though some must be regarded 



as very like failures, many are admir- 

 able, and worthy the pencil of Cruik- 

 shank. Caricature could alone have 

 been at all effective. The value of the 

 book is greatly enhanced by these illus- 

 trations. 



Cabinet Library, Vol. IF. The volume 

 concludes the annual retrospect of public 

 affairs. A very spirited sketch, with too 

 much of detail far too minute and 

 lengthy for the occasion. 



FINE ARTS' PUBLICATIONS. 



NINE numbers of the Views in the 

 East have now appeared, and the work 

 in its advancement loses nothing of the 

 interest and excellence with which it 

 commenced. The engravings of the 

 eight and ninth parts comprise views of 

 the Mosque of Mustapha Khan, Beeja- 

 pore ; Ruins south side of old Delhi, 

 very bright and picturesque ; King's 

 Fort, Boorhanpore ; Pagodah, between 

 Canton and Whampoa ; Hindoo Temple 

 at Chandngoan ; Grass Rope Bridge at 

 Teree, Gurwall ; which last is one of 

 the most curious and beautiful of the 

 series. The value of these views is con- 

 siderably enhanced by the information 

 contained in the historical notes and de- 

 scriptions that accompany them. 



The additions made to the National 

 Portrait Gallery in the two numbers of 

 that work recently published, are far 

 from being among the least interesting, 

 either as regards the subjects selected, 

 or the character of the engravings. 

 George the Fourth is at the head of 

 them ; then follow John Heaviside, Esq., 

 Admiral Duncan, the Duke of Sussex 

 (from a picture by Phillips, not remark- 

 able for its likeness, and in a dress that 

 amounts to a disguise,) Curran (from 

 Lawrence's portrait, cloudy and charac- 

 teristic,) and the Marquis Cornwallis. 

 Most of these may be classed among the 



best executed and highly finished en- 

 gravings that have appeared in this ad- 

 mirable collection. The lives contain 

 more original and selected information 

 than could have been expected in the 

 space, although the tone of them seems 

 to be somewhat too eulogistic. 



The Landscape Illustrations of the' 

 Waverley Novels continue to hold their 

 station among the best publications of 

 this class of art ; the new embellishments 

 are Solway Lands, Redgauntlet ; Stir- 

 ling Castle. Waverley; Warncliffe, 

 Ivanhoe; Links of Eymouth, Bride of 

 Lammermoor ; Home Castle, the Anti- 

 quary ; Maver Glen, Black Dwarf; and 

 Warwick Castle, and Warwick from the 

 Kenilworth Road, Kenilworth. Of the 

 artists, Copley Fielding, if not more 

 successful, has been far more industrious 

 than his competitors, having contributed 

 several of these designs, many of which 

 are very beautiful, and all being exe- 

 cuted in Finden's happiest manner. 



We have again to commend, which 

 we do most cordially, the taste and beauty 

 of the outlines of Painting and Sculpture 

 in the English School. The two numbers 

 before us contain outlines of some of the 

 choicest productions of Reynolds, Ho- 

 garth, Gainsborough, Collins, West- 

 macott, Bacon, Stanfield, &c. 



WORKS IN THE PRESS AND NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



WORKS IN THE PRESS. 



By Henry Lavves Long, Esq. : The 

 Route of Hannibal from the Rhone to 

 the Alps. 



By Dr. Biber : An Account of the 

 Life and Writings of Henry Pestalozzi ; 

 with copious Extracts from his Works, 

 selected chiefly with a view to illustrate 

 the practical parts of his Method of In- 

 struction. 



By the Rev. E. Bowles : The Life of 

 Thomas Kerr, deprived Bishop of Bath 

 and Wells, Vol. II., including the pe- 

 riod of Fanatical Puritanism, from 1640 

 to the death of Cromwell. 



By the Author of the Castillian : Paris 

 and London, a Satirical Novel. 



By D. E. Williams : The Naval and 

 Military Battles of England during the 

 last two Reigns. 



Edited by Miss Jane Porter: Sir 

 Edward Seaward's Narrative of his Ship- 

 wreck, and consequent Discovery of cer- 

 tain Islands in the Caribean Sea, with a 

 Detail of many extraordinary and inter- 

 esting Events in his Life, from the year 

 1733 to 1749, as written in his own Diary. 



By Thomas Moore, Esq. : The Life 

 and Death of Lord Edward Fitz-Gerald, 

 in two volumes, with a portrait. 



