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by tlie genius of Fuseli : the subject was the appearance of the ghost to Hamlet 

 during his interview with his mother ; — art could not go beyond the effect of this 

 extraordinary production ; to look at it was to shudder, and in spite of its cabinet 

 dimensions, to endow it with the illusiveness of reality, and dream ourselves con- 

 fronted with the disembodied " majesty of Denmark." Liversecge's habit of sketch- 

 ing was of course unfavourable to the development of his powers as a draughtsman, 

 and his figures are marked by too many neghgences of form to be perfectly satisfac- 

 tory to the fastidious eye ; these deficiencies naturally become more conspicuous in 

 the engravings, notwithstanding the talents and practical excellence of the artists 

 employed. The plates are, however, very beautiful. The cavalier, in the design 

 bearing the name, is too burly a personage for the beau-ideal of grace and gallantry ; 

 we cannot well think of a fair lady singing enraptured to this most Flemish-looking 

 gentleman. 



" Tresor de Ntimismatique et de Glyptique, ou Recueil general de medailles, 

 monnaies, pierres gravees, has reliefs, etc., tant anciens que modernes, les plus in- 

 teressajis sons le rapport de Vart et de Vhistoire ;" gravd par les procedes de M. 

 Achille CoUas, sous la direction de M. Paul Delaroche, Peintre, Membre de I'lnsti- 

 tut; de M. Henriquet Dupont, Graveur; et de M. Ch. Lenormant, consei-vateur- 

 adjoint du Cabinet des medailles et antiques de la Bibliotheque Royale. Paris, 

 Rue de Colombier 30, pres de la rue des Petits Augustins. 1834. Folio. 



We have received a prospectus with specimen plates, of a French work under the 

 above title, now in the course of publication. To say that the promised series will 

 eclipse anything of the kind which has hitherto appeared, is to say but little in 

 comparison with the rare and extraordinary merit of these engravings. Claude 

 Mellan's single stroke (without hatching) is adopted in the execution ; but the bold- 

 ness of that masterly hurinist is not to be sought in these unrivalled performances — 

 a sharpness, a purity and delicacy of tooling which we can but faintly describe, 

 added lo a perfect conception of the object to be represented, mark them to be as 

 distinct from the ineffective outlines which we have usually seen, as " gold sand 

 from barley chaflF." The precise state of the stone or medal is described, all the little 

 dints, and flaws and damages of time and accident are delineated, and the whole 

 effect is so exquisitely wrought up that there is nothing left for the eye to wish. 

 The " tresor" is indeed worthy its name, and we sincerely hope that the spirited 

 projectors will meet with adequate support. The numbers appear weekly, each 

 containing four plates, from' twelve to fifteen subjects, and from two to four pages of 

 descriptive letter-press : the plan comprehends three principal classes subdivided 

 into series ; viz: " Monumens antiques" (six series,) " Monumens du vioyeri age et 

 de Vhistoire moderne" (ten series,) and " Monumens de Vhistoire contemporaine" 

 (three series.) The price of each number is five francs ; proofs on India paper (12 

 copies only taken) ten. We strenuously recommend this unique and invaluable 

 series to the attention of the lover of art, as well as the virtuoso. 



" Fisher's Views in India, China, and on the Shores of the Red Sea ;" from 

 drawings after original sketches, by Commander Robert Elliott, R. N. 4 plates, 4to. 

 (Monthly.) 



Another of Fisher's splendid publications, and one possessing singular interest for 

 the European. Much of Oriental scenery is invested with the charm of poetry and 

 romance ; the cave, the tomb, the temple, the palace, the mosque and the pagoda ; 

 the city with its minarets, its ghauts and terraces, its pillars and towers, and sculp- 

 tured porticos intermingled with the foliage of the peepul, the tamarind and the 

 banian, steal upon the eye Uke a revelation of fairy-land. The wild and beauti- 

 ful, the gorgeous and magnificent features of Eastern lands are here assembled before 

 us in lavish profusion, and the tranquil stay-at-home, in the solitude of the boudoir 

 or the library, may wander at will through these regions of imperishable charm. The 

 engravings are of tlie same high class as those in Fisher's unrivalled illustrations of 

 Britain. The descriptions, historical and topographical, by Miss Emma Roberts, 

 a fair traveller in the cUmes which she so poetically depicts, are not only brilliantly 

 coloured, but enriched with many valuable and interesting particulars. Next to the 

 views in our own dear island, we should covet these vivid representations of localities 

 with which we can boast no familiarity. The artists employed on the drawings 

 were, Austin, Boys, Cattermole, Cox, Cotman, Fielding, Finch, Purser, Prout, 



