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flower-crowned lawns that would grace the 
front of an Italian villa; and, in another 
direction, you see a herd of half-naked 
negroes, practising their uncouth and _ bar- 
-barous dances and distortions. In fact, this 
scene is extremely well chosen, no less on 
account of the adventitious interest that is 
attached to it as the most flourishing and 
delightful of our youthful colonies, than by 
reason of theintrinsic beauties and attractions 
of the scenery itself, and the artificial con- 
trasts which the nature of its present circum- 
stances offer to the artist’s pencil. The only 
fault of the scene for a purpose of this kind, 
we take to be the altogether poor, and 
unpicturesque character of the. buildings— 
with one exception only—that of the Gover- 
nor’s stables. And the only error we would 
hint at in the execution of the painting is, 
the brilliant Arcadian-looking—or rather let 
us say, English-looking green of the ground, 
the foliage, &c. The climate of Sydney is 
too delightful to admit of this redeeming 
effect of an uncertain one like our own. The 
grass in New South Wales never looks as it 
does in this picture, at the period of the year 
when the trees look as they do: one or the 
other must be incorrectly given. In all 
other respects the painting is executed with 
great skill and taste, and with a real feeling 
for the beauties which are here depicted. 
The figures are also given with great spirit 
and effect. As an instance of this, we ma 
notice the group of the Governor and his 
friend on horseback, saluted as they pass by 
a group of the natives on foot. 
The other new Panorama which has been 
pened during the last month is at the lower 
circle, in the Strand ; and it represents Paris, 
as seen from the centre of the Place de Louis 
Quinze. The chief objects and points in- 
cluded by this view will at once occur to the 
reader; and when it is recollected that, 
among them, are the Palais Bourbon—the 
Pont de Louis Seize and the superb view 
beyond it—the Garde Meuble and the 
Admiralty—the Gardens of the Tuilleries— 
the Champs Elysées—and the whole line of 
the Seine in this direction—it will readily 
be supposed that a proper extent and gran- 
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deur of effect cannot possibly have been 
produced in a circle, the extremities of 
which you can nearly touch with your hand. 
This smallness of scale, is, in fact, the crying 
defect of the picture, and one which nothing 
else can compensate for ; because the dis- 
tinguishing character of the view chosen to 
be depicted, results from its vast extent. 
The feelings excited in the spectator when 
standing on the actual spot, spring from the 
consciousness of being placed in the midst 
of a vast city, yet with scope about him for 
the eye and the mind to expatiate freely in 
any direction, as if he were ona vast open 
plain. The view is a noble one, chiefly on 
this account: for the public edifices which 
it takes in are not of such surpassing beauty 
or grandeur, as to produce such an effect if 
they were huddled together into half the 
compass they now occupy. That this is 
true, may be seen by the picture before us. 
Every individual object in the actual view is 
of course introduced; and they are all 
depicted with infinite skill. But the effect 
of the whole is any thing but that produced 
by the real view. And it must not be said 
by the artist (or for him) that this is the 
necessary defect of his art—or of this parti- 
cular department of it: for the truth is, that 
in the space which some of our Panoramas 
have occupied, the fault here complained of 
need not have existed. If painted on a 
reasonable scale, and no better painted than 
it is here, an adequate notion of the scene 
inight have been conveyed to those who had 
not witnessed it, and an agreeable recollec- 
tion of it furnished to those who had. But 
we cannot say, that either of these is achieved 
in the present case. Nevertheless, the pic- 
ture is beautifully painted, and some of the 
single effects are admirable—that, for in- 
stance, produced by the Chambres des 
Deputés—or the long receding line of the 
Champs Elysées—or the charming Watteeoo- 
like scene between the trees of the same. 
The long group of revellers who are bearing 
the eleemosynary wine to be distributed (the 
day being the fete of St. Louis) is also exe- 
cuted with great spirit and effect. 
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