CHAPTER XXV. 
ARCHITECTURE AND THE FINE ARTS. 
OUR intention in this chapter, is not to notice the various productions of the 
fine arts which have appeared during the last twelvemonth, but only those publi- 
cations in which the principles of taste, and their application to general or parti- 
cular cases is discussed. When, however, any work of transcendent merit appears, 
even though it should not strictly come within the limits of our plan, if it is calcu- 
lated to be generally interesting, we shall, without scruple, take the opportunity of 
enriching our volume by its introduction. It is upon this principle that we have 
admitted into our present list Mr. Daniell’s Views and Antiquities of India, as 
being a series of drawings that combine together masterly execution, fidelity of re- 
presentation, novelty, and grandeur of form, in a higher degree than any work 
with which we are acquainted ; and which place before our eyes, with a precision 
wholly beyond the power of language, the noblest specimens of architecture that 
characterize the ancient Hindoo natives, the Mahometan conquerors, and the pre- 
sent European lords of the Indian peninsula. Mr. Elsam’s work on Rural Archi- 
tecture, and Mr. Repton’s on Landscape Gardening, are strictly within the limits 
of our plan, and therefore have a claim upon our notice which we cannot consist- 
ently overlook. S 
Art. I. Oriental Scenery, or Views in Hindoostan, published by Tuomas Danext, R.A. 
Howland-street, 3 parts, 24 Views in each. 
Antiquities of India, by Tuomas Danizry, R. A. 12 Views. 
Hindoo Excavations in the Mountains of Ellora, near Aurungabad, in the Decan, 24 Views, 
published by Tuomas Daniext, R. A. from the Drawings of Mr.W aces, large folio. 
WE congratulate the public on the 
acquisition of a work of various and un- 
rivalled merit: never before has oriental 
scenery been pictured with the vivacity, 
the accuracy, and beauty of nature. We 
The views in the four first parts were 
taken by Mr. Daniell, with singular in- 
dustry and perseverance, during a long _ 
residence in India: they contain the 
scenery of the country, British and Ma- 
are transported to another world, every 
thing denotes other skies, other manners; 
the palanquins, the elephants, and crowd- 
ed retinue of Indian luxury, the naked 
native squatting in a veranda, or saun- 
tering on a terrace, in prostrate adoration 
before his idol, or laving in the sacred 
Ganges ;—the tufted palms, the banyan 
fig, parent of forests, and the impene- 
trable jungle creeping up the hills, and- 
clothing the swampy margin of the ri- 
vers. Mee we gaze on the gay and 
gilded magnificence of oriental palaces, 
or muse over the gigantic architecture 
ef forgotten ages. 
hometan buildings, Indian pagodas, and 
the excavations of Elephanta and Sal- 
sette; the views of the excavations of 
Ellora, which form the fifth part, were 
executed from the drawings of Mr. 
Wales, who was prevented by death 
from finishing them himself. The whole 
are engraved in aquatinta, and coloured 
to the effect of draw:ngs. The acknow- 
ledged skill of the painter is eminent in 
all the plates, and particularly because it 
is not obtrusive ; tou good an artist to 
seek for picturesque effects in the com- 
mon arts of false lights, extravagant con- 
trasts, and unnatural colours, Mr. Da- 
