Retrofped of Domefiic Literature—Fine Arts. 
the double hatchet, the fymbol of Jupiter 
and Labranda; and of two allegorical 
fubjests. 
Mr. DALLaway, the Conftantinopoli- 
tan traveller, has publifhed an amufing 
volume of «* Anecdotes of the Arts in 
England ; or, Comparative Remarks on 
Pucchirethne: Sculpture, and Painting, 
chiefly illuftrated by Specimens at Ox. 
ford.” Mr. Dallaway affures us, that 
every expectation he has formed of the 
pu lic acceptance of - his work, would be 
completely gratified could it recommend to 
the younger ftudents of the univerfity the 
Jove and purfuit of the arts, by pointing 
out the opportunities which they enjoy : 
—his is fo modeft and fo laudable a motive, 
that we fincerely hope the author’s gratifi- 
cation will be complete: we underftand, 
however, that his work is confidered by 
connoidicurs as teeming with errors fg 
ro{s, and as containing, wi ith fome know- 
flase and taite,evidences of {uch inexcufable 
tgnorance of his fubject, as to render it a 
book by no means fit for the general and 
unlearned reader, whom it is ‘perpetually 
liable to miflead. 
Georce Henry Mason, Efq. has 
illuttrated the ** Coftume of China” by 
fixty engravings, with explanations in 
French and Englith. 
very fplendid volume does not appear to 
have been in China more than a few 
months: he enjoyed, notwithftanting, 
thofe opportunities of obferyation which 
enabled him>to obtain no inconfiderable 
knowledge of the Chinefe cuftoms; and, 
although: it is obvious that his refidence 
in the country was .not fuficiently pro- 
longed to give him a very intimate ac- 
quaintance with the manners of that jea- 
lous peopie, ftill he was there long enough 
to procure drawings to be made, from 
Chinefe artiits, of the different habits and 
_ occupations of their countrymen. There 
is little doubt but that the drawings are 
correct: the engravings taken from them 
are well executed, and beautifully colour- 
ed, and to each is fubjoined an explana- 
tion, which adds much to its value. The 
price of this volume, in every refpect ex. 
tremely elegant, i is fix guineas. 
“ As a’companion to the above work, 
has appeared, in one quarto volume, price 
three guineas and ‘a half, dn illuftration of 
the <¢ Punifhments of China,’’ by twenty - 
two engravings, | with ‘explanations in 
Englifh and French. . Without the fanc- 
tion of a fiame, this work will be receiv- 
ed with caution, as the public has'no af- 
furance that thé delineations. are at all ac- 
curate, or taken fro 
; 
The author of this . 
real life, however 
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well they are executed’s and itis but juf 
tice to fay, that they are not inferior, €i- 
ther in colouring or engraving, to the 
plates in Major Mafon’s publication. The 
Blarme fcenes of varied wretchednefs 
and torture, are thofe with which the ano- 
nymous editor of this volume has thought 
he fhould gratify the Englith public— 
What a compliment to its feelings and its 
taite ! 
1. Aculprit before a magiftrate. 
2. A culprit conveyed to prifons 
3. Aculprit ¢onduéted to trial. 
4. An offender undergoing the bafti. 
nado. 
5. Twifting a man’s ears. 
6. Punifhment of the {wing , 
7. Punifhing a boatman. 
8. Punifhing an interpreter. 
g- The rack. 
10. Torturing the fingers. 
iz- Burning a man’s eyes with lime. 
12. A malefactor chained to an irone 
bar. 
13. Punifhment of the wocden collar, 
14. A man faftened to a block of 
wood. 
15. A malefa&or ina cage. 
16. Punifhment of a wooden tube. 
17- Hamitringing of a malefattor. 
18. Clofe confinement. : 
19. Conduéting an offender into banifh- 
ment. 
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tion, she 
21. The capital punifhment of the 
chord (or ftrangling). 
22. Ihe manner of beheading, 
One is difpofed to wonder upon what 
principle i it could be, that fuch reprefenta- 
tions as the above, of mufcles and limbs . 
writhing with convulfive agonies, could be 
offered to the public infpeétion: the edi- 
tor, however, has refolved the difficulty, 
by obferving—and there is, at leaft, a 
femblance of juftnels in the obfervation— 
that, exclufively of their novelty and in- 
formation, reprefentations of this nature 
are recommended, from the fenfation of 
fecurity which they produce ‘* in thofe bo- 
foms that heave upon a tract of the globe 
where they are protected from being torn 
by lengthened agonies : where a perfon’s 
innocence is not eltimated by his mental 
or cor poreal powers of enduring” pain, 
&c. &c.”” ‘It muft not be paffed over, 
that the editor, in his preface, hints at 
other punilhments, in addition to thofe 
reprefented in this publication, of a mnch 
feverer nature, which have been inflitted 
by the Chinefe upon criminals convicted 
of regicide, parricide, rebellion, treafon, 
or 
A malefagtor condusted to execu - 
