13 NOVEMBER 1830, Page 19

FINE ARTS.

Elliot's Views in India. Parts II. and HI.

This work does not improve as if proceeds. The beautiful drawings of PURSER and Boys, and the rich, broad, and brilliant effects of PROUT, have not ample justice done them in the engravings, which possess more force than delicacy. We are accustomed to such a high degree of finish in works of any pretension, that we are disappointed when a publication so interesting and of so much merit as the present falls short in the executive department. The mosques, tombs, and pa- laces of India, its splendid skies and picturesque foliage, in the hands of the artists engaged on the drawings, deserve the best labours of the most skilful engravers. The Tomb of Shere Shah, by PnouT, hi Part II. is muddled in the engraving, though the effect is well preserved ; and the plates generally seem to be got up as it speculation rather than as fine specimens of art. We regret to see a work of such splendid promise spoiled in the execution, for the sake of a few pounds : it is not a com- mendable economy—though the low price of the work may prevent the proprietors from affording betaer engravings.