THE ANNUALS.
TilE Landscape Album, a volume tastefully got up in the style of the Landscape Annuals, consists of a selection of sixty of the most inter- esting views from WESTALL'S Great Britain Illustrated,—one of the best of the series of illustrations of the scenery of our own country, published in shilling numbers: in fact, it is an abridged edition of that popular work, the plates and descriptions being identical. We have often thought that an English Landscape Annual would be acceptable, notwithstanding the great number of cheap publications of views of this country ; but then, we would have a set of engravings of more finished excellence than the present, to make up for the inferiority of which,however, this volume contains double the number of plates, and is published at a lower price than the Landscape Annuals. We would advise a British Annual, each successive volume of which should include the most striking views of one county, or of some picturesque spot, as the Isle of Wight, or the Lakes, and form a complete tour of itself. The views as well as the engravings should be as true and beautiful as art could make them. These by Mr. WEsTALL are, as we before remarked when we noticed the original work, neat, pretty, and accurate, though somewhat tame, feeble, and monotonous in style. This volume, however, will be an acceptable Christmas present to any one not already in possession of the original work. By the way, the circumstance of its being a selection from a larger work which has been extensively circulated, ought to have been stated in the title. As it is, it might be taken for an entirely new work, by any one who had not seen both it and the original ; and as many persons resident in the country order books from advertisements, and as publications of this kind are generally bought for presents, many parties may unwittingly receive as a gift or purchase a book whose contents they already possess in another shape.
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