HARDING'S DRAWING - BOOK.
HARDING is indefatigable in following up his successful career Asa lithographer. His large book of Sketches and his pretty little Port. folio Intke not prevented him from bringing out his annual Drawing. Book, as usual. The volume for the present year is of a larger sire than the former, though still composed of six numbers of four plates each. The sketches are more carefully finished, and the impressions are taken on India paper: it makes a nice book of pictures, as well as a set of examples for more advanced pupils. The subjects are various,— old buildings, cottages, homesteads, shipping and craft, carts and wag. gons ; in short, any picturesque group of objects that caught the artist's eye in nature is delineated con arnore, in the forcible and offhand style and with those striking and brilliant effects that are the charm of HARDING's lithographs. These are not heightened with tints, but are repetitious of simple sketches with the black-lead pencil on white paper. A book of plain and easy outlines, for very young beginners, is stills desideratum in the series of lithographic drawing-books. They should be on a large scale, amid consist of the simplest forams and combinations, delineated with the fewest possible strokes, and without those little free touches—the play of the pencil—which puzzle children. Bald is these examples would of necessity be, they should nevertheless be done with the understundieg and taste of an miecomplished artist. They would be time first lines of the art, teaching the child the use of the pencil and the exercise of the eye and hand--the "pot-hooks and hangers" of drawing, in short.
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