The Photographic Art Journal. No. 1, March. (Sampson Low and
Co.)—The progress of photography illustrates very well the double sense of the word "Art." The advance in mechanical art made yearly is wonderfully great, so great that none but adepts can appreciate it, though we can all get some idea of it from the results, daily growing more and more marvellous, that we see it producing. And the advance in what we may call " artistic " art is equally surprising. The Photo- graphic Art Journal is meant, we may say, to be a representation of each kind of progress, to furnish a record of invention, deo., and to sup- ply really good examples of the best processes. The gain of one great step is implied in the description of the photographs in this number, that they are "printed in permanent pigments." The illustrations are three in number, and are all, as was to be expected, very good. They are so different in style and subject that we can scarcely compare them, and will, therefore, only say that we prefer the "Albert Diirer," taken from that artist's engraving of the Nativity. Another is from an original picture by M. Jacque, "The Return of the Flock." The third is a landscape, "A View near La Grande Chartreuse," very pretty, but with some of the background not quite as good as we have seen.
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