23 APRIL 1859, Page 21

Each number of the "Gazette des Beaux Arts" calls for

kinder words and fuller thanks than its predecessor. Here in this last 8th livraison is a descriptive and illustrated life, by M. Charles Blanc, of Rembrandt, with a portrait and etchings alone worth the price of the whole number. The opening paper on the Acropolis of Athens " with engravings of frag- ments of the sculpture, and two admirable views East and West of the Temple itself, is in like excellent taste.