POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
A NEW series of Dissolving Views of Turkey and Asia Minor has been added to the multifarious attractions of this amusing and instructive gallery of scientific marvels, for the especial delectation of the young holyday,, visiters. .A private view of them was given on Thursday, preparatory to their public exhibition on Monday. The evanescent pictures represent a variety of scenes on the Bosphorus and in Con- stantinople ; including the Golden Horn, the Mosque of St. Sophia, the Sweet Waters, and a procession of the Sultan ; the gorgeous costumes affording great scope for the display of splendour in the transparent colours of the paintings : but it is in strong effects, of light and dark that the vivid effect of this species of art is most conspicuous ; conse- quently the most striking of the set is a subterranean scene by torch- light, where a boat steered by a single figure is exploring the dark and flooded crypt of an ancient building, in whose labyrinthine recesses the rash adventurer found a grave. The magical changes, one view melting away and another suddenly appearing through the dim outlines of its predecessor, are not the least curious part of the show.
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