The two specimen plates put forth of JOHN LEWIS'S new
volume of Sketches of Constantinople, are very attractive, and convey a favourable impression of the novelty and interest of the subjects and their pictu- resque style of treatment. One is an out-door view of the fountain at the Seraglio-gate, with groups of Turks basking in the sun : it is a richly-ornamented Mooresque structure, with a heavy projecting roof studded with cupolas surmounted with the crescent. The other is an interior of the reception-room of a Pacha, who is indolently lolling on the divan with the perpetual pipe, and, judging from the coffee-tray and slippers on the floor, in conference with some visiter. The low- roofed, crazy apartment, and the two attendants in the ante-room, pre- sent a strange medley of state and neglect, luxury and squalidness. The work is executed in the tinted style of lithography, corresponding with the artist's former works; but the drawings are in this instance made by Mr. LEWIS, from sketches by a friend of his, a Mr. SMYTH.
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