Numbers XIV. and XV. of The English School of Painting
and Sculpture, present us with outlines of two pictures by HOGARTH,
Gjuus-
3oitouoii's Cottage-door, REYNOLDS'S Holy Family, HOPPNER'S Sleeping Nymph, ROMNEY'S Infant Shakspeare, Commss's Fisherman's Depar- ture, STANFIELD'S Wreckers, BIRD'S Chevy Chase,- Ste., all engraved by NORMAND junior, whose plates have been the neatest in execution, and most faithful to the original, of any in this work. They are for the most part correct, and give a good idea of the composition and general cha racter of the originals. A complete series of BARRY'S pictures at the
Society of Arts in the Adelphi is promised in the work. •
Views in Kensington Gardens, by Mr. SARGEANT, are very well got up, and neatly engraved by H. WALLIS; but we cannot say much in praise
of their execution. The beauty of the trees, for which these delightful gardens are distinguished, is very inadequately represented ; the draw- ing of the foliage is tame in the foregrounds, and monotonous and man. nered in the distances. The figures introduced are very bad ; and the objects, such as the palace, not only feebly but insufficiently made out. There are two or three pretty views among the number, in which the
beauty of the scene redeems the poorness of the art which delineates them ; but we hope this delicious spot of ground will yet find an artist more competent to do justice to its "green retreats."
The Horse's Last Home! — A vivid, or rather livid picture of this "bournefrom which no quadruped returns," by GEORGE CRUIESHANK is prefixed to the last Number of the "Voice of Humanity,"—raised in
behalf of the brute creation. It represents a " knacker's yard," in which are congregated horses in the various modes of the last stage of existence. One of the knackers is leaning against the door of the slaughter-house, while another of the fraternity is lashing a poor ana- tomy of a horse attached to a cart, which contains a dead carcass.
Death, it seems, is a mercy which is not vouchsafed to the poor beasts that are collected in this loathsome place of abomination, except on " killing-days ;" and the wretched animals sometimes die of starvation as well as of disease. The pigs and poultry introduced into this recep- tacle of filth, will turn our stomachs at what is facetiously termed "dairy-fed pork ;" and we shall mistrust all geese that come to us
through the " London poulterer." The "Society for Promoting Ra- tional Humanity" will find Mr. CRUIESIIANK'S inimitable talent more efficacious than a thousand homilies—putrescence and brutality are em- bodied in the plate ! Medical Zoology and Mineralogy.—A periodical work, under this title, by Dr. STEVENSON, in continuation of his work on " Medical Botany,"
is in course of publication, and will be completed in twelve monthly parts, each containing several coloured engravings of the animals de- scribed. The last part contains five plates of serpents, &c.—generally two
in each ; the execution of which is sufficiently good for the purpose, and, being coloured from nature, render the identification of the objects easy The utility of such a work is obvious ; and the price is extremely. moderate.
Waverley Novels, Vol. XXV. of the new series, being the second vo- lume of the Pirate, is embellished with a very clever design by Mr. STANFIELD, the marine painter, representing the scene between the rival captains on board the pirate-vessel. It has good characters, though the expression and air of Cleveland, the gentleman pirate, seem rather to denote him a prisoner brought before a tribunal of buccaneers of which Golfe was judge, than the captain of the vessel, of which buccaneers, was only boatswain.
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