scapes, and the vigour and grace of Macuse's portraits of
wild Irish girls. The lambent eyes and dark tresses of the Milesian beauties bespeak the Spanish blood that mingles in their veins ; though their arch looks have more of animation than belongs to the voluptuous people of the Peninsula. The " Lady at Prayers," with a furtive glance of her flashing eye in a direction away from the Madonna she kneels before, may perhaps be as characteristic of an Irish as a Spanish devotee ; " The Irish Jig" has as much character as the Spanish Bolero, though of a different sort. There is a hardness in the style of these figures, which Maesiss would do well to mitigate. Ceeswrcx has acquired greater force of pencil; and his effects of sunset and storm have the impressive beauty of nature: the atmosphere is moist, warm, and bright, and the light clouds float in ether.
The Oriental brings before us the splendours of' Indian architecture, in its mausolea and temples with their domes and lattices ; the ghatats, Or landing-places, "on Ganges and Hidaspes, Indian streams ;" the stupendous bill forts ; the dusky beauties, and the stern, jewelled princes—the gigantic vegetation and huge animals of the East. Curious as the scenes and objects are, their remoteness, or the absence of his- torical associations, renders them individually less interesting; while the general features of Indian scenery have been so frequently de- picted, that we seem familiar with the strangeness. Poor WILLIAM DANIELL'S style, too, was rarely varied or striking in his best day : the life of the scene was lost in the tame exactitude of the delineation. These views, however, as the last that came from his pencil, have a charm for us, spite of tbeir monotony. DANIELL was a faithful and painstaking draughtsman; and his forms may be depended upon for correctness, though the grandeur and variety of effect are wanting.
The second annual volume of FISHER'S Syria and the Holy Land, the views by BARTLETT and the descriptions by JOHN CARNE, leads us through a succession of scenes of a character so wild and romantic, that the beauty of the landscape and the splendour of the atmospheric effects
only serve to heighten the singularity of their aspect. Here, too, Scriptural associations give interest to almost every view ; and as the artist has sketched them on the spot, we have no reason to question their fidelity, though we may wish the style were a higher order of art.
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