29 JANUARY 1859, Page 20

Brewer's Panorama of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, the Falls

of Niagara, the Natural Bridge of Virginia Prairie scenery, and the Birth- place of Washington, Mount Vernon, has attractions for lovers of the marvellous, the beautiful, and the vast, in nature ; though the painting is somewhat unequal to the aims of the artist. The Mammoth Cave, with its miles of labyrinthine passages, 600 feet below the surface of the earth, possessing throughout an equable healthy temperature-its halls, domes grottoes, and deep rivers, overhung with the brilliant and glitter- ing stalactite-has not a parallel in the whole world, and its portrait is undoubtedly a novelty to the dwellers in cities. There are the customary accompaniments of a descriptive lecture and appropriate music.