MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.
The Seventh Part of the Landscape Illustrations of Byron is not so rich in pictorial beauty as some of the former; though it contains the two imaginative vignettes, by TURNER, of the Plain of Troy and the Gate of Theseus, which we noticed in the Seventh Volume. The Tenth also has another, by TURNER, a charming view of Corinth from its Acropolis ; and one by STANFIELD, of Athens and the Island of Egina. STANFIELD'S view of the remains of the Temple of Jupiter Olympus, with Athens in the distance, is the best and most interesting in the Number : the elegant proportions of the few remaining pillars, rising up from the plain in stately grandeur, proclaim the mind of genius and the band of taste almost as much as the immortal sculptures of the Parthenon. There are likewise a beautiful view of Patras, by CAT- TERMOLE, which, as well as the Temple of Jupiter, is from a sketch by PAGE; the Cape of Colonna, a pleasing scene, by PURSER; and a neat view of the City of Cagliari in Sardinia, by IV. WESTALL. The portrait of Margarita Cogni is from a clever, but somewhat affected sketch, by HanLowE, made at the request of Lord Byron.
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