FINE ARTS.
CATALOGUE OF MR. BUTTON'S WORKS.
,r is somewhat unusual to notice a mere catalogue; but the beautiful , .00d-cuts with which this list is adorned, fairly call for a notice from ny paper that devotes its attention to the fine arts. There is a view f Peterborough Cathedral, which for taste and neatness may vie with ny wood-Cut we have yet seen. The Cathedral itself is delightfully • hrown to a distance, and the intervening landscape is fresh with all he complexion of a rustic scene. It is drawn by BARTLET, and ,xecuted by WILLIAMS. There is another, cut by the same artist, rom a drawing by HARVEY, which is eXtremely clever,—we allude to bat which displays the interior of a Greek Tomb : the particulars are telineated with great exactness; and this cut, together with one pre- cnting some ancient vases, may be cited as specimens of the power if the artist in wood to be both minute and clear at the same time. the Chapterhouse at Salisbury is boldly drawn by CATTERMOLE, Old the spirited manner in which he has suffered the boundaries of his lrawing to cut in twain some of the most important features of the iathedral, tell with great effect: the cutting of this drawing, by triOMPSON, has been performed with great clearness and chastity.
HOOD'S COMIC ANNUAL.
HIS volume, which appears to be a continuation of the punster's Whims and Oddities, is scarcely distinguishable from the previous vo- Lumes of that work : the same drollery is paramount throughout, but still accompanied by the same straining, the same topsyturviness, the same distortion of all that was, is, or ever will be. Among the most ingenious illustrations of the present volume, are the following: —" A Double Knock,"—where an unfortunate devil, prompted by his evil genius to do a bit of pugilism, finds himself as tightly wedged be- tween the fist of his foe and an awkward street post, as if he had been subjected to the final screw of a blacksmith's vice. "Rocket time, at Vauxhall,"—where no small portion of comicality is displayed in the foreshortening of a score of faces, all sky-gazing to watch the decline a.nd fall of that article for which Vauxhall is as famous as it once was for its arrack punch. "Gentle and Simple,"—where a brilliant youth, the unfortunate No. 5. of a fifth-rate charity school, standeth all forlorn on the banks of something that may be a puddle, dipping for duckweed.
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