HARDING'S later studies have been more adapted for the advanced
pupil • he has now turned his attention to the young learner, for whose use he has sketched some more simple bits of scenery, forming an Early Drawing-Book suitable for beginners. The graceful and facile style for which HARDING is distinguished, is equally remarkable in these slight and comparatively easy subjects, where he seems to have reduced each object to the fewest elements necessary to its represen- tation with an effect of reality: the sun seems to be shining on all of them, and the faintest outline conveys the idea of substance. There are some delicious fragments scattered through this little volume : the crumbs that Hanutsso lets fall are better worth picking up than the cates which the mass of teachers set before their pupils. A still more elementary book, however, is yet a desideratum ; beginning with iso- lated objects defined by a few lines, clearly drawn, without shadow, and on a large scale : children are perplexed by a combination of forms, and cannot imitate the free touch of a master-band.
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