DIORAMA OF JERUSALEM AND THE HOLY LAND.
This diorama, the third connected with Jerusalem opened within two or three months, has been painted under the direction of Mr. W. Beverly from sketches taken on his travels by Mr. Bartlett, and is now exhibiting at the "St. George's Gallery," better known as the late Chinese Exhibi- tion. In interest and attraction few similar entertainments can compete with it ; while it yields to scarcely any in success and completeness of de- lineation. The route, commencing at the Red Sea, passes through the Desert to Petra, the Dead Sea, and Bethlehem. Thence we come, among other traditional scenes, on Tyre, Lebanon, Damascus, Nazareth ; and the diorama concludes with the interior of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, after various internal and external views of the city. The organ-music which accompanies the exhibition is produced with peculiar judgment, appropriately falling in with and seconding the impressions of the eye. Its effect is heightened occasionally by the voices of an unseen chorus, which aid powerfully in maintaining the sense of solemnity.
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