The second garland of Flowers of Loveliness is twined by
several bands, for the most part feminine; indeed Messrs. 1TwiNs and Jotllal Wool) are the only two cavaliers of the pallette permitted to share In the selection of the Flowers. How their brethren must envy them ! The two Misses CORBAUX, Mrs. SEYFFARTH, and her sister Miss E. SHARPE, are the ladies concerned ; the matron's hand hav- ing culled the larger number. We have not only flowers, but moss also; and " moss "dis the type of as pretty a group as any,-a young mother with her two infant children, one sleeping on her lap dreaming of the treasure (a bird's-nest) he holds in his hand, the other caressing her cheek. Mr. UWINS'S two groups, " Rose Acacia" and " Con- volvolus," display most power of art ; but beyond this we confess we are puzzled which flower of loveliness to prefer. Miss CoasAux's " Myrtle" is very charming; her sister FANNY'S " Ivy" is graceful ; the " Yellow Rose" of Miss E. SIIARPE has attractions not to be passed by; and the " Wild Geranium" of Mrs. SEYFFARYII is be- witching: and so we might go on exhausting the stock of laudatory adjectives, without giving the reader any idea of the beauties of feature
and expression, the tasteful display of costume, and the fanciful group- ing of the figures.
FISHER'S Drawing-Room Scrap-Book, with its superb scarlet cover and its miscellaneous collection of embellishments, fully answers to its title. To enumerate the subjects of thirty-six plates is beyond our space ; and as few if any of them are entirely new, it would be superfluous. The gleanings from Messrs. FisitEn's various publica- tions consist of portraits of personages of ancient and modern times,-including among the latter, the Princess Victoria, Lords Melbourne and Wellington, and Sir Robert Peel ; views in different countries, and a few designs. Among those that are new to us, are " Prince John," " Isaac and Rebecca at the Tournament at Ashby," by HART; a scene in the Cemetery of Smolensk°, by VICKERS; a characteristic view of the Cafés in Damascus, erected on the banks of a waterfall for the refreshment of the moist, cool air ; a beautiful sun-lit sea view from Carthage, by J. SALMON, an artist of talent whose name is new to us ; another of Malta, by equally clever; and a third of Gibraltar, by BENTLEY-bright and glowing; the " Battle of Bothwell Bridge," a stirring scene of strife, by W. HARVEY; two or three foreign views by PROD; and several English scenes by ALLOM.
The embellishments of the Juvenile Scrap-Book of the same pub- lisher, consist of an assortment of plates that are all familiar to us, they having appeared in various Annual and other periodicals ; but they will be new, and doubtless welcome, to the young reader, in con- junction with the stories and the elegant cover.
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