LITHOGRAPHY.
RIR. LINTON'S SKETCHES.—The Second Number of this work has just appeared, and is greatly improved in the lithography, though the style of the sketches themselves is, of course, the same. Mr. La:. TON appears to have taken pains to render his drawings accurate, having made them in pencil on the spot : this is a recommendation svhich will atone for the rough and hasty pencilling, with those who prefer literal transcripts of the wild and lovely scenes delineated, to the poetical additions of the artist's skill. But we have already "expressed our opinion on this point.
The "Views about Kurrah—Manickpore," by Lieutenant GEORGE Asnarr, lithographed by Messrs. NICHOLSON and aux; are cleverly, though feebly drawn; but the scenery, foliage, grassy foregrounds, and misty effects, seem more characteristic of English than Indian scenery; and but for the mosques, tombs, &c. introduced, we should certainly not know them for Views in India : they have no effects either of brilliancy, or that glare of light which should mark the climate of the East.
The First Number of " Aomo's School of Ornamental Drawing, in Progressive Lessons," promises to be a useful work to mechanics em- ployed in decorative work. Mr. FAIRLAND has cleverly lithographed" A Puppy annoyed by a Wasp," from a drawing by SCEPREN TAYLOR, which has the merit of good character ; and he has also put forth another of Mr. FAttaina's boy-pictures, called "A Bite,"—two children bobbing for minnows.
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