Pine Arts Quarterly Review. October, 1863. No. II. (Chapman and
Hall.)—We never take up this review without feeling that the paper and type are, after all, too splendid and costly, for the pub- lication of what are, after all, ephemeral essays. Criticisms on the art exhibitions of Paris and London, and catalogues of the works of Nicholas Poussin at Windsor Castle, and of C. Visscher, and the like, seem like flies in amber in so beautiful a volume. This number con- tains a paper eulogistic of the Report of the Commission on the Royal Academy, and a notice of a picture by Henrietta Browne, contributed by Mr. Tom Taylor and Professor Kingsley, respectively ; while Mr. Pal- grave sends an essay on the "Pretty and Beautiful," which gives many agreeable examples of both qualities, drawn from sculpture, painting, and poetry, but does really nothing in the way of philosophical discrimination between them. Mr. Panizzi, the librarian of the British Museum, sends a translation of a most curious paper, originally written in Italian, in which be identifies the Francesco de Bologna, who cut the types which have made Aldus famous, with the great painter and goldsmith Francis. If we may judge by a comparison of the present age with the past, art has not gained much by the division of labour.
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