The Fifth and Sixth Parts of LANE'S Dramatic Sketches are
pub- lished together, on account of' their containing portraits of the vocalists who performed in Roome's opera, " Amine." The heads of Henry Phillips and Miss P. Horton are very like, but the fall-length figures of Wilson and Miss Sherriff are only recognizable by the costumes : Messrs. Danvers, Leffler, and Stretton, have reason to be pleased with their flat- tering resemblances. Issaire has published his twelve Studies tf heads in a volume ; and together they form a pleasing set of sketches ea character : there is a freshness and simplicity about them bespeaking genuineness. The painter's style, though his touch is slight and mannered, is broad and distinct. The faces are not in every instance interesting, and the head- dresses are mostly fantastic ; but the expression is natural and charac- teristic, with a frank openness that is engaging. A girl with clasped hands and a sorrowful look, is one of tire sweetest pictures of grief that we have seen this matey a day. The painter's feeling and touch are most admirably preserved in the engravings by WAGSTAFF.
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