The panorama of Benares, newly added by Mr. Burford to
his unique series of illustrations of localities of distinction and celebrity, bears the usual evidence of the task, accuracy, and skill which distinguish all Mr. Burford's instructive works of art.
The two highly-finished water-colour drawings exhibited by Messrs. Jennings of Cheapside, depicting Ancient Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, and Modern Jerusalem from the Hill of Evil Council, excite at- tention from their character as works of art, and from the subject treated in them. Chromo-lithographs of them will be published, forming ac- curate and pleasing reminiscences of the originals ; that of the ancient city, with its impressive extent and variety of architecture under the lurid light of the setting sun, as it were in mournful forecasting of its destiny, is very grand, and is accepted as resulting from antiquarian researches whose authority is indisputable.
The same interest which the opening numbers attracted, attaches to the two bi-monthly issues for the present month of the Gazette des Beaux Arts. M. Paul Mantz contributes a clear survey of the "Exposition" of pictures for the present year, and in the third chapter adds the prints of M. Benouville's "Jeanne d'Are," " L'amour desarme," by Eugene Fro- meat, and "Psyche," by M. de Curzon, as charming reminiscences of three of the chef d'ceuvres of the salon. Notice should be especially paid to an admirably illustrated paper on the " Anciennes Faiences Fran- caises" ; and in the same number are two wood engravings, full of cha- racter, of frescoes at San Gemignano ; the critique qccompanying them contains much curious information, especially touching the frescoes of Be- nozzo. A paper, being "Notes to serve for a History of Paper- making," by M. Vallet de Viriville, belongs to the domain of Archmology, and its writer might largely increase his store of watermarks from speci- mens in our collections of public documents at the British Museum and Public Record Office.
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