MR. S. C. HALL'S ROYAL GALLERY OF ART.
We spoke of the general scheme of this collection of engravings from pictures belonging to the Queen and Prince Albert, on the appearance of the first monthly part. The second contains Maclise's " Undine,"—a picture overloaded with the machinery of fancy, but displaying little of its quintessence ; Hogarth's "Garrick and his Wife," —exhibited last year at the British Institution ; and Roberts's " Bridge of Toledo,"— a small and early work, marked by a more Turner-like treatment than is now usual with Mr. Roberts. The second is the mst interesting of the three, and has been very well rendered by the engraver, Mr. Bourne.
While speaking of the Royal Gallery of Art, we may remark that two of the prints in the first issue are republished in the new number of the Art Journal; a proceeding which appears to us scarcely to accord in spirit with the promise of exclusive advantages to subscribers, and which may be of doubtful policy even as regards the Art Journal itself.
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