BURFORD' B PANORAMA.
Sierra Leone is the Whitsuntide -view at this favourite exhibition-room. The picture is painted with the usual skill of Mr. Burford and his assistants • but it wasscarcelya judicious choice, or at any rate its interest will not extend very far beyond those who know -either the place itself, or some who live or have lived there. Blue sea, hot sky, and Tropical country, not particularly remarkable, -are all that strike the ordinary eye ; which may indeed discover on inspection " Wesleyan Missionary House and Chapel," "Upper Commissariat," "Market and Slaughter-house," and the like, but nothing very fascinating. For a panorama, interest of association, multiplied and combined on a large scale, is the great thing; mere picturesqueness, or beauty of individual features, can be as well or better exhibited in a smaller picture.
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