Views in Central Abyssinia. (Rotten.)—These are sketches of scenery, together
with some figure drawings of Abyssinians and Gallas, originally executed in pen and ink, and now reproduced by photo-lithography. They wore taken, we are told, by a German traveller, one T. E. "believed at present to be one of the captives" (we do not observe any name corresponding to the initials), and wore afterwards presented to the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem by one of his Abyssinian missionaries. This sounds somewhat strange, but the sketches have every appearance of being genuine. They are interesting, and though they do not appear to us to possess any very high artistic value, display very clearly the gene- ral configuration of the country. This has all tho striking features of a volcanic origin, reminding us, to use an illustration very inadequate but generally known, of the form of the Skye mountains. The volume ends like a romance with the portrait of a Gotta young lady, "who," says the artist, "is now my wife." This was in 1554; we should like to know how the marriage has turned out. The letter-press might have been of better quality.
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