The Third Part of the Illustrations of Byron is a
great improvement, upon the second. HOWARD'S design from Manfred, who is represented in converse with the " Witch of the Alps," is graceful, but it wants the spirit of poetry. Manfred is a commonplace person looking at a water fall, and the Witch a pretty mortal nymph enacting the part of a spirit The designs by CORBOULD and E. C. WOOD are pretty pictorial com- monplaces; but one by RICHTER, of a boy and girl, illustrative of the verses in the Hours of Idleness, where BYRON alludes to his early love, is, for its graceful simplicity, worthy of STOTHARD. It is really a de- lightful little pastoral of youth, poetical, natural, and unaffected. We are glad to have this opportunity of praising a design by RICHTER, and we wish he would give us more such ; we are sure he ought, since he proves that he is so able. We can hardly believe that the fancy which conceived, and the hand that designed it, are the same that perpetrated the glaring piece of extravagance from appo. Mr. RICHTER'S forte is in the delineation of juvenile nature, and comic scenes; though he is apt to be literal and coarse in his humour.
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