1825.] Intelligence respecting the Fine Arts, &c. 409 the Gaelic Vocabulary in English and Latin, compiled by the direction of the Highland Society of Scotland, is in the press, and will be speedily published at Edinburgh. Mrs. Hemans is about to publish a volume, entitled, "The Forest Sanctuary; with Lays of many Lands, and other Pieces." The principal poem, the Forest Sanctuary, is said to be the tale of a Spaniard, who takes refuge in the wilds of America from the religious persecutions of his own country, in the 16th century. A gentleman in this city is preparing for the press a translation of the recovered work of Cicero on civil government. Intelligence respecting the Fine Arts, Antiquities, &c. The first No. of a work entitled Engraved Specimens of the Architectural Antiquities of Normandy, has been published in England. It is said to contain drawings of many curious and interesting remains of Gothic architecture, which are now in a state of decay, and will be soon beyond the reach of the copyist. There have lately been discovered in the excavations carrying on at Pompeii, two paintings in Fresco, remarkable for he correctness of the design and the beauty of the colouring. They represent Briseis, carried off by Achilles, and the marriage of Thetis and Peleus. These two pictures, which yet remain in their places, are thought the most beautiful, among those which have come down from antiquity. M. Anton Rothmüller, principal of the gallery of paintings belonging to Prince Esterhazy at Vienna, has discovered a new process for the colouring of copperplates and lithographic engravings with oil, to which he has given the long name of Elaeocalcography. The effect of his invention is to give to the prints the appearance of having been carefully executed by a painter in oil colours. Nos. 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Bryant SEVERAL volumes of a publication, entitled Balantyne's Novelist's Library, have lately appeared at Edinburgh, and Sir Walter Scott has been employed to furnish a biography of each of the authors whose works are included in that collection, and a critical analysis of their writings. The book before us contains all that Sir Walter has written for the volumes which have already come out; and, although we cannot conceive why the reputed author of the Waverley novels should be, as some seem to suppose, the best possible compiler of the biographies of other novelists, any more than that a mathematical tailor should be the fittest man of his trade to make a coat for a professor of mathematics, yet we were prepared, from the first, to set no ordinary value on his criticisms. He who has written so much and so ably in the department of fictitious narrative, cannot but have reflected maturely upon its principles, and perused carefully the works of those who have distinguished themselves in this branch of literature. The first thing which strikes us on looking over these volumes, is the entire absence of any thing like effort, pretension, or ambitious ornament in the style. If the meaning is only expressed, the author's purpose is answered; he does not seem to trouble himself in the least about the manner in which it is done. He writes like a quiet, sober, sensible sort of man, too rational to suffer himself to get in raptures about any thing, and too little of a coxcomb to affect a fervour that he does not feel. His negligence of manner does not, however, by any means sit ungracefully upon him, and it almost seems, while we are reading these volumes, as if we were admitted into the intimate and unreserved society of their celebrated author, and heard him expatiating carelessly, and at his ease, on the subject of those writings, with whose merits and whose faults he was alike so VOL. I. 53 |