ist. tist-be he either draftsman or engraver, manner, with the quiet and repose of the same parts of the structure with is conversant with all the varied forms the distant background.-A plate, by greater pictorial character. We, thereand details of gothic architecture, he W. R. Smith, exhibiting another view fore, look at this plate rather as we will be unable to render them with of the elegant monumental chantry of would at a section or elevation than as truth and accuracy. Unless he has Henry the Fifth, from the contrary side one intended for picturesque effect. 'An studied all its mouldings and other de- to that shown in Le Keux's print of Ancient Arch in the East Cloister,' entails minutely, he will not be able to Henry the Third's monument,-is an- graved by Sands, is an excellent subimpart to them their real character, other truly charming production of the [ject, whether we consider the elegance when beheld in the gross. The limited graver, and one that must place the of the design of the original, with its dimensions of his subject, may proba- artist in the foremost rank of the en-rich pattern of gracefully undulating bly hinder him from introducing every gravers of the present day. This sub- foliage, or the delicacy and feeling with -minute line of the object, but it is ne-ject is treated in the most masterly which it has been rendered by the artcessary, that he should be well ac- and tasteful manner. The details are quainted with each. Even in the pre- clearly made out, but kept subservient Many of the sections and plates of sent work, we perceive a manifest im- to the larger masses of light and shade. details are also executed in an exquisite provement in this respect. Instead of We would request those who are of opi-style, and display all the elegance of deteriorating, as but too frequently nion, that the rich and multiplied mi- which such subjects are susceptible. happens in publications appearing in nutiae of Gothic architecture are pro- Among these the longitudinal section of detached portions, the History of West-ductive of confusion and destroy all Henry the Seventh's chapel, engraved minster Abbey' has continued progres- simplicity and grandeur, attentively to by Roffe, another of the West-end of sively to advance in excellence; for, examine and study these four fine the same, by Cleghorn, and the monufar from abating in their exertions at plates; and then say, whether the most ment of Henry and his Queen, rendered the close of their labours, the artists intricate, varied, and elaborate details with all that accuracy and precision of have evidently become more and more may not, in the hands of genius and outline for which Moses is so distin attached to their subject. taste, be rendered subservient to that guished, are particularly beautiful. It is not to be supposed that, within genuine simplicity which consists in The brass gates, shewn in the second of the limits to which we are restricted, UNITY OF SENTIMENT AND EXPRES- these plates, are wonderfully executed s we can particularize each plate; all that SION. This is the only real and legitimate they ought, indeed, to be inspected we can do is, to point out those most simplicity of art; and this simplicity is through a magnifier of considerable conspicuous for their merits. So judi- as frequently to be felt in a fine Gothic power, if we would form a just idea of ciously has the artist selected his sub- edifice as in a Grecian statue. It is the artist's skill. jects, that hardly a single feature of im- this unity of sentiment, combined with The length to which we have already portance, throughout this vast and mag- intensity of feeling, which is the very extended our remarks, warns us that it nificent fabric, remains unillustrated by soul of art, whatever be the outward is time to conclude this article. In what his pencil; and when we consider that, form in which it may be arrayed. we have said on this work we have with the exception of a few admeasure- The view in the choir, with the cere-spoken from our sincere conviction of ments, all the drawings were entirely mony of installing the dean, and that its merits; although we are aware that made by Mr. Neale, we may justly say, from Poet's Corner, looking across the our language may seem hyperbolical that no artist has displayed more abi- choir, both engraved by Henry Le Keux, and extravagant-but that fault must be lity, industry, or enthusiasm, upon a are two fine and interesting subjects, par- charged on the book. To the author we single edifice. The view in the North ticularly the latter, although certainly should almost say, applying to him the Aisle, showing Henry the Third's monu- not quite equal to those we have just words addressed to one considered by his ment, and that of the Interior of Ed-mentioned. Great interest is, doubtless, countrymen to have attained the highest ward the Confessor's Chapel, are most pinnacle of earthly success, Die Diaelaborate and delightful specimens of goras-you cannot climb to heaven.' the powers of John Le Keux. The miHowever sedulously, or with whatever nutest and richest details are all faithenthusiasm, Mr. Neale may henceforth fully made out; yet there is as masterly a apply himself to his art, we feel assured breadth of effect, and as much harmony that neither himself nor any other indiof tone, as though only the general vidual can hope to produce a more admasses had been defined. These exquimirable series of architectural drawings. site drawings are a sufficient refutation of It is, indeed, a work which an artist may that theory under which some artists atpresent to his sovereign with conscious tempt to shelter their own inability or inpride, and which a monarch may accept dolence, while they maintain that attenwith grateful admiration. tion to detail, is wholly incompatible with spirited execution, or picturesque effect. The engraving of Henry the Fifth's and Queen Philippa's monuments, by the same artist, is hardly inferior to the preceding, and, perhaps, still more brilliant. The catching lights, on the rich sculptures and ornaments of this gorgeous architectural composition, are admirably managed, and contrast, in the happiest attached to the plate exhibiting the en- Literature and Science. On a recent visit to Pompeii, by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, Lord Grey, and beautiful antiques were discovered, and Capt. 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