The Express.
London, England, 1858-05-03 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1858.

eider gki, seated at the ors window, is pang taarfally at
the same moon, vrbesapare says at mos quieten the wretched
Nothar'• yearning instinct, anti awaken in the bream of
the daughter the fond Mal diction of childhood. Other
seggestive points, such as the divided apple, on. half on the
earpet, and the other with the tartest its core, the sees
dead over the moon which itisatilka the hour in the dils
*Mr, and portraits of the War and mother ling up is
the briging, being all that is saved tom the wreck of botoo.
We meat not %ether pardealease. Rights pease we cannot
gin this noble welt than that the artistic treatment in fully
athiquak in earsestneas and power to the severity and yahoo
of the subject.

Mr. Egg has also a picture from Tbaclerey'e Bs-
mood, but inferior, we think, to the sae exhibited hot
peer. The incident chosen is that immediately below the
playful decoration of Esmond after the beide of Wynendeeh
wha, the scarfs. represented in the former work. He is kneeing,
and Beatrice is in the act of dubbing him knight with the
sword. The great point of the former picture, the sweet pale
hoe of the mother of Beatrice, is here comparatively libitum
though the wilful beauty, end the staunch old dowager
with bar towering bead-deem and bedizened flagely
are very true to the characters of the novelist. Eamond's ap-
pealing loving look of earnestness is also finely rendered.
Bat taken altogether the work is inferior, and the brick-like
tone rather unplesant, though the colour is in parts extremely
rich, and the accessories admirably painted.
Mr. Henley has also • highly poetical work in two
coospertmems with a beautiful morel underlying the lair,
nation. It is entitled " Flower Girls—Town and Country"
(360). In the first a number of raeaquere are at the entrance
of aha sward. In the principal group a " zany," with
his long sleeves and • Louis Quince bergire on
his arm, thrusts rudely aside a bunch of Mira
offered him by a wretched-looking flower girl, while his one-
plane, who I, evidently still unused to such scenes, loose in
pity upon another poor flower girl who has fallen asleep on the
cold ground. Preceding this couple, beckoning them, and pass-
ing out of the picture, is • figure reasqued as Meplintophadee,
who has left the impression of hie cloven hoof on some fallen
flowers. A girl waving her " folio" bells over the mowd of
gaping spectators and bard-faced smug policemen, is alight-
ing from • hired carriage and follows with other masque-
raders, while in the dim distance • pawnbroker's sign seems
to indicate what it will all come to. The other compartmeat is
the greatestposaible contrast. A number of children intim coun-
try are gathering with innocent delight wild flowers, violets
primroses and such like, and weaving garlands, wreathe, and
nosegay., with which the elder girls laughingly decorate the
views as they nestle under • hedgerow through which
twinkles the cheerful flicker of sunlight. We have seam
nothing from Mr. Horsley so charmingly suggestive in idea
or admirable in execution as them contrasts of town and
country. There is another sweet little picture of rural life,
by this gentleman, "The Noonday Sleep" (116).
Mr. J. Lewis, though he has heretofore received little
courtesy at the hands of the hanging committees of the
Royal Academy, sends no less than six pictures. Thus,
this distinguished painter—who has pared so . many
years of his life in the practice of water-colours--
and only recently resigned his Preeldeatedp of the
Society of Painters In Water-Colours, with the intention of
devoting himself to the practice of oil—appears determined
to prove his perfect mastery of this more enduring medium.
A certain heavy—technically called " leathery "—add., ob-
servable in the works of most water-colour painters who turn
to the practice of oil, ha has contrived to avoid ; and these
pictures have all his better characteristics. With a lees
manageable vehicle he still solves one of the moist difficult
problems in art—that of uniting the most marvellously deli-
cate and minute detail with breadth of effect. A most sur-
prising example of this will be found n " Lilies and Roses,
Constantinople " (61), in which a thicket of white roue is by
the subtle employment of half-tints and skilful menage-
meet of the composition, :rendered not In the least
spotty. The graceful peas and the tasteful dress of this
Eastern beauty most he seen to be appreciated. Bat
turning boa this mnintrue, if we had to select say parti-
cular work which should exhibit the greatest number of this
artist's extracriihimp gifts, we should point to his most °on-
side:able work in the present exhibition, " A Kibab Shop,
Scutari, Asia Minor" (101). It is quite wonderful the depth
yet transparency in the inner apartment of one half of this
picture in contrast with the bright sunlight of the fore-
ground, slightly modified through the open Intervening
apartments of the " Kibab Shop," and still more intense an
roof and minaret, arec through the window in the distance.
Mr. Lunen knowledge of animal character may also be sem
in the varied Buttering. of the pigeons, and the sly look of
seeming recognition between the dog and kid. The listless
life of the Turks, sipping their coffee and smoking
their 'ogreish., le lA/Lewin, admirably pourtrayed In
the several figures, end the minutia of Oriental
detail ars, of course, Imitated with marvellous pm:limbo.
For the advantages of power and depth of tone, offered by the
new Biathlon, and already secured, we must turn to • single
figure on • Isms sods admirably broad in light and shade—
"An Arab of the Desert of Sinal"(114). This evident portrait,
moreover, Minds a gr•Yfying proof that in oil Mr. Loeb
has entirely got rid of the leaden tones which disfigured his
flesh in his water colour drawings, through the nee of crude
body colour, and the exaggeration of pearly tome. The
pioue Turk, at their afternoon prayers in the" Interior of a
Mosque at Cairo" (246), are admirable, but in all respects the
met exquisite gem of limpid colour, and In faultless setting,
like • Collin( jewel, is " An inmate of the Hharainn, Cairo"
(122), laughingly bringing in refreshments, though In very
small sine might very easily cause it to be OTWOOked ens
more readily than the other. Indeed, such refined work is
comparatively lost in such an exhibition.
Here we must for the present pause.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY,

Mendelesohn's " Athalia" and Roesini's "!Rabat Mater"
will be performed on Wednesday next, May 6. Vocalists:
Madame Clara Novell° (being her Bret appearance this sea-
son), Min Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr. Wain.
THE LONDON PRESS MUSICAL AMATEURS.—
Tn is very praiseworthy' searniation had a rimiest on Sa-
turday evening, at the Manor House, Walworth, for the
purpose of spending "An Evening with. Maori sad his
Wntings." The lecture, whki wee neatly composed and
ably delivered by Mr. a. W. Boyle, wee vocally sad in-
stramentelly 11l .W by Easenbers of the association
and lady friends, is a style of excellence far beyond the
usual reach of assetessre. The large room wee crowded
with members end Imbed mid the whole proceed-
ings of the evade( paned off to th. satire estialeceion of eQ
present.

CRLMORICE GARDENR.—The season at this favourite
place of resort will commaoos this day (Holiday , with in-
creased attractions end completely grounds.
Among other novelties there will be • las Morena. view
consisting of sixteen sketches of India. sad illsandons of
its cities, its prison, andgarole. Preparations are now
=cm for holding the show of Aeration pleats of
Waterer and Godfrey in these gardens, and many of
the plants hen %marrived and occupy their oo:sounder
the specious tot to thin towering. The ground
has been newly out, end groups of figures repreemillor
Havelock and the heroes of India occupy various command-
ing peados'. The arrangements for the music and the
ballet will be as stbrective as in former sesame.
HIGHIATET B.—On Saturday an addition was
made to the attreetkeis of this popular place of entertainment,
by the of the sew " Leviathan Platform," so called
from It. ftaeeYa as, ft being upwarda of 110 feet in log*
and sagely the ow width. A colonnade or gallery
runs walla to Its =dm loge, and is covered in with aa
arched roofed mengsind area, and supported by light pillars
of the same mamisi. In this gallery, fitted up with ammo
velvet-middens* sesta, the spectatars. or the dancers them-
selves, in ors cis midden shower of rain, may Sod ►an agree-
able place of mama. The pledorm and' pillory an lighted
by gas banish phis* In crystal vases, sad by • doom of
brilliant AO% mingled with the broad gross loves and
white Ibsen of • mass of lilies, Girsnag the capital of •
handsome peter I. the centre of the area. Mr. Hinton may
reesesellylbege to receive, during the approaching monmsr,
• large ham, of patronage sod support.

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ROYAL COLLIOZ Or Pi=lf4olB.—The follow-
ing appanatants wore sods a the of the =nail
on Saluda last : —Lard Wary sad Mr R te4et Mathison
were sisasa vkitintrare of the who •, Dr. Liao Platal.
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bead sear of Khee Oellese &heel, woo soudoeted ee
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odid le the NW of eseshore:—The la. W. Rowe, W.
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moral end political pillaiogiw.