The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-07 00:00:00

The latter has done all the justice to his subject, of
which it was susceptible. The stanzas in allusion to
this theme, are from the pen of Mary Howitt, and
nothing can be simpler or more affecting. In the plate
of " Cromwell and his Daughter," we miss the huge,
red nose of " Old Noll"—in other respects the picture
is admirable, its details being well managed, especially
the decorations of the gothic-looking Chamber, which\
have an air of richness and elaborate finish about them
creditable to the pains•taking of the artist. The cha-
racter of the plate is explained by a " Dramatic
Sketch" from the pen of Mr. Serle, which is by many
degrees the best thing in the volume. " Porch of
Chartres Cathedral" is one of Prout's substantial and
striking architectural displays. The figures within
the porch are dexterously grouped, and give an air of
bustle and cheerfulness to the scene. Before we close
our brief notice, we must ❑ot omit to mention the bind-
ing of this favourite Annual, which is rich without
being tawdry.

JUVENILE FORGET-ME-NOT.
Ackermann. London, 1835.

An Annual which, both in the style of its embel-
lishments, and literary contents, is admirably adapted
to the capacity of children. Mrs. Hall is the editor, a
lady who has distinguished herself by the production of
tales for the youth of both sexes, nearly, if not quite,
as good as those written by lioffiand, Edgeworth, and
Wakefield. " Irish Jerry "is a lively, interesting little
story, just the sort of thing for an intelligent child to
peruse with avidity. The poetry is of the same simple,
unassuming character.

NEW YEAR'S GIFT.
Whittaker. London. 1835.
A handsome, and well got up Annual, containing,
among many other pleasing compositions in rhyme and
reason (that is to say, in verse and prose) a clever
talc, entitled "Thoughts on Passing Things," by
Cornelius Webb—the fattest mad most good-natured
of that vast poetic flock, who bronze on Parnassus, and
drink of the Castalian fount.

PICTURESQUE ANNUAL.
Longman : London, 1835.
Mr. Leitch Ritchie, who is the Editor of this
Annual, gives us in the present volume, the results of
his desultory wanderings through a considerable por-
tion of European Russia. His sketchy narrative, we
need not say, is written with liveliness, and that pe-
culiar tact, which long practice in doing books of
travels Once or twice a year, never fails to give a man.
In fact the pen of a practised tourist is visible in every
page ; though nowhere do we find symptoms of that
deeper perspicacity and intelligence which lent such a
charm to the travels of the late Mr. Inglis. T 4
utmost we can say of the Editor of. the " Picturesque
Annual" is, that he is an agreeable writer, who sees
all that lies nn the surface, and knows admirably well
how to cater for the tastes of the drawing-room. His
details of his visit to St. Petersburgh ; of the state of so-
ciety in that imposing city—for all travellers concur
in opinion that it is one of the finest cities in
Europe, though of, comparatively speaking, such mo-
dern date—of its charitable institutions ; system of
police ; and above all, of its origin under Peter the
Great, who it is calculated, sacrificed the lives of " up-
wards of three hundred thousand men," in the perilous
task of draining the marshes of the Neva, and laying
the foundations of the future Russian metropolis ;—all
these various details are given Mr. Ritchie, with
much liveliness of manner, though with most of them
the public has been for years acquainted, through the
medium of at least a dozen books of travels. The anec-
dotes in particular of Peter the Great, and of his famous
marriages of the dwarfs, may be met with in any of
the numerous Memoirs of that extraordinary barbarian ;
but, indeed, for aught we can see to the contrary,
the whole amount of information which be has int-
. parted to us respecting St. Petersburgh, might have
been supplied by Mr. Ritchie without ever stepping