illustrated the harmonic skill of our forefathers; finished palace of Charles V., the parish church while several modern productions of great beauty of Santa-Maria, and the Franciscan convent, proved incontestibly that the present age could are all prominently conspicuous. At the foot of find competitors worthy to cope with the giants the hill of the Alhambra, and on the sides of the of the past. Of the early compositions, Burnet's two adjoining hills, is seen the city, the squares, "Flow on, my tears," with its pure and massive principal streets, and public buildings, each of harmony, and Webbe's magnificent "When which may be as easily traced as on a map; the winds breathe soft," were perhaps the most cathedral, the ancient convents and churches, striking. Of later works, Mendelssohn's "Judge and numerous miradors, rising conspicuously me, O Lord!" and "Hunter's Farewell" went above the vast masses of brown roofs, form with remarkable effect; and "Lutzow's Wild striking features, and contrast pleasantly with Hunt," by Weber, startled the audience into a the numberless little gardens and orangeries in unanimous encore by its characteristic vigour the open courts below, and the flower-decked and freshness. A similar compliment attended terraces on many of the roofs above. Towards Hutton's melodious caution entitled "Beware," the right is seen the Bass of the mills, and the the warning burden of which is specially ad- valley of the Darro, through which the river sodressed to young gentlemen in danger of named winds its way, under embowered terraces, "Trust her not, she is fruit-groves and flower-gardens, the favourite fooling thee," created a profound sensation. retreats of the Moors, in the small pavilions of Here indeed was a happy combination of the which, then so numerous, they enjoyed at once stile et dulce not too often found in musical seclusion, the finely-tempered breeze, and the union. Excellent Mr. Hutton! dom "owes thee one." Bachelor- flowers and fruit to which they were so partial. We cannot particu- Beyond the city is seen the rich and fertile Vega, larize further, but heartily recommend all lovers in all its vast extent and great beauty, until lost of part-singing to go to the next concert, and in the hazy distance, its broad surface covered judge for themselves. They will not be disap-with plantations of luxuriant growth, yellow "maidens fair to see." pointed. corn-fields, and lovely gardens; the whole wonderfully rich to the eye, the darker tints of the orange-groves, and the sombre cool hues of the olive-plantations, strikingly contrasting with the BURFORD'S PANORAMAS. We promised in our last to give a more ample vivid colouring of the ripening crops, and the description than we then had space for, of the bright light green of the mulberry, apricot, Le panorama of Granada, now exhibiting in almond, and other fruit-trees. A few palm-trees Leicester-square. It is indeed a triumph of the here and there raise their graceful heads, and highest kind in the school of art to which it mingle well with the foliage they rise above. belongs; and praise is due both for the choice The river Xenil, joined by the Darro a little beof so interesting a subject, and for the able yond the city, traverses the plain, its course manner in which it has been treated. Granada clearly marked by the long line of trees that and the Alhambra! The very words conjure adorn its banks, and numerous other little up a host of romantic recollections and poetical streams, shining in the sun like threads of fancies-and here the scene itself is so vividly silver, intersect the Vega in every direction. the illusion, and revelled in this mimic representa- besides numberless villas and farms, many of portrayed that, in spite of the biting cold of our Reposing in the undulating bosom of this deEnglish April, we lent ourselves the other day to lightful Eden, are upwards of thirty villages, tion of luscious foliage, and a sunny sky, and a glowing atmosphere. The view is taken from wonderful luxuriance of surrounding nature: the which are totally concealed from sight by the the Generalife, an ancient summer-palace of the others shine like islands of oriental pearls, in Certainly this is one of the most attractive panoramas Mr. Burford has ever Moorish sovereigns, situated on a rock near, but an emerald sea.'' much more elevated than the Alhambra. "Im mediately beneath the spectator stands the long produced. It must have been prepared with inof its most beautiful gardens. Beyond is the assisted as usual by Mr. Selous. But the paintline of the palace of the Generalife, in the midst finite care and labour, Mr. Burford having been the Albambra, the whole of which is distinctly the Lady Louisa Tenison and Mr. Uwins. finely wooded ravine that separates them from ing itself is, we believe, taken from drawings by visible, and the long belt of battlements forming In the smaller circles, under the same roof, the T the outward boundary of the fortress, may be panorama of Nineveh, and that of the Bernese NEW SOCIETY OF PAINTERS the palace of the Moorish sovereigns, the most hibition is among the early tokens that the perfect and beautiful specimen of Arabian archi- London season has begun. The superiority of tecture extant in Europe, the several red towers, the English school of water-colour painting is so especially the huge markable in history mass of Comares, each re- marked, and so generally acknowledged, that it is needless to expatiate on the theme; but the "New Society" has always been ambitious in its choice of subjects-venturing into regions of art which, until of latter years, had been considered forbidden ground to the water-colour painter; yet Corbould, and Haghe, and Vacher, and Warren, and many others, have boldly entered the new territory, and by right of conquest have made it their own. We cannot call to mind any effects produced by oil that are more true and powerful than those we find in the "Salle d'armes in the castle of Salzbourg" (No. 84), by Louis Haghe, in the present exhibition. The light reflected on the armour literally dazzles the eye; and the bold, free drawing, which is combined with the highest finish, renders this work quite a master-piece. Perhaps, however, the gem of the year is Edward Corbould's large picture, "The Magic Mirror" (279). The subject is a very charming one-the supposed vision of Surrey when he consults the wizard Cornelius, and is shown the Lady Geraldine as she -"read from tablet eburnine Some strain that seemed her inmost soul to find: That favoured strain was Surrey's raptur'd lineThat fair and lovely form, the Lady Geraldine." Mr. Corbould has treated this theme like the poet-painter that he is. Gorgeous as the picture is, everything is subdued to the expression of the principal figures-the joy, the glory of Surrey; the loving pride, the perfect trust, the grace, the beauty of the Lady Geraldine. It is one of the pictures that ministers to the hearta picture it would be good to live with. No. 183,"Gurth and Wamba" (vide Ivanhoe), by W. K. Keeling, is a work of great merit. The intellectual countenance of the "Fool" is quite a study. No. 195. Another subject from Scott, "Dirk Hatteraick in the Cave," by Chas. H. Weighall, is undoubtedly very clever; but its very fidelity to a repugnant subject turns one aside. thoroughly real flesh-and-blood beauty of the two frightened peasant-girls contrasts forcibly with the weird loveliness of the river-spirits. No. 219. "The Nun," by John Absolon, is in some respects a powerful picture; yet we do not like the straight line of the couch; and the hand, drooping till it quite rests on the stone floor, has an unreality about it from two causes: the arm is surely a little stick-like-and we are irresistibly reminded that the nun of one day would infallibly be awakened by the touch of the cold stone. It is the province of the true artist to hold at bay all such prosaic associations. No. 236. "The Walk to Emmaus," by Henry Warren, hardly tells its story clearly; but the colouring and eastern atmosphere maintained are admirable. This exhibition is of course rich in still-life pieces, in landscapes, and in marine subjects. Among the last we would especially commend 131, "Belgian Galliot running out of the Scheldt," by Thos. S. Robins. The motion of the waves seems to us wonderfully indicated, · and the colouring is rich, yet subdued to perfect truth. No. 22. "Coniston Lake-Breezy Day," by James Fahey, is a carefully-finished and charm. ing picture-evidently well studied from nature; indeed this artist contributes some excellent landscapes. Mrs. Margetts exhibits flowers and fruit which are as life-like as ever; and in one of her pictures there is a dead peacock, whose feathers seem absolutely real. Indeed ladies are very creditable members of this society; witness in this present exhibition the productions not only of Mrs. Margetts, but of Miss Setchell, the Misses Corbaux, Mrs. Harrison, Miss Iarris, Miss Egerton, &c., &c. We have scarcely left ourselves room to allude to the landscapes of Davidson and Bennett, to Mr. Wehnert's elaborated picture of "The Singers;" or to Vacher's productions; but we will try to make amends for our deficiencies next The month. No. 89. "The Haunted Stream," by Augustus Bouvier, is a charming little picture. THE TOILET. For evening dress, tunics (which are, after all, double skirts) are in vogue; they are generally rounded at each side; sometimes they are looped up with a bunch of flowers, or a bow of ribbon, and they may be trimmed with a ruche of narrow ribbon. Sleeves for ball dresses are very short, generally formed by the draperie or folds of the corsage; the draperie must not lie too flat on the sleeve: on the top is placed a knot of ribbon, or, if the gown be trimmed with flowers, there should be flowers likewise on the sleeves. For quite young ladies who go to evening parties, gowns in tarlatane, or muslin, with double skirts with broad hems, are very pretty and fresh. Girls of all ages wear flounces; but until eighteen, wide tucks are much younger and more suitable. For, small parties a skirt in light silk, with a white canezou, is very much worn. A very convenient and useful, and at the same time a pretty article of dress, is a jacket with basques in Marseille; they are generally made up to the throat, with a little turnover collar, pagoda sleeves, and down the front the large white cotton buttons is much worn, on the fronts of the thick habit shirts: this little corsage looks very fresh; it can be worn with skirts, the bodies of which are a little worn, or it enables you to buy remnants of silk, or other materials, when there is enough only for a skirt. Broderie Anglaise, as it is called here, is as much in the mode as ever for collars, sleeves, petticoats, canezous, &c., &c. It is so easy to do that it only requires a little care; and young ladies may thus make themselves articles of lingerie, which give more elegance than any other additions to dress at a very small cost: the small plaits in collars and sleeves are also quite easy to make, and are in very good taste; the effect of the little plaits in thick linen collars may be produced by sewing narrow white cotton braid in rows; four or five for instance; the sleeves with turnover cuffs, or a simple wristband, with the braid sewn on in the same manner. The bonnets are very small and open; straw is a good deal worn. I have seen some very pretty ones; one was simple white, plain straw, with a white ribbon crossed, and strings; and a little ruche in Garrow ribbon round the outside of the brim, and continued all round the barolet, which was in broad white ribbon with a narrow edge of straw sewed on; another was also straw, with wide straw-coloured ribbon, with a little black line on the edge: the rbon was simply crossed with strings; and inside, at the edge of the brim, was a row of black lace vandyked and sewed almost plain: there was no other trimming in the interior; the full bandeaux supplied the place; but it requires a very young and a very fresh face to dispense with the blonde or tulle, which is so becoming to every one. A new form of basque has appeared, called basquine Boleros, from their resemblance with the corsage of the gitanos: these basquines are cut in points. I must tell you, however, that basques and barquines are not precisely the same; basques are so called when they are not cut in the same piece as the corsage, but are added; basquines are all in one piece with the body: they are much more difficult to make, and it is rarely that they fit well. Even when they succeed they take from the roundness and smallness of the waist. The basquine boleros are trimmed all round with fringe, a ruche of ribbon, or a galon. The prettiest trimming for them is lace not too wide. Bareges, muslin, and thin materials are made froncé, or gathered in plaits at the waist, and full above, forming a sort of fan shape, very becoming to slight persons. For young ladies the corsage à la vierge is coming into fashion again: it is an old mode that has never quite been abandoned; the shoulder pieces are square and the front and back fall, gathered at the waist before and behind. Walking dresses in thick materials are made up THE to the throat, and plain, with large buttons down the front of the corsage, and the collars called mousquetaire collars; they are very large and vandyked. For demi-toilette, lace, muslin, and net (trimmed). Cardinals are coming in again. The old saying, of "Keep a thing which appears useless for seven years, and if then it is useless for seven more," may be applied with more truth to the fashions than to anything else, for almost all old modes come back again. The new mantelets are very elegant, and show off a fine figure; they are called pelisse, pronounced p'lisse. I will describe as accurately as I can the make. Behind, it is in a piece quite plain, something like the back of a camisole, sometimes rounded at the bottom, sometimes coming down in a point; the former is more general: the front is also in one piece, and plain arm-holes, with a bow of ribbon at the top. The garniture or trimming is à la vielle; that is, the ribbon on silk drawn in two drawings, and a frill drawing is placed. Some of these pelisses have a coming out at the two edges beyond where the flounce of the same material descending from the plain piece; for summer this form will be in lace. Here is one of the latest spring toilettes: gown in violet taffetas, with six flounces, trimmed with a fringe of passementerie falling in little tassels: the corsage is open half way down, and with basques; the same trimming as that of the skirt is placed in rows across the body; the sleeves opened at the side have the same trimming, which unites them; the chemisette is a turned over collar in embroidered Bonnet of muslin, trimmed with Valenciennes. white gauze bouillonnée; the crown of blonde; marabout feathers on each side. Bottines in violet. Berthes are worn in evening toilettes; three volants of lace placed one above another rather full compose the berthe, and a bow of ribbon in the middle completes it. An attempt has been made to set aside bavolets in the bonnets: it is to be hoped for many reasons that this mode may not succeed in the first place, it spoils the appearance of the bonnet; in the second, it is terribly unbecoming; and in the third, the bavolet protects the neck of the wearer from the sun. GARDEN. MA Y. "At last young April, ever frail and fair, Woo'd by her playmate with the golden hair, Chased to the margin of receding floods O'er the soft meadows starred with opening buds, In tears and blushes sighs herself away, And hides her cheek beneath the flowers of May." GENERAL REMARKS.-If we except the late period at which most of our tender fruits expanded their blossoms, and the injury done to Sundry plants which had stood the last three or four winters, as well as the deficiency of Broccoli and some other things, there does not seem to be any very marked difference between the state of things in general at the present period and that which we usually meet with at the same time of the year. Nature is so accommodating in all her movements, that whatever severities we are now and then O. W. HOLMES. made to feel are usually compensated in another way; and though we have the usual long list of complaints of injury done to plants, the unkind working of the soil, and other misfortunes—and in our own department we could make out a goodly list of such grievances-yet we are inclined to believe that the present season holds out a full share of promise as regards the future. Yet our gardening friends will have all felt the effects of the long delay of ordinary out-door work, so as to have had their "hands full" lately. However, the busy time will |