• We have often wondered that no views should have
been published of the Pyrenees, associated as these mountains are with warlike recol- lections, and whose grand scenery must have been familiar to so many English officers and artists also. The hiatus in the series of Views of European Scenery is now supplied in a work of Mr. YOUNG, the First Number of which is just published, in a style and size corresponding with the Views by Captain BATTY and others. The drawings are made by GASTINEAU, COX, 8:c. from sketches by the author, who also supplies descriptive letterpress. Each Number, being confined to one district, will be complete in itself. The first illustrates Bagnkes de Bigorre (the Cheltenham of the Pyrenees), and the Valley of Cam- pin. The Views have the appearance of being accurate ; and, most of them having a background of stupendous mountain scenery, they pos- sess considerable grandeur. The effects are, however, rather feeble ; and the engravings of E. FINDEN do not add to their force, being tame, heavy, and not so highly finished as we are accustomed to see. Messrs. FINDEN engrave very neatly on a small scale; but in larger plates they do so much with the etching-point, that the graver is much less em- ployed than it should be, and the consequent deficiency of work is too evident. These subjects deserve and require the exercise of the finest skill ; and GASTINEAU'S ability affords good ground for the engraver to work upon. We think that justice has not been done to the originals.
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