From Fine Art we may turn to glance at the
art which has now struck so deep a root, and which pushes its ramifications in such manifold direc- tions—Photography. No special photographic discovery, that we are aware of, has signalized the present season ; but its activity, whether in recognized societies or in professional or private efforts, continues un- bounded. The London Photographic Society has made some important modifications both in its constitution and its personnel; and its Journal, under the editorship of the Reverend John Major, has assumed new and increasing importance. Photographers are urged to be alive in contri- buting to the British Association, which meets next month in Chelten- ham, and to the Exhibition of Industrial Arts at Brussels, also forth- coming next month. Meanwhile, one of the most successful collections to which the art hasgiven rise, that of Fenton's Crimean photographs, has moved from the West-end, with some added items, to the City—Mr. Squire's in King William Street; and a valuable series of 163 views from Malta, Alexandria, Cairo, Thebes, Upper Egypt, and Nubia—taken by Mr. Robert Murray, late Chief Engineer to the Viceroy of Egypt— is housed at Mr. Hogarth's in the Haymarket.
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