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DIORAMA OF THE SEAT OF WAR.
The Diorama at the Gallery of Illustration showing the two great Southern points of interest in the war—the line of the Danube and the shores of the Black Sea—is now reinforced by the Northern scene of operations—the Baltic. The views presented in this section are the English fleet in Wingo Sound ; Point 'Cullen ; the Kronberg and Elsi- nore (where, says the lecturer to an unresisting audience, they point out the spot at which " poor Ophelia " lies buried !) ; Copenhagen ; the French fleet in Rid Bay ; Stockholm ; Aland ; Bomarsund ; Range Head, with its revolving light ; Ekness, with the Arrogant and Hecht cutting out their Russian prize ; Helsinfors and Sweaborg; Cronstadt, apparently after the view published by Messrs. Colnaghi; and finally St. Petersburg, being the same picture which has been given ever since the early rumours of war turned men's thoughts in that direction. The list of titles suffices to show that Messrs. Grieve and Telbin keep a sharp look-out and a prompt paint-brush for the points of chief interest ; which will doubtless continue to succeed one another at their Gallery fast in the wake of movements, actions, newspapers, and despatches. Of the three series of pictures, as such, that on the Danube is the most commendable ; but each is worthy of the others in this respect—and all, let us trust, worthy of the subject in authenticity. The moving view of the arrival of the English and French fleets at Varna, concluding the exhibition, is noticeably lifelike and well-maneuvered.
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