Landscape Illustrations of the Waverley Novels. Part V.
The Fifth Part of this pretty and interesting work contains the Monastery of St. Mary's, by Pnour ; Holy Loch, by HAnniNe ; Bothwell Castle, by RAMSAY REINAGLE; and Peel Castle, by Gam- wean. The last in particular is a beautiful picture, and treated with that delicacy and care which characterize this artist's drawings, and with more than his usual spirit. Bothwell Castle is a sweet piece of repose; though there is a cloud which we would fain have had displaced—it mars the quiet of the aiirial distance. Mr. PROUT never looks so well through the medium of engraving ; and the neatness of the present plate is yet less favourable to his bold and rugged fidelity. . Mr. HARPING has not, we think, had justice done him in this number. The distant mountains beyond Holy Loch are ranch too near, and there is a deficiency of brilliancy without a due portion of repose ; and the whole picture is not in keeping. He manages these things better in his lithography, though even there he occasionally wants airiness in his dis- tances.
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