Another record of the Russian war is a brace of
views of Sebastopol, which are to be published in large-sized coloured lithography by Messrs. Day and Sons ; the original water-colours being at present in the hands of Messrs. Jennings, of Cheapside. The first is Sebastopol as it was, from a drawing made in 1848 by Captain Simeonoff, a draughtsman in the Sebastopol Ordnance Office ; the second is Sebastopol as it is (or MSS immediately after the evacuation of the South side) from a photograph and sketches taken at the time by M. Vasilkovitch, a Polish artist, by permission of the Russian authorities. Both have been put into shape by Mr. Whittock, an architectural draughtsman of our own. The pecu- liarity which distinguishes them from other views of the same place is the definiteness and extensive range of their detail ; every point of interest in the city, and perhaps most of the buildings of whatever kind, being visibly marked out.
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