The Photographic art-journal . uld never have been able to three-fourths of M. Guizotsvolume is devoted (o criticisms of certainpictures of thi Italian and French schools ;by Raffaelle, Giulio Romano, Correggi>,Andrew dtl , Paul Veronese, the Ca-racci, Guido, Domenichino, Carlo Dolci4Nicholas Pouissin, Lcseur, &c. &c. 1 heseobseivations show the writer to hd wellversed in the philosophy of painting, andto possess a thorough knowledge of the spi-rit and style of the respective artists. Mr. Scharfs drawings, in < u In e, f oiu manyof the pictuies t .us u j cud to critic
The Photographic art-journal . uld never have been able to three-fourths of M. Guizotsvolume is devoted (o criticisms of certainpictures of thi Italian and French schools ;by Raffaelle, Giulio Romano, Correggi>,Andrew dtl , Paul Veronese, the Ca-racci, Guido, Domenichino, Carlo Dolci4Nicholas Pouissin, Lcseur, &c. &c. 1 heseobseivations show the writer to hd wellversed in the philosophy of painting, andto possess a thorough knowledge of the spi-rit and style of the respective artists. Mr. Scharfs drawings, in < u In e, f oiu manyof the pictuies t .us u j cud to criticism,are well render ;d; ley are charminglyengraved by Messrs Dalziel, D«Iamotte,Cooper, A. anl S. Williams, and WeDickes. Mr. Grove has, upon the whole,common lably performed his ta. k of tians-lating th ; text, but it lequires so e littlerevision, especially tvilh regard t • thepunctuation : n vertheless, the book is onewhich every student of high A. t shoulddesire to possess. ON LENSES FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC T is, to the photographicartist, a matter of consider-able moment that he un-derstands the principlesupon which his instrumentsare constructed. It has,therefore, been thought ad-visable to add a short chapterwhich should give a sufficiently po-pular explanation of the dioptricalphenomena with which we haveespecially to the refractive pqwer of the mediaemployed, depends the perfection of theresults we obtain ; therefore, some of thephenomena of refraction, or breaking back,as the term implies, should be clearly un-djrstood. A ray of light passing through a vacuumprogresses in a perfectly straight line, andwe should, if we looked at a brilliantly il-laminated point—where it possible—undersuch conditions, see it in its true position,the numerous rays coming undisturbed di-rectly to the eye. But all matter, how-ever attenuated it may be, has the propertyof refracting, or bending the ray of light;consequently we do not see the stars intheir true positio
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