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At the Lyceum, ' 1‘. never ey Ian again given
proofs of his artistic talent in the scenery to a melo-
dramatic piece, called the Seven Champions of
Christendom. One of the great merits of Mr.
Beverley’s productions is a singleness of thought
carried out without fritter or feebleness. Whether
the subject be simple or complicated, he never
forgets the leading principle. Thus in the court-
yard of the Brazen Castle, and the half buried
columns of a temple in the valley of the Nile, there
is all the positive truth of the subject. In this
piece, however, the enchanted garden of Osman-
dine with its long vistas of rocky arcades, and the
camp of the Seven Champions, were the most gor-
geous and elaborate of the performances, truly
redolent of vivid daylight and gaiety of tint. Ina
one-act piece called “A Romantic Idea,” a view of
the ruins of a Feudal Castle on a steep eminence, is
a landscape, which for purity of colour and delicious
tones of its aerial perspective, is worthy of many of
the great names among our English School. The
interior by moonlight of the same mined edifice
has the gothic tracery exquisitely detailed; it is
drawn by the hand of the master and with the
eye of an architect; the cynical antiquary would
at least be pleased with it, if he were (leaf to the
German mysticism which is given as the story to
this decorative painting.