... Madrazo in exchange for the Spanish colour and tact in toning which their school seems altogether to have repudiated. Seriously speaking, the French painter possesses these qualities in a higher degree than anyone since Velasquez, and the new Spanish school ...

... quaint appearance. In a speech of some length, he describes what he imagines, or rather what he feels, a poet to be; as he speaks, the actor's voice rings with a new tenderness, his face takes a new expression of mingled exultation and sadness; a sense ...

... nature. To speak of one of the greatest thinkers that France or any other country has produced as the profligate and sentimental infidel Rousseau, is a needlessly vulgar mistake. Some of the state- ments are ludicrously reckless, as speaking of Robespierre ...

... added. I wish to Heaven the Spring would look like your ladysbip. A college etudent being examined in Locke, where lie speaks of our relations to the Deity, wao askled, Whiat relations do we moast neglect?' when lie answered with much simplicity ...

... not an ambitious uelo; doubtless Mr. Marks would prefer to be judged by Iis Apothecary in the next room of which we shall speak presently. Some of the strongest work in Gallery No. IL. Ys in the domain of portraiture; and among these portraits that of ...

... they would rather not have seen, namelv, the uncompromnising Elijah, who, as the messenger of the King of kings, dared to speak the truth in the ears of earthly potentates. Mr. Frank Dicksee, the painter of the picture from which our engraving is taken ...

... regrets the remembrance of a purer passion, became identified with Wagner's artistic purification. We are of course not speaking of dry detailed symbolism in the ordinary sense; but at the same time it cannot for a moment be denied that Wagner has succeeded ...

... are worked out with a nicety and finish which might well serve as a model to some of his younger confrc;-es, the characters speak and act in accordance with the principles they are intended to embody, and each climax comes naturally and in its most proper ...

... Mdlle. Emma Abbott, another young American beginner, who selected the Figlia del Reggimento for her debut on Tuesday, we must speak on another occasion. Tannhdzuser to-night, after five performances of other works, and rehearsals day after day, will be somewhat ...

... documents, and reports. Of the most interesting point of aill, the Government purchase of the Khedive's interest, Mr. Fitzgerald speaks with studied moderation. That the old shares-save in one possible contingency, the silting-up of the Port Said mouth-will ...

... coarseness, as in all that Aphra Biehn wrote; but we are coming to the English Harlequin directly. His name was Jevons, a speaking Harlequin, and a very clever fellow indeed, with something of the Vokes Family; some- thing of Fred. Evans, something of ...

... the youngest, and certainly one of the most promising artists of the day. There is no need of a catalogue here. The picture speaks for itself. It is only necessary to look into the face of the strong labouing man rocking his child on his knee in an agony ...