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... I ART conflicts with nature to a less glaring extent in the present exhibition of the Royal Academy than was the case last year; nevertheless, there are still too many instances in which the artist, from anxiety to produce effect of colour, or from ignorance of the natural phenomena of the subject which he handles, or both, depicts that which is untenable in nature-either absolutely impossible ...

... A POPULAR DEMAGOGUE OF THE LAST GENERA TION.* THis is ore of those books which, relating only the life and experience of a self-taught and, as regards the great current of affairs, an obscure man, is yet a book which throws real light on the condition and progress of this country during the first half of the present century. Joseph Barker, the fifth child of a family of eleven (five sons and ...