... I i I I I I A| ! ?? _ pO THE ROYAL ACADEMY I. IT cannot be said that the present exhibition is the best that has been seen at Burlington House, but it is very nmuch the largest. D)uring the past year three rooms, now occupied by water-colour pictures, works in black and white, and architectural drawings, have been added to the building. Two of them are of large size, and all are well lighted ...

... I, IN Corn/ ill this month Court Royal, by the author of John Herring, maintains the high promise of its opening chapters; and No. il, William Square is an undiluted ghost story vigorously handled. There is also a readable paper on Humours of Parlia mentary Elections. Otherwise there is not much thatis noticeable in Cmwnhill. Mrs. Annie Edwardes' serial, A Girton Girl, in Trenple ...

... ?? ?? I E IIE ?? ?? ?? ?? 1--.1 ?? .. . ?? o1w the cream of the cream li ves an d moves, and has-its being; what the hidle, the people who pull (or at any rate in ?? days used to pull) the strings of Government, (1o and say whets they are not before the public ; what are the bright things which make their letters warth reading, their talk worth recording-to be interested in this is a very ...

... - -- - ?? - - 1', , I. ?? .. 1 . ? I ?? ?? . . .. ! i EP : - ?.Ry u I ROVAL SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WVATER COLOURS SINCF. the last exhibition at th, Gallery in Pall Mall East, two artists, Mr. H-eywood Hardy and Mr. C. Robertson, have been elected Associates Of the Society; but their contributions to the present collection dlo not materially add to its attractiveness. IMlr. Ilardy's only ...

... II. A MORE important work by Sir Frederick Leighton than that Already mentioned is the large decorative frieze, Music, hanging in the fourth gallery. In various attitudes of statuesque simplicity mnd grace, slightly-draped figures with symbolic attributes are ranged on either side of a golden statue. 'The draperies are cast in grand and simple folds, and their colours well-chosen, with a ...

... THiE immature efforts of a young man do not call for any great measure of blame, especially when they are introduced to the pubiC by so modest a preface, as is the case with Lochow, and other Olfhrings in Verse, by Alfred Henry Bell (Cape Town :Saul Solomon). The little volume is probably intended chicily for private circulation, and tloubtless will give as much pleasure to thle aithor's ...

... * ~ YYXUSI~ ~N NEMR17 , DVORAK- - MACKENZIE.-On Wednesday Antonin DvorAi conducted, at St. James's Hall, the first performance in public ol his patriotic Ode, dedicated to the English people. The Ode ' is an appeal of the Slavs for liberty, and it is permeated with the patriotic spirit. As music, it cannot be considered apart from it- essentially nationalist surroundings, and its ...

... I THE East London Industrial Exhibition, opened by the Princess Louise and her husband, with the Marchioness of Ripon, Lady Edith Ashley, and half a dozen other peeresses among its stall- keepers, is in some sort a corollary to the Toynbee Hall and Universities' Mission. Both tend to bring East and Vest closer together; to help the West to understand how the East lives, and -hat manner of ...

... Nexav I TRAJAN : The History of a Sentimental Young Man, with Some Episodes in the Comedy of Many Lives' Errors, by Henry F. Keenan (i vol. : Cassell and Co)., is the first work of fiction that has dealt competently and adequately with the history of the fall of the Second French Empire and the reign of the Commune. Mlr. Keenan has gone to work in the right way, and, while making his ...

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... (~O,.tTHE C~OURXT T11E QUEEN kept her sixty-sixth birthday on Sunday at Balimoral, Where Her Majesty is. accompanied by the Princesses Loukse aesi Beatrice, Princess Leiningen, and the children of the Duke and( Duchess of Connaught. Only nine previous British Sovereign, have exceeded the Queen's ?? and Edward I., Queen Eli/almth the four Georges, and William IV.-while Her Majesty is thi blest ...

... ,4 TM.EATkE THE farewell revival of Ours at the HAYMARKET Theatre on Saturday evening met with a reception which has not been characteristic of first nights at the Hlaymarket since that house passed into the hands of its present management. The audience were somewhat cold and apathetic, nor did even the patriotic ring of the references to Russia or the tokens of the military excitement in ...