... clever and most original pictures it may be said, perhaps, that there is wanting in them something of the refinement that belongs to the painters and the people where art has long been cultivated. At the same time it may be a question whether the grand teaching ...

... J ASOCIETY OF ART.4 RECOGNITION OF TIAE ART OF MUSIC. An interesting lecture by Mr. Henry Oborley, ont The Claims of Music to Recognition, among the Aris,' was read before the So)ciety of Arts, on Wednesday, to a nu- wferocs sni attentiveasudience. Sir ...

... keep the Flag Flying. Liberals in Hastings have been not a little gratified see their party’s colours flying from the mast the historic Hastings Castle, which is the property the of Chichester. Though Unionist, the Earl supporting Major Free.- man-Thomas ...

... remarks, the learned lecturer said this was the age of lec- turers. If the inmiortal William were alive now, instead of saying All the world's a stage, he would say ''All the world's a lecture-roomn. He repeated some verses of the . character of a ...

... at the way he was treated may have tended to accelerate the end of his useful life. Indeed this was oneO of the chief reasons of the Eudden removal of the pictures from his residence to the Royal Academy, not being able t6 keep up against the turmoil of ...

... harmony in the association, and fitness in the sequence of colour may be refined; just as by the same means our perception of harmony in the combination and melody in the succession of sounds may be improved. But what is called an eye for colour is as much ...

... merely of a quasi-religious r nature. It shows that tog a priesthood may vI ins nflict painfully hard. and uncomfortable 'seats on its Dre parishioners, they in their turn are not less alive to his the necessity of our modern improvements. Fancy~ Los being ...

... such, has no business in art, and that E p ng must deliver its messaage entirely ( by beauty of form and beauty of colour. I When once it is without these, though it may have a thousand other merits, it is not pictorial s art. It may be illustration, but ...

... feel vijid, the old impressions of the dals of Clark- SuOI S!tanfield, IR.A., whom I may call my master in the art of landsxape painting. Perhaps ray rnwmneory of him may ?? people who admire lis work. I canie to know him through old James W. Wallack, father ...

... church- yards, but, while keeping alive the memory of fast oecaying tomb-stones and ivy-crept towers, he provok- ingly conceals the rcal inscriptions under flimsy titles. Of South Downs (ll ),byMr. J. W. Allen, it may be said that a pleasant prospect ...

... of the screen and along the nave, brings sharply fetrsard the figures grouped in the edifice. These are not obtrusive, but keep their plaoe well, admirably serming the general effect, whilst the whole picture leaves the im- pressi. n that Mr. Hrghe hag ...

... upl a devil of a demonstration -with their tinanite, so that they on the stage many keep thle piece. The demonstration did tales place, and4 the piece will keep thle stage, at all events for sorte time to come. Thle costumeis were capital, andt the ...