"Thou shalt not die," rejoin'd the maid;

"O rather live to hate, upbraid

But no! my grievous fault forgive;

I feel I can't without thee live."

nd now comes the éclaircissement that all devout
aders of fairy tales might have expected :—
Beauty had scarce pronounced the word
When magic sounds of sweet accord,
The music of celestial spheres,
As if from seraph harps, she hears!
Amazed she stood-new wonders grew;
For Beast now vanish'd from her view:
And lo! a Prince, with every grace
Of figure, fashion, feature, face,

In whom all charms of Nature meet,
Was kneeling at fair Beauty's feet.

"But where is Beast?" still Beauty cried:
"Behold him here," the Prince replied.

Orasmyn, lady, is my name,

In Persia not unknown to fame,

TIE this re-humanising hour

The victim of a fairy's power,

Till a deliverer could be found

Who, while the accursed spell still bound,

Could first endure, tho' with alarm,

And break at last by love the charm.

he young couple are, of course, married and happily ever afterwards. The spiteful is share the fate of Lot's wife, changed to des not to be called back to life until they nt and change. Orasmyn and his happy le are fêted by a throng of loyal and loving jjects.

o much for the story and the treatment of it; extracts given will suffice to show how far rnal supports external evidence in leading o attribute the little piece to the authorship Charles and partly, perhaps, also of Mary ab. The resemblance, frequent and striking, nany of the best as well as to many of the st passages in 'Poetry for Children' should be noted by those sufficiently interested in subject to follow out the hint in detail.

ternal evidence all tends in the same direc

n. I should mention in regard to my treasure ve that I found 'Beauty and the Beast' tother with a copy of the already authenticated rince Dorus' (hitherto also supposed to be que), in precisely similar binding and uniform very respect, except that the latter possesses full title-page, which the former lacks. he fact that no mention, direct or indirect, e little piece should occur in Charles Lamb's lished correspondence is not surprising, and easily intelligible when we consider the nerous lacunce that occur in the letters of

particular period (1810-11) hitherto brought ght. The published letters of Charles Lamb a mere selection of the letters he actually te-nay, even of the letters still probably preed, with perhaps too jealous and exclusive ardianship, in odd nooks and corners. ust be remembered that neither is there any tion by Lamb himself of his tale of 'Prince

And

as the authenticity of which is irrefragably blished not only by internal evidence, but an entry, accompanied by a corroborative Enote, in his friend Crabb Robinson's Diary. ogether the weight of evidence-external and mal-in favour of Lamb's authorship, posy in collaboration with his sister, of 'Beauty the Beast' seems to be overwhelming, in absence of any other likely or possible

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JOHN PEARSON.

'Worth the Winning,' by E. Hornbrook,'Margaret Casson's Resolve,' by E. C. Kenyon, —' David Elliott,' by C. E. Irvine,-' Us Three,' by A. B. C.,-a new packet of the series "Something for Sunday," entitled 'Messages from Heaven,' and a new painting book bearing the title of Mother and Mine,' 'The Secret of the Forest,''That Boy Tom,'' East and West,' 'Oughts and Crosses,' and 'Lost Maggie,' by M. E. Winchester,-together with three new stories in their popular "Home Series."

Messrs. Burns & Oates's announcements are: the second volume of the Literary and Biographical History, or Bibliographical Dictionary, of the English Catholics from 1534 to the Present Time,' by Joseph Gillow, -a translation from the German of the 'Apologia for the Christian Religion,' by Prof. Hettinger, of Würzburg, in three volumes, The English Catholic Nonjurors of 1715; being a Summary of the Register of their Estates, with Genealogical and other Notes,' edited by J. O. Payne, logical and other Notes,' edited by J. O. Payne, The Following of Christ,' by John Tauler, translated from the original German by J. R. Morell, The Life of S. Philip Benizi, of the Order of the Servants of Mary, 1233-1285,' by Father Peregrine Soulier, of the same Order,— 'The Defender of the Faith: the Royal Title, its History and Value,' by the Rev. T. E. Bridgett, 'A Handbook to the Convents and Religious existing in the United Kingdom, containing a brief History of the different Orders and Communities,' &c.,- Flora, the Roman Martyr,' in two volumes,-and 'Queen by Right Divine,' by Miss Kathleen O'Meara, being vol. ii. of the Bells of the Sanctuary.'

The autumn list of Messrs. Bentley & Son comprises The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century, 1514-1559,' by Lady Jackson, -The Coaching Age,' by Mr. Stanley Harris, author of 'Old Coaching Days,' &c., with sixteen illustrations by Mr. John Sturgess,-'Old Miscellany" Days,' stories by various authors reprinted from Bentley's Miscellany, with illustrations by George Cruikshank,- Madame Mohl and her Friends,' by Miss Grace Ramsay, -A Drive through England; or, a Thousand Miles of Road Travel,' by Mr. J. J. Hissey, author of 'An Old-fashioned Journey,' The Ingoldsby Legends,' by the Rev. Richard Harris Barham, an edition in 1 vol., at a Off,' by Emily Innes, Across the Jordan,' shilling, The Chersonese with the Gilding by Mr. C. Schumacher, C.E., with an introduction by Mr. Laurence Oliphant, 'Pastime Papers,' by Mr. Frederick Saunders,new edition of 'Salad for the Solitary and Social,' essays upon miscellaneous subjects by -a new edition of 'The Frederick Saunders Autobiography of Edmund Yates,' to which is added an account of his recent experiences in "Northern Latitudes," - -a new edition of 'Heth and Moab,' by Capt. Claud Regnier Conder, R.E., new edition of Wives and Mothers in the Olden Time,' by Lady Herbert, "The Hungarian Stories of Karl

Edler

(1. Baldine; 2. Notre Dame des Flots; 3. A Journey to the Gross Glockner Mountains), translated by Ottilie Mühlmann, and edited by the Earl of Lytton,-and new additions to "Bentley's Favourite Novels," A Perilous Secret,' by Charles Reade, and Not Like other Girls,' by Rosa Nouchette Carey. Messrs. Longman, Green & Co.'s list of announcements includes "The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes": Hunting,' by the Duke of Beaufort, K. G., and Mowbray Morris,

Sow beside all Waters,' by L. E. Guernsey,Her Husband's Home,' by E. Everett Green, On the Cliff,' by Catharine Shaw, The River Vaif; or, the Luck of Godfrey's Wharf,' by instance Cross, Afloat,' by Mrs. Stanley thes,Sent to Coventry,' by M. L. Ridley, Five Minutes Too Late,' by Emily Brodie,

Mr. Richard Bagwell, M.A., Vols. I. and II. from the first invasion of the Northmen to the year 1578,- Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Liver, Jaundice, and Abdominal Dropsy,' by Charles Murchison, M.D., new edition, revised by T. Lauder Brunton, M. D.,-' Life in the English Church (1660-1714),' by the Rev. J. H. Overton, Horse and Man: their Mutual Dependence and Duties,' by the Rev. J. G. Wood, M.A.,- Outlines of Greek Philosophy,' translated from the German of Prof. Edward Zeller by Miss Alleyne and Mr. E. Abbott, "The Knowledge Library ": 'Home Whist: an Easy Guide to Correct Play according to the Latest Developments,' by Five of Clubs (Richard A. Proctor); The Seasons pictured in Forty-eight Sun-Views of the Earth and Twenty-four Zodiacal Maps and other Drawings,' by Richard A. Proctor; and 'How to get Strong,' by Richard A. Proctor.

The autumn announcements of Messrs. Mac

millan & Co. include, in the department of general literature, The Cruise of H.M.S. Bacchante,' edited from the journals and letters of Prince Edward and Prince George of Wales by Canon Dalton,-Mr. Sambourne's illustrated edition of 'The Water Babies,'-a complete popular edition of the historical works of Mr. Francis Parkman, whose recent work on 'Montcalm and Wolfe' has attracted so much attention,- White Heather,' a new novel by Mr. William Black,-Mrs. Ward's translation of the 'Journal Intime' of M. Frédéric Amiel,'The Journal and Letters of W. Stanley Jevons,' edited by his wife,--Mr. Walter Crane's illustrated poem 'The Sirens Three,'-' A Historical and Descriptive Account of the Island of Madagascar,' by Capt. S. P. Oliver, - a new novel, 'The Story of Catherine,' by the author of 'A Lost Love,' -a third and concluding volume of Lamb's Miscellaneous Writings,' edited by the Rev. Alfred Ainger,- Music Study in Germany,' from the home correspondence of Miss Amy Fay, with a preface by Sir George Grove, and a "Golden Treasury" edition of In Memoriam.' The following theological works will be issued by the same firm a series of addresses by the Archbishop of Canterbury, -a new volume of sermons, on 'The Christian Character,' by the Dean of St. Paul's, and Archdeacon Farrar's Bampton Lectures On the History of Interpretation.' Messrs. Macmillan & Co.'s scientific and mathematical announcements include the fourth volume of Sir Henry Roscoe and Prof. Schorlemmer's 'Treatise on Chemistry,' and a new edition of Sir H. Roscoe's well-known 'Lectures on Spectrum Analysis,'-'A Manual of Geology,' by Dr. Archibald Geikie, The Elements of Thermal Chemistry,' by Mr. M. M. Pattison Muir,- The Mathematical Theory of Perfectly Elastic Solids,' by Mr. W. J. Ibbetson,--A Treatise on Elementary Statics,' by Mr. John Greaves,-'A Constructive Treatise on Plane Curves,' by Mr. T. H. Eagles,-' A Practical Treatise on Differential and Integral Calculus,' by Mr. A. G. Greenhill, and a new

on Flowers, volume in the "Nature Series Fruits, and Leaves,' by Sir John Lubbock. Of works dealing with classical history and literature Messrs. Macmillan & Co. promise a new edition of Dr. Arnold's History of the Second Punic War,' with notes by Mr. W. T. Arnold and abundant maps, -a translation of Aristotle's 'Rhetoric' by the Rev. J. E. C. Welldon,-an edition of Aristotle's Politics,' founded on that of Süsemihl, by Mr. W. M. Hicks, and Passages for Translation from Greek into English, and English into Greek,' by the Rev. Ellis Mackie. In the "Classical Series"

Literary Gossip.

THE new volume which Messrs. Macmillan & Co. will publish for Lord Tennyson early in December will consist, contrary to what some newspapers have said, almost entirely of new poems, several of them of considerable length. The most important are Tiresias, with a dedicatory epistle to the late Mr. Edward Fitzgerald; The Ancient Mystic'; The Wreck'; 'To-morrow,' a poem in Irish brogue; "The Spinster's Sweet-'arts,' in Lincolnshire dialect; and Balin and Balan,' a new "Idyll of the King."

HERE is another piece of Tennyson gossip. The November number of Macmillan's Magazine, the first that appears under the new editor, will contain a poem by the Laureate. CARDINAL MANNING is writing an article on the late Lord Shaftesbury for Merry England.

WE hear that not long ago some preparations were made for securing the production of a complete memoir of Lord Shaftesbury, based upon original and authentic documents. It was thought that the work would be undertaken by an author who is well known as a successful writer of biography.

IT is said that Mr. Robert Browning will contribute a poem to the new work which Messrs. Cassell & Co. are about to publish, entitled Why I am a Liberal.'

MR. COURTHOPE, the clever author of The Paradise of Birds,' and Mr. Elwin's successor in the editorship of Croker's 'Pope,' has in preparation a series of essays on "The Liberal Movement in English Literature,' which Mr. Murray will publish. We may add that volumes ix. and x., the two last of Pope's prose works, are in the press. Ir is reported that a well-known American publishing firm intends before long to issue a reprint of the romantic tales (the authorship of which is commonly ascribed to one of our most eminent living poets) contained in that now very scarce volume the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine.

WE hear that a box of MSS. of some historical value has been discovered in the stables of Belvoir Castle, the seat of the Duke of Rutland. The box containing these treasures seems to have been placed in the stables about sixty years ago, and to have been entirely overlooked. Among the letters are some from Warwick the Kingmaker, and it is reported that the collection contains

A COLLEGE for training women teachers has been opened this term in Cambridge, at Crofton Cottages, Newnham. The course of training for this year will be two terms' practical teaching in schools under the superintendence of experienced teachers, together with attendance at university lectures on education and kindred subjects. The applications for the course of training have been more than could be accepted, the numbers for the first year being necessarily limited. The principal is Miss Hughes, of Newnham College.

MR. BORLASE'S Bill for the protection of our early parish registers seems to have been quite lost sight of. Pending its revival, we would urge upon those who are anxious that these all-important records should remain in the hands of their present custodians the necessity of some steps being promptly taken for their due preservation. Few are aware that paper in the last stage of decay can, by a process known to record repairers as "sizing," be thoroughly renovated. The outlay of a few pounds would suffice to restore the most dilapidated register. A short Act might well make such repair compulsory. Those parochial authorities refusing to take sufficient care of these invaluable manuscripts could hardly object if the registers were removed from their custody. The most ancient records of the corporations of Romney and Lydd, in Kent, have quite recently been thoroughly renewed by this restorative process. BARON HÜBNER's new book 'Through the British Empire' will be out before long.

WE hear that a new quarterly review, specially devoted to Asiatic questions, will make its first appearance on January 1st,

1886.

MESSRS. GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS have just held their annual trade dinner sale, the numbers of books subscribed for showing a satisfactory result. These annual dinner sales, which formerly were held by nearly all the publishing houses, have fallen almost into desuetude. Messrs. Routledge & Sons and three or four other leading houses, however, still adhere to the old custom. Mr. Quaritch was to have a trade dinner on Friday, the 9th, when Capt. Burton was to make a speech retailing the history of his translation of the Arabian Nights.'

THE whole of the next Christmas isst of Good Words will be filled by a Shetlan romance entitled 'Britta.' The remini cences of her life which Mary Howitt contributing to the pages of Good Wor will be continued in next year's volume the magazine. Miss Sarah Doudney wi

write the special Christmas story for th Sunday Magazine. The title is 'Where Tw Ways Meet.'

THE recent works of Capt. Oliver and M Saillens on the French dispute in Madi gascar have met with approval in phila thropic circles. At a meeting of the out mittee of the Aborigines Protection Societ held at the Mansion House on Tuesday, È Lord Mayor in the chair, a resolution thank ing the two authors for their contribution to the literature of the Malagasy ques tion was adopted on the motion of Sir W McArthur, M.P.

and

WE have received from Spain intelligen of the death of Señor Valentin Llanos, brother-in-law of John Keats, and aut of two romances which attracted some atte tion in their day, namely, 'Don Estel and Sandoval the Freemason.' Llanos was in his ninetieth year, free from any specific disease when he p away in his sleep on the 14th of Aug His widow, the Fanny Keats to when many charming brotherly letters written by the poet in the first quarter the present century, retains, at the age eighty-two, her mental and bodily vig though somewhat shaken by her loss. Llanos, who was a man of much reficen and scholarship, has left among his pape an English version of the 'Gran Galeot of Echegaray, and a three-volume ma script (also in English) entitled Spanish Exile,' dealing with English m ners of sixty years since in the form novel.

WE hear that Mr. John Payne is eng upon a translation (which is to be pri for the Villon Society) of the 'Decamer

MR. EBSWORTH is working hard at Roxburghe Ballads.' Part xvi., a da number of nearly four hundred pages. shortly be ready. It consists chief amatory and bacchanalian ballads.

'THE PROVERBS OF WALES' is the tit a book to be issued shortly by Mr. Roberts, of Penmaenmawr. It will co several thousand Welsh proverbs English translations, the proverbs be classified under various heads accordin subject-matter.

unfortunately, suffered from damp and neglect, and are in bad condition. An ex

pert is engaged in deciphering them, and we shall probably in due course hear something more of this interesting find.

MR. MURRAY now definitely announces 'The Hayward Correspondence,' being a selection

translated from a Portuguese original in a Portuguese monastery. The letter appa

rently just have been circulated at the time over Europe, but has only been known Excerpta Historica.' Lord Crawford's copy hitherto through the translation in the of the Italian version is probably unique.

to numerous private letters.

bury Poets" will be 'The Songs," THE December volume of "The C and Sonnets of William Shakespeare. written an introductory note on the edited by Mr. William Sharp, who ha

series.

ris proposed to issue a new edition of niel S. Durrie's Alphabetical Index to erican Genealogies. The first edition, ned in 1868, contained about 10,000 reences, but the material which has apared in print since that date will raise number of references in the forthcoming kto at least 21,000. The publishers are Munsell's Sons, New York, and the cription price is fixed at three dollars. R. E. BELFORT BAX, who recently pubda translation, with a life and introion, of Kant's Prolegomena' and 'The aphysical Foundation of Natural Science,' in the press a concise history of philoby, for the use of students, in one volume. ill be published by Messrs. Bell & Sons. I. PAUL BOURGET, whose 'L'Irréparable' subsequent tales have excited consider+ comment, is engaged upon another eriment in fiction of some length.

N Italian gentleman has translated Mr. rdner's two articles on 'The House of ds' that appeared in the Antiquary last r, and published them in the Florentine iodical Rassegna di Scienze Sociali e Poli

le.

COURAD BEY, Director of Government cation at Constantinople, has just coned a tour in the Caucasus, where he has seeking materials for an historical work he Turkish empire and people which occupied much of his time and atten- Mourad Bey possesses some knowre of the Russian language, a

rare

mplishment among his countrymen. He even translated a Russian play-Gridoff's 'The Misfortune of having Knowe'-into Turkish.

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countries. They have at their disposal what is described in the circular as organized machinery of agents," who are not only able to speak the language of the natives, but also to command their confidence, and are persons of trained intelligence and education. The inquiry will be extended simultaneously over Syria and the whole of the lands around it, that is to say, over Egypt, Cyprus, Asia Minor, the Hauran, the valley of the Euphrates, and Armenia.

For this purpose questions will be drawn up, divided, and classified under two-and-twenty special headings. A sub-committee has been appointed to record and to arrange these questions. Letters of invitation for assistance in the preparation of the questions have been, or will be immediately, sent to everybody who is likely to be interested in the subject, and especially to all the societies, such as the Society of Antiquaries and of Biblical Archaeology, the Royal Institute of Architects, the Geographical, the Anthropological, and others.

It is obvious that the results of such an in

quiry depend wholly upon the character of the questions asked. They must be searching and minute; there is not any portion or period of life which may not suggest a series of questions,

and it is therefore desired to enlist the assistance of every one who takes interest not only in the special object for which the Palestine Exploration Fund exists, but also in all those subjects which concern manners, customs, traditions, religions, or anthropology. Among the twentytwo headings furnished by the Committee, for instance, will be found land tenure, health and disease, superstitions, language, agriculture, inand music. dustries, arts, amusements, science, proverbs,

Merrill, the American consul at Jerusalem, A paper has just been received from Dr. Selah in which he describes the discovery of what is taken to be a portion of the second wall. This is too late for publication in the new number of the society's journal. Mr. H. Chichester Hart, expedition, has given the Committee the results who accompanied Prof. Hull in his geological of his natural history observations.

ASTRONOMICAL NOTES.

ANOTHER Small planet, No. 251, was discovered by Dr. J. Palisa at Vienna on the 4th inst., which raises the number of those found by him to forty-nine.

We have received the number of the Memorie

HREE SISTERS,' a novel dealing with n a small German Residenz Stadt, which eviewed in June of last year, has been inted by Baron Tauchnitz, and also slated into German and published by a in bookseller. The author, Miss E. terre-Keeling, is engaged in writing her story named Amo, Amas.' TRANSLATION into English of Flaubert's mbo' is being prepared by Mr. French don. The book will have an introducby Mr. Edward King, the well-known M. Perrotin has published in Astronomische d to Mr. H. M. Stanley. writer, and the volume is dedi-Nachrichten, Nos. 2684-5, a third series of micro

della Società degli Spettroscopisti Italiani for July. It consists of two papers: Prof. Riccò contributes a first notice of some interesting investigations by Dr. B. Hasselberg, of St. Petersburg, on the spectrum of nitrogen; and the editor, Prof. Tacchini, has a note on the solar corona and the red twilight, in which it is suggested that the white circle lately noticed surrounding the sun when seen from the tops of high mountains may be connected with the solar corona and with the coloured sunrises and sunsets which attracted so much attention in 1883

er an

Scottish Review in its next issue will ain Principal Tulloch's paper on the rch question. The article which apred some time ago in this periodical on ne Christian Monuments at Athens' by the Marquess of Bute.

SCIENCE

THE PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND.

Committee are about to issue a circular uncing their intention of making a systematic ry into the manners and customs of the n inhabitants of Syria and the adjacent

and 1884.

metrical observations of double stars made at

the Nice Observatory in 1883 and 1884. This has already appeared in M. Tisserand's Bulletin, but a fourth series, which will follow, has not hitherto been published.

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The Companion' to the 'British Almanac for 1886' will contain, amongst other articles, one on Meteoric Streams,' by Mr. Lynn.

M. L. Thollon presented to the Académie des Sciences on the 7th of September a drawing of the solar spectrum executed by him in the observatory of Nice. Four years of most assiduous attention have been given to this work, which contains 3,200 lines, or double the number which are drawn in the atlas by Angstrom. M. Thollon explained all the precautions taken to ensure perfect truth in this atlas.

MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. will publish next weekLouis Agassiz: his Life and Correspondence,' edited by his widow.

M. GUILLEMIN'S illustrated work on 'Electri

city and Magnetism' has been translated from the French. Edited by Prof. Silvanus Thompson, this volume will shortly be published by

Messrs. Macmillan & Co.

MR. TWINING's lectures, well known by their title Science made Easy,' have been, at the expense of the Education Department of Japan, translated into Japanese.

PROF. T. McK. HUGHES, of Cambridge, has edited, and the University Press of Cambridge has issued, a series of reports on geological classification and nomenclature. These reports have

been entrusted to specialists; they therefore give the most authentic information, present the latest opinions, and often suggest original views of considerable value. They were intended for the International Geological Congress at Berlin, where they have recently received marked attention.

MR. JOHN MUIRHEAD, to whom electro-telegraphy is much indebted, is dead at the age of seventy-eight years. He was born in Haddingtonshire in 1807, and died at Upper Norwood on September 24th. Mr. Muirhead introduced a battery so portable and practical that it bears his name, and has been the model for many of the most approved forms of batteries in general use.

THE secretary of the Telpherage Company writes to say "that the opening of the Glynde Telpher line is unavoidably postponed."

THE death is announced of M. Robin, the famous Professor of Histology in the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. M. Robin was the chief

founder of the study of histology in France, and a special chair was wisely created for him in 1862, a proceeding which led to repeated attacks upon him by the clerical party.

M. FONVIELLE has introduced a most ingenious form of insulating stem for experiments on statical electricity. He uses a stem entirely or partly hollow. Into this he inserts a platinum spiral. By means of a small bichromate of potash battery this becomes an incandescent lamp, which warms the stem from within and keeps it dry, ensuring the most perfect insula

FINE ARTS

THE VALE OF TEARS.'-DORE'S LAST GREAT PICTURE, completed a few days before he died, NOW ON VIEW at the Doré Gallery, 35, New Rond Street, with Christ leaving the Prætorium,'Christ's Entry into Jerusalem,'The Dream of Pilate's Wife, and his other great Pictures. From Ten to Six Daily.-Admission, ls.

THE PRIVATE COLLECTIONS OF ENGLAND. No. LXXXII.-MR. W. COLTART'S, WOODLEIGH, BIRKENHEAD.

THE next picture in Mr. Coltart's collection which attracted us was Mr. Poynter's severe and vigorous Freyia,' the Scandinavian goddess, a half-length figure crowned with a nimbus. The goddess is driving her golden chariot; a white bear's skin protects her breast against the wintry blast, which even to her is icy. The dark blue of her dress harmonizes with the intense coldness of the distant hills, which are important and significant elements of the landscape, as well as with the dark blue firmament studded with glittering stars, and with the still bluer ocean seen far below the chariot. Her brown locks are blown backwards as she speeds through the air, and her features, though goddess-like, are pale. While this fine example is inspired with the poetry of the subject, its solid, learned, and careful execution is quite admirable. In fact, the student, charmed by the technical merit of the picture, is not unlikely for a time to overlook the nobility of the design, which is all the finer for being undemonstrative.

The

Very near the Poynter at Woodleigh hangs a picture by Poole, which in intention as well as in technique supplies its antithesis. work of the deceased painter attracts the visitor's attention by its unusual size (4 ft. 6 in. by 3 ft. 6 in.) and its extraordinary felicity. It is a large landscape, so fine that it is wonderful that the Academicians neglected to secure it for the late gathering of Pooles at Burlington House, and thus prove that, for once at least, the sentiment often perceptible in the artist's works depended not on the figures he introduced, nor even on the glamour of sensational effects he adopted, but was wholly and spontaneously evoked by loyal study of nature in one of her simplest yet gravest moods. Poole was in a happy vein when he saw this subject, and, seizing its intense expressiveness, delineated it in a manner we can hardly admire too much. It is, in fact, rather a large study from nature than a picture of a dark river flowing swiftly and smoothly-with gleams of tarnished silver, olive, and grey on its surface-between deep hillsides of sombre hues and under an atmosphere which is becoming gloomy, for the pale sunlight fades, though it is not yet obscured and has lost none of its clearness. With vigorous sweepings of his brushes the artist in the deftest manner applied tints which are obviously exact and true. Contrariwise to the technique of Mr. Poynter, there is nothing firm or defined in Poole's work, which nevertheless lacks neither draughtsmanship nor learning.

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peaks that shut them in contrast most effectively with the rapid movements of the clouds above and about them. A fine drawing by Millet of his famous picture of the Angelus' is in this collection.

An admirable romance in colour, possessing all the witchery of his taste for tones and weird beauty, is Mr. E. Burne Jones's Green Summer.' Seven damsels clad in green and an eighth in subdued purple, finely harmonized, are seated in a meadow near a pool reflecting dense masses of foliage that form the background of the figures. The seven damsels listen to the eighth, who reads from a book a legend of the ancient time. One of the ladies, who is crowned with asphodels, caresses a lamb nestling on her knees. Silence, broken only by the reader's voice, pervades the place, and the listeners seem lost in day dreams. picture is signed "E. B. J., 1864," and must be ranked among the painter's best works of its time and class.

The

Another romance, of quite a different sort, painted by Mr. F. Madox Brown, and entitled King René's Honeymoon,' a subject Rossetti affected, hangs near. It is a small picture, but full of imagination and dramatic spirit. The young king and his fair bride sit side by side in a sort of throne set up in a bower, while they discuss the plan of the "Chastlet du Roy René," a diagram of which lies at their feet. A soft golden light flushes the roseate air. René holds a pair of compasses in one hand and with a soft smile abandons himself to the charm of the situation, while he leans towards his spouse and receives her caress. Lightly touching his arm with one hand, she puts the other close about his neck, draws his willing face to her, and plants a kiss on his cheek. Tender passion was never more admirably or ardently delineated than in this beautiful romance. style, no less than the sentiment, the costumes, lighting, and chiaroscuro (a broad, soft, ruddy, nearly shadowless tone pervades the scene), is excellently adapted to the passion of the subject. There is, of course, something mediæval in the technique. We believe more than one version of this design is in existence.

The

The resources of this painter are strikingly illustrated by the next picture we have to mention, one of an entirely different character. It is called The Writing Lesson,' and shows the half-length of a gipsy girl who, having scrawled all sorts of undecipherable words on a paper lying on a desk before her, gnaws a green apple. The whimsicality of the expression is admirably thought out, and rendered with Hogarthian power and singular zest for a caprice which Hogarth would not have attempted. The face, which is in shadow, shows a peculiar pearliness and clear carnations, which assort perfectly with the sharply accentuated green of the apple and the ruddy lips approaching it. The soundness of the drawing and fineness of the solid modelling of the flesh are fitted to charm artistic eyes.

In addition to the above Mr. Coltart possesses the late Mr. M. J. Lawless's original and striking picture-his one fine thing, so far as we know— called A Sick Call,' which was No. 589 at the Academy of 1863. The painter, then aged twentyeight, died in 1864, and left no better work behind him.

It is worthy of admiration for its spontaneous and energetic conception and thoroughly sound and accomplished execution. To an honourable desire to be right was due some excess of precision, bordering on hardness; and the metallic surface, to untechnical eyes, probably mars the first impression of the picture. It is sometimes called The Viaticum,' because it shows a boat traversing a Swiss lake, with a priest seated at the stern, with his staff beside him and his acolytes in attendance, while a weeping woman hides her face. They are going with the Host to render the last office for a sick person. The stalwart and sorrowful rower works with a steady pull, and the boat seems to move

The next paper of this series will be devot to an excellent collection embracing several the best examples of the Liverpool School Davis, R. Tonge, W. Huggins, J. H. Wind W. J. C. Bond, and J. C. Oakes. Besides th are productions of Crome, Collins, Lands H. Dawson, Spencer Stanhope, Poole, W Burton, F. Madox Brown, Mark Anthony, Rossetti. The collection belongs to Mr. All Wood, of Bodlandeb, Conway, High Sher Carnarvonshire.

MINOR EXHIBITIONS.

THE exhibition season begins betimes. about half a dozen small galleries were this open to the public. The most interesting lection is at the Hanover Gallery, New Street. As a considerable proportion of pictures have already passed under our and some of the best of them are by dece masters, and not chefs dœuvre, we need

advise amateurs and artists to visit the ga in order to see again some old friends. L tillon of M. Meissonier is an exception. It sh a team of heavy post-horses of old Fle breed returning by a country road from w on one of them jauntily rides a pestillion, but still gay, and full of professional élan. Meissoniers excel this one in the pred the unflinching firmness, and the exha character of the execution of details, whi infinite. Prodigious as their number is, thep although too firm, does not lack breadth. ing resources and a power of delineati passing the Dutchmen's in exactness hav devoted to this work. All it lacks is fusion of details. At least, so it app eyes of ordinary power. The eyes of sonier are not to be challenged, and he lack of fusion such as Gonzales Coques, and Ver Meer commended. His touc sharp as Schalcken's, his handling mor than Dou's, and it has the precision, but occasional hardness, of Terburg's. The that with these qualities spontaneity and of design have been united in a quite uns manner.―The Return from Fishing of M Perrin, and other pictures by MM. Le Ralli, Roybet, and De Vrient, we ha elsewhere. Works of M. A. Stevens, J. and Courbet call for no particular mentio are characteristic of the respective artist

The small exhibition of the Dudley Art Society does not contain much m a dozen tolerable sketches. Very and slight is the Forecourt, Lyme (N Mr. W. Severn, where the parapet of terrace is dexterously drawn. Much rest of the pretentious picture is the lowest degree. Other drawin by this artist are worthy of his repu The Water-side Study of Mr. Roberts a barge aground on a river beach, may for a neat firm touch and clear colours the Thames (18), by Mr. A. Powell, is De Wintish.-Mr. Medlycott is, as be tunate in several sketches, noteworth

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