Prof. Bakhuyzen has made a new elaborate determination (the investigation forms a portion of the seventh volume of the Annalen of the Leyden Observatory) of the period of rotation of the planet Mars, the result of which appears to be entitled to great confidence as more accurate than any hitherto published. It amounts to 24h 37m 22 66±0 0132, and is about 0907 greater than the latest made by Kaiser (which agrees closely with that of Schmidt), and as much smaller than that of Mr. Proctor, which was published in 1869. Prof. Bakhuyzen appends a note relating to changes on the surface of Mars since the observations of Schröter and logical maps. No doubt the elder Herschel, and concludes that such have certainly taken place, and tend to prove that portions of the planet are covered by matter in a fluid condition.

At the meeting of the French Academy on the 9th ult., M. Faye announced the completion of the great object-glass which has been made for the Nice Observatory by MM. Henry, and is 0.76 mètre (nearly thirty English inches) in diameter.

Dr. Naumann, late director of the Topographical Department of Japan, is exhibiting at the rooms of the Royal Geographical Society a collection of maps produced under his supervision. These maps are deserving of the highest commendation. They include the first sheets of a general map on a scale of 1:200,000, several maps on half that scale, as well as general hypsographical and geo

The maps are etched on copper and printed in three colours. We cannot help thinking that the appointment of a native director in the place of Dr. Naumann is likely to influence adversely the progress of this valuable work.

Lieut. Greely has been delivering a course of lectures before the members of the Scottish Geographical Society, at Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, and Aberdeen. As to future Arctic work, he

advocates the route of Franz Josef Land as that where most fruitful geographical work can be done.

the west

The Revue de Géographie publishes an essay, by M. P. H. Antichan, entitled 'Le Jardin des Hesperides, in which the author maintains that the garden of the Hesperides, which Melkarth, the Hercules, visited, must be looked for on Tyrian coast of Africa, and that he went there not in search of golden apples, but of golden nuggets. Hesperia proper he identifies with the Bissagos islands, and he looks upon the modern Pull or Fellata as the representatives of the ancient Hesperides. The Revue publishes likewise the first of a series of articles by M. Léon Deschamps on 'Colonial Questions in France in the Time of Richelieu and Mazarin.' Richelieu is described as the "veritable initiator of a French colonial policy."

Miller, Capt. A. Moore, Surgeon-Major W. H. Briggs,
Lieut. J. Grant Bickford, Lieut. S. S. Rogozinski,
Ven. Arch. H. Johnston, Rev. S. D. Bhabha, Rev. A.
MacKintosh, Rev. A. D. Sylvester, Rev. J. Henry,
Dr. T. F. Bride, Dr. W. L. Powell, Messrs. W. Allan,
J. A. Alsop, S. C. Bell, T. Francis Bevan, A. H. Boyd,
J. F. Brigstocke, M. Bugle, A. B. Buttrick, J. Crans-
toun, D. H. Fisher, H. Graham, T. Rannie Grant,
T. C. Jack, H. B. James, A. W. Jardine, T. H. Joyce,
W. M. Kerr, W. R. Kettle, S. L. Keymer, C. Lea,
D. McIntosh, P. F. W. Mapp, H. G. Neville, J.
Odgers, F. G. Ogilvie, J. Panton, A. W. Parvin, H. J.
Perkins, G. W. Read, W. J. Ryder, W. Shawe, J. M.
Shepherd, A. Simpson, H. G. Smith, J. D. Smithe,
G. Stewart, jun., E. F. im Thurn, J. B. Thurston,
C. J. Valentine, C. M. Woodford, G. P. Wright, and
A. H. F. Young.-The paper read was 'A Journey
overland from Cape Town across the Zambesi to
Lake Nyassa,' by Mr. W. M. Kerr.

The "Universities' Mission" has suffered heavy losses by fire, which almost simultaneously broke out at Mbweni, Magila, and Matope, near the Nyassa. The fire at the last place will delaying to the family Oribatida. This he has discovered the launching of the steamer, which has been sent out at an expenditure of 5,000l. Considering the excellent geographical work which has been done by several members of this mission, geographers may fairly be called upon to contribute towards making good these losses.

'Madagascar et l'Ile de la Réunion' (Paris, Dépôt de la Guerre) is made up of five sheets of Capt. Régnauld de Lannoy de Bissy's map of Africa, on a scale of 1:2,000,000. It is at present the largest and most accurate map of Madagascar extant.

SOCIETIES.

ROYAL.-Nov. 26-The President in the chair.The list of officers and Council nominated for election was read.-Dr. J. E. T. Aitchison (elected 1883) was admitted into the Society. The following papers were read: Results deduced from the Measures of Terrestrial Magnetic Force in the Horizontal Plane at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1841 to 1876,' by Sir G. B. Airy, -'Studies of Disinfectants by New Methods,' by Mr. A. W. Blyth,-'On the Fertilized Ovum and Formation of the Layers of the South African Peripatus,' by Mr. A. Sedgwick,- On the Formation of the Mesoblast and the Persistence of the Blastopore in the Lamprey,' by Mr. A. E. Shipley, Researches on Myshæmatin and the Histshæmatins,' by Dr. C. A. MacMunn,-and 'On the Geometrical Construction of the Cell of the Honey Bee,' by Prof. H. Hennessy.

Nov. 30.-Anniversary Meeting.-Prof. Huxley, President, in the chair.-The auditors of the Treasurer's accounts presented their report.-The Secretary read the list of Fellows deceased and Fellows elected since the last anniversary.-The anniversary address was delivered by the President (Prof. Huxley), and the same was ordered to be printed. The medals were presented as follows: The Copley Medal to Prof. Kekulé, of Bonn (per the Foreign Secretary); Royal Medals to Prof. Hughes and Prof. E. Ray Lankester; and the Davy Medal to Prof. Stas, of Brussels (per the Belgian Minister).-The officers and Council for the ensuing session were elected as follows: President, Prof. G. G. Stokes; Treasurer, Dr. J. Evans; Secretaries, Prof. M. Foster and Lord Rayleigh; Foreign Secretary, Prof. A. W. Williamson; Other Members of the Council, Prof. R. B. Clifton, Prof. J. Dewar, Prof. W. H. Flower, Dr. A. Geikie, Sir J. D. Hooker, Prof. T. H. Huxley, Admiral Sir A. Cooper Key, J. Norman Lockyer, Prof. H. N. Moseley, Prof. B. Price, Rev. Prof. Pritchard, Dr. W. J. Russell, Prof. J. S. B. Sanderson, Prof. A. Schuster, Lieut.-General R. Strachey, and General J. T. Walker.

SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.-Nov. 26.-The President in the chair.-Mr. Jennings exhibited, through Mr.Franks, a medieval chrismatory found at Cologne, trefoil in form and with three receptacles, lettered inside the lid co and s, the last letter being formed of a dragon-headed serpent and reversed.-Mr. J. H. Middleton exhibited a ciotola from a thirteenth century campanile at Rome, an early example of tin enamel. Mr. Middleton also communicated a paper, illustrated by plans, sections, and rubbings, on the newly discovered Saxon church at Deerhurst, Gloucestershire. - Mr. E. Green exhibited, and communicated a paper on, the diptych of the Chevalier Philip Hinckaert, Chastelain de Ter Veuren in Brabant, 1460.

GEOGRAPHICAL.-Nov. 30.-The Marquis of Lorne, President, in the chair.-The following gentlemen were elected Fellows: Sir W. A. Fraser, Capt. A. J.

LINNEAN.-Nov. 19.-Prof. Moseley in the chair.
-Mr. A. D. Michael exhibited and described the
nymphal stage of Tegeocranus cepheiformis, belong
in England and has succeeded in tracing its entire
life history. Mr. C. Stewart demonstrated under the
microscope the stridulating apparatus of a species of
Sphærotherium differing in some respects from
that described by Mr. Bourne (infra).-Dr. J. Murie
exhibited and made remarks on the caudal end of
the spine of a haddock with an arched deformity re-
calling what is recorded of the so-called humpbacked
cod (Morrhua macrocephala).-Mr. G. J. Fookes
called attention to some twin apples of teratological
interest. They were grown at Shepherd's Bush upon
a tree eighty years old, which last year was nearly
barren, but this year produced abundantly, many of
the fruits being good examples of syncarpy.-Prof.
P. M. Duncan read a paper On the Perignathic
Girdle of the Echinoidea.' He maintained that as
the structures which give attachment to the muscles
that protrude and retract the jaws of the Echinoidea
(which are parts of the test surrounding the peri-
stome within) are not homologous in all the families
of the group, therefore it is inadvisable to retain the
old name of "auricles." He suggests the substitution
of the term "perignathic girdle." The girdle consists
of "processes" usually united above (though occa-
sionally disconnected), and of "ridges" which con-
nect the processes on the side remote from the am-
bulacra. The ridges are modifications of the inter-
radial plates, the processes developments from the
ambulacral plates. In the Cidarida the muscular
attachments are all on disconnected ridges, and
there are no processes. In the Temnopleuridæ,
Echinidæ, Echinometridæ, and Diadematidæ the
retractor muscles are attached to
"processes,"
which are growths of the poriferous portions of the
ambulacral plates; and the protractor muscles and
ligament of the radiales are attached to the ridge
which is developed on the interradial plates, and is
united by suture to the base of the "process." In
the Clypeastride there are disconnected growths
which carry the jaws and have slight muscular
attachments. In Clypeaster there are ten processes,
each arising from an ambulacral plate; and there
are no interradial structures like ridges. In Laga-
num there are five growths, each arising from a first
interradial plate; hence these are the homologues of
ridges. The Clypeastrida may thus be divided into
two groups on account of the presence of processes
in one, and of the homologues of ridges in the other.
-Prof. Moseley communicated a paper On the
Anatomy of Sphærotherium,' by Mr. G. C. Bourne.
The author mentioned that while the general ex-
terior features and specific distinctions of the genus
had been amply discussed, the internal structures
had hitherto received scant attention. Among other
anatomical peculiarities he describes a well-defined
stridulating organ in the male. This consists of a
prominent bolster-shaped swelling on the postero-
external edge of the second joint of the second pair
of copulatory appendages. The swelling occupies
the entire margin of the joint, and shows a number
of chitinous cross ridges and furrows. On the oppo-
site interior surface of the last tergite are chitinous
points. The former rasp-like organ of the second
accessory appendages when rubbed rapidly against
the latter produces a shrill note resembling that
emitted by the house cricket. A true auditory organ
exists in the antennary fossa beneath the eye. The
tracheal system is unlike that of the majority of the
Diplopoda, rather resembling that of Chilopoda and
Insecta, though differing in the branched spiral
filament not taking origin directly from the stigmata
themselves. It appears that the trachea of Sphæro-
therium are a transition from those of the Julus
type to those of the Scolopendra type. It would
thus seem that the character of the trachea, the
curved alimentary tract, the numerous chitinous
pieces composing each segment, and the presence of
family Glomerida (to which Sphærotherium belongs)
a special hearing organ on the head mark off the

poda.-There followed a paper, Contribution to South African Botany: Orchidea,' Part II, by H. Bolus, with additional notes by Mr. N. E. E

F. Galton, President, in the chair. The election of ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.-Nor. 24-Mr. Mr. W. S. Karr, Mr. E. Lawrence, Dr. R. Mut Dr. W. Summerhays was announced.-Mr. CH Read exhibited a number of ethnological objects from Tierra del Fuego.-The President exhibited, on beha of Dr. J. E. Billings (U.S.A.), a collection of posite photographs of skulls, referring respectively to Sandwich Islanders, ancient Californians Ar pahoe Indians, and Witchitaw Indians-Dr. E. B, Tylor exhibited some Australian tundus or bell roarers.-Mr. J. T. Bent read a paper 'On Ink Greek Customs.' He exhibited a collection of Gre dresses, drapery, and other objects from the isht referred to in the paper.-Mr. J. W. Crombie real a paper On the Game of Hop-Scotch, in which be traced the origin of the game to a period anteri to the introduction of Christianity, and showed th in early Christian times children had some d idea of representing in this game the progress the soul through the future world, and that the division of the figure into seven courts was on account of the belief in seven heavens.-Dr. E. Tylor gave a résumé of a paper by Mr. A. W. Eon.. 'On the Migrations of the Kurnai Ancestors (Gip land).'

SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY.-Dec. 1Dr. S. Birch, President, in the chair.-Mr. J. Jace read a paper entitled 'Are there Totem-Clans in the Old Testament?'

ARISTOTELIAN.-Nov. 30.-Mr. S. H. Hodree President, in the chair.-A paper was read a Plato's "Phædo," by Mr. D. G. Ritchie.

EDUCATION. Nov. 23. - Canon Daniel in the chair. A paper was read by Mr. H. C. Bower On the Training of the Faculty of Conception. M Bowen's object was to show how ordinary school subjects might be used not only to impart informa tion, but also to exercise this faculty. He ran quickly over the main points in conception, the nature of growth, &c., concluding with a few general hints a the supplying of material for, and the kind of guid ance to be given during, the exercise of this faculty. Conception, he said, was usually divided into parison, abstraction, generalization, but for school work it would be better, he thought, to substitute classification for the last named, inasatch as generalizing was always a dangerous matter, espe cially for those whose knowledge was limited and whose facts for the most part had been insufficiently tested. Mr. Bowen then sketched specimen lessons on lines and rectilineal figures, grammar, the classi fication of plants, elementary dynamics, the life of plants, meanings of words, general notions a courage, duty, &c., terms of history.-A short d cussion followed, and it was decided that a spec meeting should be called to discuss the somewhat novel problems put forward by Mr. Bowen as as the members had had an opportunity of studying them in print.

MON.

TUES.

WED.

Mr. J. Hassell.

Society of Arts, 8.-The Microscope,' Lecture III., Mr. J. Mața” jun. (Cantor Lecture).

Surveyors Institution, 8.-The Cost of Producties and the

Horticultural. Fruit and Floral Committees, 11; Seit
Committee, 1; Ordinary Meeting, 3.

Value received for our various Farm Crops, Mr. A. D. W

Colonial Institute The Material Progress of New South
Wales.' Mr. E Combes.

Anthropological Institute. 8.-Exhibition of Portraits of
cans, Mr. H H Johnston; Exhibition of Photographs of Nort
American Indians, Mr. W. S Karr; The Nicobar Isla
with Special Reference to the Inland Tribe of Great Nicobar
Civil Engineers, 8.- Discussion on High-Speed Motors' and

Mr. E. H Man.

Continuous-current Dynamo-Electric Machines and the

Engines.'

Society of Arts, 8.-The Loadlines of Ships, Prof. F. Elgar

THURS. Royal, 4).

FRI.

SAT.

London Institution, 7.-The Musical Dramas of Wagner, I

Mr. C. Armbruster.

Telegraph Engineers, 8-Annual Meeting: Method of elm ing the Effects of Earth and Polarization Currents in Fac Testing.' Mr. W. J. Murphy; Method of localizing & Fascin a Cable by Tests from One End Only, Mr. H. Kingd Mathematical 8.- On the Numerical Solution of Cube Ea tions,' Mr. G. Heppel; A Theorem in Plane Kinemation N J. J. Walker; Note on the Induction of Electric Comme an Infinite Plane Current Sheet which is rotating in a Field Antiquaries, 8 Manor of Aylesbury,' Mr. J. Parker. New Shakspere 8-The Prose in Shakspero's Plays, the Rules for its Use and the Help it gives in understanding the Play

Magnetic Force,' Mr. A. B. Basset.

very sharply from the other families of the Diplo- mediately a work on the elements of thermal MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. will publish im

emistry by Mr. M. M. Pattison Muir, Fellowing into the field of original research. As-
Prælector of Gonville and Caius College, suming this to be the plan proposed, the
mbridge, assisted by Mr. D. M. Wilson. It is
character of the publication will be materially
cended to present a connected account of the
enhanced if writers of the standing and
ethods and results of the most important re-
arches made in the subject. It will be divided position of M. Müntz undertake the exposi-
tion of the separate biographies. At the
to two parts, the first devoted to the statement
same time it is to be hoped that the popu-
d consideration of the various branches of
larization of existing materials will not
ermal chemistry, the second comprising most
E the data on which the science is built.
draw away the author of 'Les Arts à la Cour
fied tables of these data are given in appendices. des Papes' from the work in which he first
MR. H. B. WOODWARD is preparing a new edi- achieved reputation. In the case of Dona-
on of his 'Geology of England and Wales,' tello the subject is so interesting there is
hich was reviewed in the Athenæum some
little need of rhetoric to stimulate the atten-
ine years ago. A separate chapter will be tion of the reader, and therefore the some-
evoted to the origin of the scenery, and great what declamatory preface was, perhaps, a
iditions have been made to the chapter on water
work of supererogation, and we should as-
suredly have passed it by without remark

had it not contained the singular announce-
ment that the first appreciation of Donatello's
genius was not due to historians or students
of art, but to certain "collectionneurs
émérites,"
," who in recent times have dis-
covered the splendid qualities of the master,
have rehabilitated him, as M. Müntz insists
on proclaiming. If, however, the learned
author will turn to the lectures of Flaxman,
delivered at the commencement of the pre-
sent century, and before any of the "collec-
tionneurs émérites were born, he will find
precisely the same estimate of the great
Florentine that he himself has arrived at,
and certainly in England since Flaxman's
time the appreciation of Donatello has been
warm and generous.

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Bode's handsome volume, published by nature, and the tints of the costume and back-
M. Rothschild. But the rest of the illus-ground are, apart from their brilliancy, crude
and insincerely depicted.-We turn with great
trations are equally unsatisfactory, all, we
believe, having appeared in other publica- pleasure to Mr. Wallis's superb exercise of subtle,
rich, various, and powerful coloration called
tions. Moreover, they are drawings, often
In the Bazaar, Smyrna (24), a lady bargaining
far from artistic, reproduced by a process
with a merchant seated in his stall. A sump-
which gives a dry and scratchy result. If tuous garment of prophet green is brought in
any "process is desirable for book illus- contact with a deep rose-coloured dress held
trations, surely, in the case of sculpture, by the dealer. The picture is so deep toned and
the photographs should be taken directly splendidly harmonious that it illuminates the
from the objects themselves.
place it hangs in, and might set a standard for
tonality and coloration for the gallery. We
cannot admire the drawing of the figures, which
is decidedly loose.

THE SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS.
WINTER EXHIBITION.

THIS gathering has better claims than usual to the title of an exhibition of sketches and studies; of finished and ambitious examples there are, it seems to us, fewer than in most recent winters. The visitor always expects to find a considerable proportion of charming works, and he will not be disappointed, but, generally speaking, the collection is not equal to the reputation of the Society. This is partly accounted for by the absence of several of the best artists, such as Mr. Alma Tadema, Mr. G. P. Boyce, Mr. Holman Hunt, Mr. F. Powell, and Mr. Whaite. Several draughtsmen are not quite up to their mark this year, either in the number or the quality of their contributions, and the Society suffers accordingly. For example, the brothers Fripp send only one drawing each, and Mr. A. W. Hunt, who sends two, has done better. On the other hand, Mrs. Allingham and Miss Phillott are well represented. The Society has observed a good custom in admitting a numerous group of examples, No. 252 to No. 276, by the late Mrs. Lofthouse. Other noteworthy contributors are Mr. S. Hodson, Mr. H. Marshall, Mr. H. Wallis, Mr. B. Foster -to whose larger drawing the place of honour has been conceded-Mr. M. Hale, Mr. A. Goodwin, Mr. Heywood Hardy, Mr. E. Walker, Mr. E. J. Poynter, Mr. A. Moore, Mr. J. Burr, and Mr. H. S. Marks.

Taking the best things in their order, and grouping each contributor's productions, we notice first the Trèves (No. 2) of Mr. Hodson, a sketch of the public square with the town hall, neat, bright, and firmly touched, and notable for its soft colouring and greys. Limburg (289) is equally meritorious and more picturesque. Mr. C. Rigby's Birks Bridge, Seathwaite (3), is a well-considered study, with abundance of warm colour. The artist is improving, as An Upper Reach of the Duddon (78) and The Valley of the Esk (103) show; but his Flush of Sunset (286) is rather too florid. Mr. S. P. Jackson's drawings are numerous,

but unusually well considered. An Evening Breeze from the Sea (8) is remarkable for the pearly blueness of the waves and increased care in cliff drawing, while, except in the foreground, it is free from the painter's besetting woolliness of texture. The Restless Atlantic (19) shows, under a well studied grey sky, surges capitally delineated. A Second Hay Crop on the Banks of the Thames (104) has sentiment and character unusual in this artist, but it is a little painty. With these we may recommend A Cornish Headland (237), the name of which, like Mr. Jackson, we shall forbear to give. We observe with satisfaction

the growing reticence of artists in naming their

pictures of beautiful places they do not wish to see degraded by misuse.

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Henley (25) is Mr. W. Field's pretty, but somewhat flat contribution. May the Thames (32), by Mr. B. Bradley, cows in bright greyish sunlight, is rather weak in tone and chalky in colour, but delicately and firmly drawn. Friends (305), a group of big white horses and their riders under the trees in an alley near the Place de la Concorde, is a brilliant, soft study of pure light, with excellent draughtsmanship and colour. The visitor should look at Scotch Sheep and Lamb (343), by the same artist. —Mr. E. Walker's Autumn Morning (44) depicts with solidity, breadth, and wealth of colour Sussex downs clad with trees, a calm river, and rich meadows. Golden Autumn (90); Warkworth Castle (141), dreamlike in its softened tones and choiceness of colouring; A Silver Stream (232); and A Barley Field (242), are all by the

same artist.

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A Study (47), by Mr. E. K. Johnson, deserves
its title better than many of its neighbours. It
has a well-considered design. Huffed (182) is
very neatly executed and spirited. Drying
Rose Leaves (188) deserves similar praise, and,
like the other two, shows considerable technical
improvement on the part of the artist.
The Lough at Rest (48), by Mr. M. Hale, repre-
sents with true sentiment and much beauty air
laden with vapour, a grey sunset, and sub-tints
of green.
Mr. Albert Goodwin paints many
natural effects and romantic themes with great
charm and ample resources. We are delighted
with his Streatley (54), where calm summer air
is saturated with tender vapours and sun-
light. It is a white calm on land, tenderly
depicted. The sentiment of Requiem (174) can-
not be denied. It gives with rare brilliancy the
afterglow on a wide sandy and purple shore,
a still brilliant silvery sky, and glittering sea.
The masses of clouds, some shaped like
warriors rushing into battle, some like towers,
and some like huge birds, have, as we have
Shakspeare's authority for knowing, their
source in nature, but their ill-composed forms
confuse this picture and do not add to its
grace. We may recommend Lincoln (187), and
Minehead (189) is one of the most careful, bril-
liant, and scholarly drawings in this exhibi-
tion. Admirably sunny and clear, it gives,
though there is lack of repose in the composition,
the air, sea, and shore to perfection. The
Fourth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor (338) re-
presents a Devonshire shore and rocks in full
sunlight, but not the East nor the sailor. It is
a vigorous and full-toned picture of nature,
spoiled by the incongruities of the figure and
the title. Abingdon (371) will be recognized for

to pervade the scene. The drawing is valuable for its harmonies of colour and tone, and is full of sentiment.-In Startled (81), by Mr. Heywood Hardy, we have a fine landscape and fner figures of horses galloping furiously from the

track of a train. The movements of the horses are excellently given, but their bodies are very long.-In Mr. Birket Foster's Highe Scene near Dalmally (88), a grand view of a torrent, hills, and clouds, the shadows are black, and the illumination is somewhat greenish, but the drawing is broad and effective, and the hill-sides are well modelled. —A contrast with the last in subject, sentiment, and treatment is furnished by the View from the Arco di Parma in Rome (101), which has the charm of golden light illuminating a vista of the Tiber, its one bank lined with white buildings, and on the other bank rich foliage and herbage. A beautiful and homogeneous treatment distinguishes this work of Mr. A. Glennie, whose View of the Castle at Tersatto (91) deserves much attention.-By Mr. W. Duncan we have a clever drawing called A Muchie Wallee of Bombay (114), à spirited whole-length figure of a fish-woman standing in an easy attitude and holding a basket. Before Columbus (372) is an ingenious design of Indian parents watching their gleesome babe afloat on a leaf of Victoria RegiaMr. G. H. Andrews's Riverside, East Greenrich (115), is a good example of his best work.

A sketch of a shaw in spring sunlight, by Mr W. Pilsbury, is bright and delicate, and caled "Down where the bluebells grow" (117).—Mr. C. Gregory has before now painted old buildings with delightful power and aptitude. In Quim perlé (127) is a bright and solid picture of ancient houses with slate fronts and a store church in sunlight.-In The Conchologists (131) of Mr. H. G. Glindoni a number of old gentlemen in eighteenth century costume are assembled on a beach in sunlight. The rocks are well painted, but the sea and sky are rather painty. The attempt to be humorous is not successful, though one or two of the faces and the stiff movements of some of the figures are commendable in no mean degree. The composition is scattered and awkward.-Mr. T. J. Watson's Riverside, Autumn (135), is a little hackneyed; the mossy rocks have done duty so often that, however cleverly painted, we shall not care to see them again. It is a woodland stream, with boulders to order.-At Rye (136), by Mr. C. Gregory, is powerful, but we have seen the like before, and it lacks repose of colour and illumination.—Mr. H. Marshall, having quitted London smoke and fog, has found at Whitby a, to him, new field for his rare skill and just sense of breadth of effect and wealth of tone and colour. Accordingly The Quayside (140) is admirably pictorial and true. -We welcome heartily Mr. A. D. Fripp's excursion into new realms of tone and colour, combined with dream-like tenderness and repose, as shown in Lee, and Morthoe Point (146),

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Quite the opposite of this massive, glowing landscape is to be found in the sculpturesque solidity, blackish shadows, defined draughts. manship, and learned art of Mr. Poynter's fist Ponds, an Autumn Study (159). The "study represents a shallow and swarded glade, with a vista of a dark pool and masses of foliage seen its truth and breadth, and ought to be prized in the gloom of a lowering sky. The student Iwealth of colouring, vraisemblance, and deli- Study for a Classic Figure (323) and Study of Head (325), which are worthy of an old master of high degree. The bravura and hurried Sands (75) gives with excellent tonality and movements, the melodrama, and the dashing on its way to the sea, a pallid blue sky distinguish Sir John Gilbert's groups of horsesends No. 169, Warkworth, where white towers nique of Mr. Poynter.—The Door of ridge, the towers of a fortress. Mr. Hunt also thetical to the deliberate and exhaustive techon a height are bright with the last rays of the robe (172), an elegant, quasi-Greek damsel, though rough and superficial it is may be detected by the hill are softly flushed, the river is growing prove that Mr. A. Moore has shaken off those sun, while the red buildings of the village below graceful, careful, and marked by taste, does not

Mr. E. A. Goodall's At Rotterdam (16) gives broadly the glow of evening on a calm canal.

Off Dort (192) is Cuyp-like in its breadth and

serenity, and has much warmth. The Interior of the Mosque of Mesdada (360) is very good.Hassan Ali (17), a sketch of a head, showing a vigorous contrast of colours, the greater part of which are purely conventional, illustrates at its best the artificial art of Mr. C. Haag. How

the least expert.

The black flesh is unlike

cacy, but somewhat less solid, are the draw-
ings sent by Mr. A. W. Hunt.

Warkworth

dashed with greenish grey, and, on a distant

purple and grey, and a sense of repose seems

men passing The Ford (163)

are

curiously anti

Ward

mannerisms which seem to be the effect either

extreme

ly limited resources or of indolence. is Cartoons (171), a group of mannered figures graceful nonentities, should be noticed. The udy Afloat (184), by Mr. H. Moore, a seaece of blue waves in wild unrest, had, we think, etter have been kept at home although interestg and accomplished.

There is an irresistible charm about Mrs. llingham's Sandown Sands (316), a brilliant Ed fresh picture of children at play on the ore in sunlight, and we may call attention to e same artist's Dolly (336) and Dora (355), id her Last Leaves (304), as well as to Miss hillott's Young Bacchante (298), a pretty modern oung lady's head, innocent of the god; Mr. urr's old man at a window, called A Radical 295); Mr. T. J. Watson's Sketch (306), which minds us of F. O. Finch; Mr. G. Fripp's sober id broad picture of farm buildings and trees, imed Evening (309); and Mr. Marks's scholarly, it not particularly interesting The Lady and e Cranes (345).

Fine-Art Gossip.

THE Royal Academicians have bought from Ir. Hogarth the well-known large picture of a rawing school, probably that of the St. Martin's ane Academy, attributed to Hogarth, and reresenting a nude model seated on a pedestal n our left, with one arm raised, while a number f students are grouped on our right and in the ackground. A very interesting painting indeed, ; is not, we think, by Hogarth.

THE drawing called 'By Severn Side,' which e last week mentioned among works in Mr. 'oynter's hands, is not the same as either of the wo in one frame (No. 348) bearing the above ame, and now in the gallery of the Waterolour Society. The other By Severn Side larger than either of those in Pall Mall.

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the MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD, has done a pleasant and creditable thing in electing the surveyor of St. Paul's to an honorary fellowship Sof the society. Although Mr. Penrose is dissinguished by his studies in classical architecture das well as by his office, his name does not occur en 'Men of the Time.'

THE forthcoming quarterly part, completing the forty-first volume, of the Journal of the British Archæological Association will contain, among others, the following papers :-'Celtic Stone-work, with an exhaustive List of Stones sculptured with Interlaced Ornamentation in England,' by Mr. J. Romilly Allen and the Rev. G. F. Browne; 'Rhôs-Crowther Church, Pembroke hire,' by the Rev. C. H. Scott, Rector; Me Architectural History of Dore Abbey,' by Mr. T Blashill; Brambletye House, Sussex,' by M. C. H. Compton; 'The Baths of Aqua Solis, by Mr. T. Morgan; 'Engraved Babylonia and Assyrian Cylinder Seals in the British Museum,' by Mr. Theo. G. Pinches; and Notes on the Inscription of the Carew Cross, Pembrokeshire,' by Mr. W. de Gray Birch

Ox Thursday next, the 10th inst., the anniversary of the Royal Academy, at 8 P.M., prizes will be distributed to the Students who

have successfully competed in the following
classes: Painting and Drawing, a Gold Medal
and Travelling Studentship of 2001., tenable for
one year, for an historical painting of "
a Scene
from 'Hamlet'"; the Turner Gold Medal and
501. Scholarship for one year for a landscape of
The Mountain of Clouds,' as shown by the
Magician to Hassan in the Story of Hassan of
El Bosrah, Arabian Nights' (Lane), chap. xxv.;
the Creswick Prize, 30l., for a landscape;
First and Second Silver Medals for paintings
from the life; the like for copies of an oil paint-
ing; a Medal and 251. for a cartoon of a draped
figure; medals and money for a design in mono-
chrome for a figure picture, for a design for
mural decoration, for a set of three drawings of

a figure from the life, for a drawing of a head
from the life, for a drawing of a statue or group
from the antique, and for a perspective drawing
in outline. Sculpture: A Gold Medal and
Travelling Studentship, as above, for a composi-
tion of 'Cain the Outcast'; a First Prize of 50l.
and a Second Prize of 201. for a set of two
models of a figure from the life; and medals and
money for a model of a design in the round,
done in a limited period of time, for designs for
two sides of a medal, and for a model of a statue
or group done in the Antique School. Archi-
tecture: A Gold Medal and Travelling Student-
ship, as above, for a design in architecture;

First and Second Silver Medals for a set of

architectural drawings of the North Porch of
St. Paul's Cathedral, for a set of architectural
designs made in a limited time, and for a set of
drawings of an architectural design. These
prizes have been offered; it does not follow that
they will all be awarded. The offers of a Silver
Medal for a copy of a landscape, of First and
Second Silver Medals for a drawing of a figure
from the life, and of First and Second Silver
Medals for drawings of a statue or group have

been cancelled. The Gold Medal and 25l. for a
line engraving of a drawing of a figure from the
life and a Silver Medal for a perspective drawing
in outline have attracted no competitors.

In the Fine-Art Society's gallery may be seen
'Sketches and Pictures of Life and Work in
Bavaria's Alps,' by Mr. H. Herkomer, a bright,
but somewhat coarse, and demonstrative group of
fifty-one examples of domestic, rural, and labour-
ing subjects, as indicated by the title. There is
no lack of energy or characterization in most
of these productions. They are curiously at
variance with each other: in one a face is a type
of intense pathos and ardent vitality and of an
accomplished, if facile method of firm draughts-
manship, which leaves little to be desired
except high refinement, which would, perhaps,
be superfluous in such cases, and choice finish;
in another the grossest disproportions of limbs,
extremities, and head occur; in a third the
painter combines crude modelling and attenuated
knowledge with a singularly happy grasp of the
surface, colour, contours, and structure of objects
of rare difficulty. At every turn elements,
mostly ugly and audacious, are encountered, to

the confusion of the student, who does not care
to be treated in the spirit their presence indicates.

MESSRS. SOTHERAN & Co. are about to pub-
lish the first part of a work on Bartolozzi, con-
sisting of one hundred examples of engravings
selected from rare impressions in the Depart-
ment of Prints and Drawings of the British
Museum, reproduced by the autotype process,
and accompanied with descriptive and bio-
graphical annotations. Mr. Louis Fagan will
contribute a brief memoir of Bartoloz The
work will be completed in four parts, each con-
taining twenty-five plates.

THE meetings of the Graphic Society com-
November, as before.
mence this year on the 9th inst., instead of in

SIR COUTTS LINDSAY, with the particular sanc-
tion of Sir John Millais, is very anxious to
obtain for the forthcoming exhibition of Sir

John's works at the Grosvenor Gallery a loan
of the early example called 'Ferdinand lured
by Ariel,' which, as the property of Mr. C. J. H.
Allen, was exhibited by the Fine Art Society in
1881. A clue to Mr. Allen's address and the
whereabouts of the picture having been acci-
dentally lost, the authorities at the Grosvenor
Gallery, New Bond Street, will be thankful to
Mr. Allen, or the present owner of the picture,
if he will favour them with a communication.

Ferdinand' is particularly desired not only
on account of its intrinsic merits, but as a link
in the sequence of the artist's works not to be
supplied by any other example.

THE new gallery for diploma pictures at the
Royal Academy will shortly be opened to the

public, in the same manner as the present
gallery is now opened, gratis and daily.
A FRENCH amateur has been at the pains to
demonstrate his opinion that the portrait by
Van Dyck in the Louvre which bears the name
of Charles I. does not really represent that
monarch.

MR. G. C. WILLIAMSON Writes from Dunstan

beorh, Guildford :

"I am preparing for the press a new and revised edition of Boyne's great work on the Seventeenth Century Tokens of Great Britain and Ireland,' which will contain many hundreds of additions and a large quantity of notes on issues and issuers, and may I, by your aid, solicit assistance from any collectors ing relics of the seventeenth century? I shall be of tokens or persons who may possess such interestvery grateful for descriptions of any tokens, especially of those differing in the smallest way from Boyne, or of new tokens and varieties found since that book was issued. I shall also be most thankful for any little bits of county topography relative to tokens or their issuers, and to have the kindly assistance of any persons who have leisure and would be good enough to search local corporation records and parish registers for such notes. Most gladly will I fully recognize every aid, however small, in the forthcoming work, and more especially in the counties in the north and south of England, and in Ireland most grateful shall I be for all and every aid and assistance. Many coin collectors have some of these tiny tokens, perhaps, unnoticed in their cabinets, and would very greatly oblige by sending me descriptions or rubbings of them.'

THE Building News says that the Royal Institution at Manchester has been illuminated by electricity, and our contemporary adds that this is the first instance of the kind in the United Kingdom. We doubt the latter statement. Our contemporary has forgotten the Bethnal Green Museum, &c.

A MEDAL is to be struck to commemorate the

completion of the new Hôtel de Ville, Paris. It building; on the reverse, the old building in will probably represent, on the obverse, the new flames. M. Chaplain will be the medalist.

THE candidates to succeed M. E. Perrin in the Académie des Beaux-Arts are MM. Gérôme, Guillaume, Garnier, Chaplain, and Ambroise Thomas, and the Duc d'Aumale.

THE authorities of the Louvre and l'État have assigned a room in the museum to M. Braun, of Dornach, in order that he may show and sell there the photographs he has taken from works of art in the national collection. This room has been opened with a visit from M. Grévy and the Minister of Public Instruction.

THE WEEK.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-Saturday Concerts.

ST. JAMES'S HALL -Popular Concerts. Novello's Oratorio
Concerts: Mors et Vita.'

LAST Saturday's concert at the Crystal
Palace was rendered especially interesting
by the revival, probably for the first time
within the memory of any one living, of