11 MAY 1861, page 18

Fine Arts.

ROYAL ACADEMY. FIRST NOTICE. Tex great Art festival of the year—the opening of the Royal Academy —an event for which painters, who boast not the addition of the magical R.A. to......

Books.

MR. PAGET AND LORD MACAULAY.* THAT Lord Macaulay's History of England, though a splendid achievement in a purely literary point of view, cannot be implicitly re- lied upon as a......