12 FEBRUARY 1887, page 16

Poetry.

" WITH AN AMETHYST." [SUGGESTED BY A PERSIAN PABLE.1 WHITE lie the February snows, By wooing sunbeams softly kissed; And at thy white breast, lady, glows My amethyst. The magic......

Art.

MR. COLLIER ON OIL-PAINTING.* Tills book consists of but one hundred pages, and is divided into twe distinct parts, of which one part is technical and clear, while the second is......