12 MAY 1883, page 20

Mr. John Skelton's New Essays.*

To readers with a delicate literary palate, anything from the pen of Mr. John Skelton, better known to all of us as " Shirley," is of the nature of a Lonne-bouche. It would be......

Italian Art In The National Gallery.* This Is A Valuable

book, but it is not one adapted to the general reader, for the style is dry and wanting in charm ; and besides, he would probably find it rather bewildering reading, from the......