14 MAY 1887, page 17

Books.

A GREAT AUSTRIAN STATESMAN" Annals. has hardly been fertile in great statesmen, and our heading involves no great praise of Count Benet. But that eminent man's career, admirably......

Art.

THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PAINTERS IN WATER- COLOURS. [PIM NOTICE.] Taa exhibitions of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water- Colours steadily increase in importance; and the......

[we Are Assured That Mr. Halle Is Not Solely Responsible

for the banging of pictures in the Grosvenor Gallery, he acting throughout under the direction of Sir Coats Lindsay. Mr. Halle, moreover, entirely repudiates the epithet......