15 JANUARY 1881, page 18

A. Fashionable Essayist.*

IT is always a mistake when people place their aims above their capabilities, and forget that others gauge their capabilities by their aims. This happens so frequently, that it......

"the Mystery In Palace Gardens."*

" Nor even the Seatons,' decided Kensington, speaking by the mouth of several Mesdames Grundy, ' not even the Seatons compassed. so complete a fiasco as the Moffatts.'" This is......

Across Asia.* Mom Is An Interesting And Not Entirely...

amuse- ment in vogue among Art students and immature Art critics, which consists in strolling through an unfamiliar gallery or collection of pictures, and endeavouring to assign......