16 MARCH 1889, page 15

Poetry.

" TOUJOURS L'AUDACE!" ONCE in our lives we know what men we are : In common hours we live as common men, Our valour not true valour; and a star Shines not more distant than oar......

[to The Editor Of The "spectator."]

copied the following from an Irish newspaper in 1887: —" So long as Ireland was silent under her wrongs, England was deaf to her cries."—I am, Sir, &c.,......

Art.

INSTITUTE OF PAINTERS IN WATER-COLOURS. THE present Institute exhibition differs little from its usual -character, and is perhaps not below the accustomed average. There is a......