17 MAY 1879, page 14

Poetry.

THE MOURNFUL MINSTREL. ["How gloomy is the poetry of the present day how fall of sighs, and groans, and passionate bewailings it is !"—Mr. Payn'a "Midway Inn," in the Nineteenth......

Art.

ROYAL ACADEMY. [SECOND NOTICE.] Is our first article upon this season's Academy, we spoke of the comparative poorness of the majority of the piotures, especially those which......