17 MAY 1884, page 16

Poetry.

THE PYRAMIDS. FULL many an embassy bath mortal man Sent to the skies. The glory and the grace Of classic temples, and the Gothic spires, Offerings of beauty, mystic, multiform,......

Art.

ROYAL ACADEMY. [SECOND NOTICE.] IN our first notice we spoke only of the four works which were of such merit as of themselves to render this year's exhibition of special......

The Vote Of Censure.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The shock of "moral defeat" which appears to have re- sulted in London from the Government majority of sixty,—for it is not fair to the......