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Mr. Robinson, The Keeper Of The Museum At South Kensington

seu- °ceded Dr. Kinkel in the Course of Art-Instruction Lectures last Mon- day. The subject was Greek pottery—a knowledge of whioh should be an inevitable necessity to every......

Literary News.

Another historian has passed away. The last arrivals from America record the death of Prescott, not like Hallam, on the extreme verge of human life, but in the full maturity of......

Mr. Doherty' S Sculpture.

No higher duty has the critic than to herald desert, none pleasanter than to invite opportunity to merit, striving, hoping, and enduring to win attention to its identity and......

New Foreign Office.

Mr. Scott writes a manly letter on the subject of his New Foreign Office at Westminster. The notable failure of our public buildings—the introduction of a style almost......

Barg Arts.

EXHIIIITION OF FEMALE ARTISTS. The third Exhibition of Female Artists is exceedingly creditable to the amount of talent and culture among British women. There are no doubt many......

The New York Cathedral, Now In Course Of Erection, Is

twenty feet wider and 30 feet higher than York Minster: the nave is three feet wider and nearly forty feet higher than St. Paul's, Loudon. It will be the handsom- est......