19 JANUARY 1895, page 19

Gustavus Iii. And His Contemporaries.* There Is A Touch Of

contempt in the description applied by Carlyle to the third Gustavus of Sweden. "A shining sort of man," he called him, mach in the same way as one might describe a paste buckle......

The Cassel Rembrandts.*

THE publisher of the English translation of Michel's Rem- brandt has followed up that enterprise by issuing the portfolio before us, in which seventeen out of the twenty-one......