20 MARCH 1886, page 15

Art.

HOLMAN HUNT'S PAINTING.* [PRELIMINARY NOTICE.1 IT is peculiarly unfortunate for Mr. Holman Hunt's present reputation that the first collection of his works should be minus three......

Archdeacon Denison And Canon Maccoll.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] MacColl, in his letter to you—Spectator, March 13th— falls into the common error of the reckless controversialist,— the disregard of......

Poetry.

THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE. HE cannot walk, he cannot speak, Nothing he knows of books and men, He is the weakest of the weak, And has not strength to hold a pen ; He has no......