22 MAY 1880, page 18

The Queen Of The Meadow.* Sometimes, As A Visitor To

the Academy toils through the crowded rooms at Burlington House on a hot summer afternoon, his eye—tired by following the long succession of gorgeous person- ages, historical or......

The Village Life.*

WHEN Horace wrote the much-quoted words, which Coningtorr renders by the following couplet,— "But gods, and men, and booksellers agree To place their ban on middling poetry," he......