23 DECEMBER 1876, page 13

Poetry.

THE POET IN THE CITY. THE Poet stood in the sombre town, And spake to his heart, and said,- " 0 weary prison, devised by man ! 0 seasonless place, and dead !" His heart was sad,......

" The Life Of Thomas Edward."

THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I think your reviewer, in his notice of Mr. Smiles's " Life of Thomas Edward," hardly does justice to the extraordinary precocity of that......

Art.

INSTITUTE OF PAINTERS IN WATER-COLOURS. Tins year's exhibition is a less satisfactory one than usual, and were it not for the works of the younger painters, would be an almost......