23 NOVEMBER 1861, page 19

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ARTILL1 R AND MERLIN.* IT is a little strange that Mr. Tennyson's "Idyls of the King" have never yet been criticized from the historical point of view. His ad- mirers seem to......

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THE ART-CULTURE OF ITALY. THERE nas been, of late years, a natural, and not an unjust, revul- sion of feeling on the subject of Italian art. In the earlier part of the present......