25 AUGUST 1906, page 10

" Art"in The Village.

T RUTHFULNESS compels us to confess that in the ordinary village, art—writ large—differs from mercy in that not only its quality but its quantity likewise are so finely strained......

The Romance Of Excavation.

W RILE the explorers are busy around tombs and rubbish- heaps, happy if they can, like Messrs. Grenfell and Hunt at Oxyrhynchus, recover stray and fragmentary leaves of ancient......