2 JANUARY 1886, page 24

Art.

SIR JOHN MILLAIS. NOTICE.]* BEFORE we criticise any of the works in this collection in detail, which we hope to do with some minuteness at a later period, let us first express......

Poetry.

CHRISTMAS. CHRIST'S star is bright, and yet our hearts are holden With dim forebodings, ghosts of gathering fear ; It is not as in days of childhood olden, When Christmas seemed......