3 MAY 1884, page 17

Art.

LET us get over the first futile but inevitable question as to this year's Academy,—" Is it better or worse than usual ?" —futile, since from the same ingredients, mixed in much......

Books.

THE STORY OF THE COUP D'ETAT.* IT is almost possible to forgive M. Charlemagne de Maupas the part he played as Parisian Prefect of Police during the Coup d'Etat; except on one......