6 MAY 1899, page 13

The Unrest In The Transvaal.

[To THE EDITOR OF THY "SPECTATOR."] STE, — The article in the Spectator of April 29th under above title, though summing up admirably the dangers of the present situation in......

Poetry.

LOST VISION. True is the saying, that In Common lives There dies a poet and the man survives. In some he dies hard, and, before he dies,' Keeps in the half-extinguished......

Art.

THE ACADEMY.—I. THE good pictures at the Academy produce about as much effect as would the playing of M. Paderewski supposing his piano to have been placed inside a hollow......