8 JULY 1865, page 16

British Institution.—the Ancient Masters-

THERE is less than usual to strike the eye in a first sight of this Exhibition. The attractiveness of a picture-gallery depends in the first instance on colour, and in a......

Books.

MR. GROTE'S PLATO.* IT is not surprising that the historian of Greece should have selected the writings of Plato as a subject for special treatment. For, whether those writings......