10 FEBRUARY 1883, Page 24

The new number of the Magazine of Art is only

an average one. There is nothing very remarkable either in the art or the literature of it. The best articles are Mr. Champneys' "The Interior of St. Paul's Cathedral," Mr. Benjamin's account of Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt's house in New York, under the title of "An American Palace ;" and Mr. Harry Barnett's "The Special Artist," though the last is rather too Graphic. The best picture in the number is' Schulz-Briesen's- " In Auld Lang Syne," a very humorous representation of two old women talking gossip and scandal over their tea, and in the company of their cats.