Mr. Robinson, the keeper of the Museum at South Kensington
seu- °ceded Dr. Kinkel in the Course of Art-Instruction Lectures last Mon- day. The subject was Greek pottery—a knowledge of whioh should be an inevitable necessity to every thoroughly educated artist. Specimens twenty centuries old were displayed, and their history clearly and do- finedly told by the lecturer. They were always found in tombs, and there was no change in their colours of black and red. The art with which they were bronzed on the potter's wheel has disappeared. The glaze too is a mystery. A description of the five styles, early, Archaic severe, pure Greek, and decline, with full details of their character, dis- tinctions, and ornaments, concluded Mr. Robinson's address ; sustained, we may say, by a knowledge, and a readiness and facility of imparting it, undoubtedly satisfactory to his attentive auditory.
We markedly call attention to a new arts-journal published in Paris as the Gazette des Beaux Arts, under the able control of M. Charles Blanc, Ancien Directeur des Beaux Arts, which with its excellent illus- trations of pictures, statuary, art-portraits, mosaics, and a well-chosen variety of criticisms and correspondence, will secure a large adhesion of subscribers, on both sides of the Channel. M. Monti furnishes the Lon- don topics.
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