In the Magazine of Art, the edibr grinds on through
the .Academy, distributing praises on all hands which are mutually destructive. Mr. Gosse urges, in the first of a series of articles, the claims of sculpture. Two things, it seems to us, are neces- sary before what can bo called a school of sculpture may be hoped for in England. One is a settled style of architecture, the other a great sculptor. The style of Wren and the genius of Alfred Stevens were a splendid combination, but it fell, perhaps, at too Gothic a moment. It is curious to notice how the sculptor's part in sculpture is the last thing considered, as in the recent discus- sion over Cromwell. Every one seemed to suppose that if Lord Rosebery or the nation decreed a statue, the only difficulties were those of prejudice, cost, site, and so on. The terrible difficulty is not the Irish, but the absence of a monumental sculptor. Mr..
Claude Phillips argues for the attribution to Giorgione of a picture at St. Petersburg hitherto attributed to Titian.
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