12 MAY 1866, page 16

Art.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. IT is generally as difficult as it is unprofitable to balance the com- parative merits of pictures exhibited at the Academy with such nicety as to decide......

Books.

M. JULES SIMON'S LE TRAVAIL.* IF we could suppose some traveller shipwrecked twenty years ago on a desert island in the South Pacific, or made captive by a wild tribe Of Central......