19 MARCH 1887, page 17

The Ministry Of Fine Art.*

BALZ AC, in one of his novels, makes a journalist remark that he can write with equal facility for or against any book that he may have to criticise. This does not argue a want......

Books.

THE DUKE OF ARGYLL ON SCOTLAND.* Tins work is not without faults of style and of thought. Occa- sionally we seem to catch "that blessed word 'Mesopotamia in the pulpitrush of......