25 MAY 1867, page 13

Art.

THE second in the series of National Portrait Exhibitions, so auspiciously commenced last year, is now open at South Ken- sington. The period illustrated by it lies between 1688......

An English Eclogue.

TIMOTHY. Well, here's the cuckoo come again, after the barley-sowing, The duck-weed white upon the pond, all round the violets blowing, The gorse has got its coat of gold, and......