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Fine Arts.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY: HISTORICAL PICTURES. THE pictures which draw their subjects from poetry or mythology are few. The most striking, without doubt, isMr. Dyce's "Neptune......

Publications Received.

Boons. The Life of Mrs. Godolphin. By John Evelyn, of Wootton, Esq. Now first published, and edited by Samuel Lord Bishop of Oxford, Chancellor of the Most Noble Order of the......

Ranthorpe

IS a novel of so much substance and power as to challenge close criticism. From internal evidence, it is a tentative work—the production of a prac- tised writer trying his hand......