2 JANUARY 1892, page 25

Art.

DEGAS AND MONTICELLI. I see the dusk, with dudal art, Prick seven stars in air ; You choose to see the hinder part Of what you call a Bear. Mr. Arthur L. Collie and La Societel......

" The Old And The New."

THE wind is wailing through leafless trees, And sweeps bare boughs with his fingers cold, Till they yield with sighs, sad melodies, Mourning the year whose days are told.......

Poetry.

RUSTICUS EXPECTAT. So life, you say, must be a blank, In this old house with crumbling eaves, Set on an idle river's bank, And girt about with leaves. Slowly the spirit moves,......

Hypertrophy Of The Conscience.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." I you allow me to add another illustration or analogy to the physiological one given in the very interesting article in the Spectator of......