17 JULY 1886, page 14

Art.

OLD WATER-COLOURS AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTE THE present collection of water-colours of deceased masters of the British school, which is being held in the council-room of the Royal......

English Commerce And English Education.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] think the writer of the article in the Spectator of July 10th on "English Commerce and English Education" takes too low a view of our......

The Marmoset.

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] Sirt,—While I write, a small marmoset monkey—length about six inches—disports himself freely in a sumach-tree near to a sunny wall in our......

Poetry.

Gone just when the fierce strain of battle was done ; When the friends of disunion and discord were routed ; Lost when the cause they had fought for had won. What was their......

Noon.

Fula, summer, and at noon : from a waste bed Convolvulus, musk-mallow, poppies, spread The triumph of the sunshine overhead. Blue on the shimmering ash-trees lies the heat ; It......