24 MAY 1890, page 16

Art.

THE NEW GALLERY. THE exhibition at the New Gallery this year has no distinc- tive character. Mr. Burne-Jones sends, it is true, a number of studies; but his pictures are......

Poetry.

THE BLACKBIRD: A SPRING SONG. As I went up a woodland walk In Taunton Dene, When May was green— I heard a bird so blithely talk The twinkling sprays between, That I stood still,......