'Gogstay, A.R.A.;
        and »Neighbourhood of Corpodibacco - Evening - a Contadina and a
        Trasteverino dancing at the door of a Locanda to the music of a
        Pifferaro.« - Since his visit to Italy Mr. O'Gogstay seems to have given
        up the scenes of Irish humour with which he used to delight us; and the
        romance, the poetry, the religion of »Italia la bella« form the subjects
        of his pencil. The scene near Corpodibacco (we know the spot well, and
        have spent many a happy month in its romantic mountains) is most
        characteristic. Cardinal Cospetto, we must say, is a most truculent
        prelate, and not certainly an ornament to his church.
            49, 210, 311. Smee, R.A. - Portraits which a Reynolds might be proud
        of; a Vandyck or Claude might not disown. »Sir Brian Newcome, in the
        Costume of a Deputy-Lieutenant,« »Major-General Sir Thomas de Boots,
        K.C.B.,« painted for the 50th Dragoons, are triumphs, indeed, of this
        noble painter. Why have we no picture of the sovereign and her august
        consort from Smee's brush? When Charles II. picked up Titian's
        mahl-stick, he observed to a courtier, »A king you can always have; a
        genius comes but rarely.« While we have a Smee among us, and a monarch
        whom we admire - may the one be employed to transmit to posterity the
        beloved features of the other! We know our lucubrations are read in high
        places, and respectfully insinuate verbum sapienti.
            1906. »The M'Collop of M'Collop« - A. M'Collop - is a noble work of
        a young artist, who, in depicting the gallant chief of a hardy Scottish
        clan, has also represented a romantic Highland landscape, in the midst
        of which, his foot upon his native heath, stands a man of splendid
        symmetrical figure and great facial advantages. We shall keep our eye on
        Mr. M'Collop.
            1367. »Oberon and Titania.« Ridley, - This sweet and fanciful little
        picture draws crowds round about it, and is one of the most charming and
        delightful works of the present exhibition. We echo the universal
        opinion in declaring that it shows not only the greatest promise, but
        the most delicate and beautiful performance. The Earl of Kew, we
        understand, bought the picture at the private view; and we congratulate
        the young painter heartily upon his successful début. He is, we
        understand, a pupil of
