Gossip your daily scourge; and when you die
They'll make a market of your private letters,
And try to mix you in some mess of scandal;
'Tis question if the game is worth the candle!
Learning by Art.—The Painters in Water-Colours have done good service to their Royal Institute by the exhibition of their works this season. On the whole, or rather walls, a very worthy show. "Royal Windsor," by Mr. Keeley Halswelle, although suggestive of mist, is not likely to be overlooked. Then Miss Rose Barton's "South Kensington Station" seems to give great satisfaction to those who can identify the coloured bottles in the shop-window of a local chemist. Miss Kate Greenaway is well to the front with "The Portrait of a Little Boy" and "An Angel visiting the Green Earth" both of which are described by members of the "so-called" fair sex "sweetly pretty." Mr. E. H. Corbould's companion paintings of "At Home" and "Not at Home," are suggestive of incidents in the life of a Military Doctor, seemingly partial to wearing his uniform habitually in a house that has been presumably decorated under the direction of a heraldic stationer. The Military Doctor in the second picture is winking. Altogether the subject is unconventional.
