In consequence of the very late Easter the private view of the Academy falls this year in Easter week. It is, I think, a good -show, though I do not expect that any great.new reputations will be made by it, It loses severely, too, not only by the death of G. F. Watts, but by the told absence of any work by Mr. Abbo} 'The places of honour in the great gallery given up to a portrait, of Lady Warwick and a little boy, by Sargent an imposing picture of "The Finding of Moses," by Alma-Tadema, and Luke Fildes' State portrait of the Queen in her Coronation robes. Mr. Sargent's many admirers will rave about his Lady Warwick. It is certainly a trothful portrait. It does not disguise the fact that the countess, beautiful though she still is, is not quite so beautiful as she was. On the other hand, the Queen, marvellously as she has her youth, is not and could not be at sixty quite so young-looking as Mr. Fildes makes her appear. One is tempted to admire the painting of the accessories—the robe and the jowels, the wonderful ropes of immense pearle—more than the presentment of the features. In striking contrast by its absence of flattery is Mz. Harold Speed's portrait of the King, painted for Belfast and other portraits which will attract much attention are one by Mr. of the German Emperor in British Field-marshal's uniform, and one by Sargent of the Duke of Marlborough and his family. As for the other notable of the show your readers will have ample opportunity of judging of their subjects and composition from the innumerable photographs which will appear in Academy guides and the illustrated papers,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.