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THE ROYAL PICTURES.

THE ART-JOURNAL for DECEMBER,
price 2s. 6d., completes the first year's issue of Engravings
from Pictures in the Royal Collections; those in the present
Number being —" The Pasture, Osborne," after T. S. Cooper,
A.R.A., and " The Flute Player," after J. B. Pater. " Ulysses,"
from the group by Macdonald, is the Sculpture Plate for the
month.
The Illustrated Catalogue of the French Industrial Exhibi-
tion is also completed in the Decembert Part, which contains,
among other literary coutributions—" French Criticism on
British Sculpture"—" The Maclellan Gallery, Glasgow"—" De-
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proposed Extension "—" The Winter Exhibition," &c. &c.
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Now ready,
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History of Sardinia•
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Dedicated, by permisaion, to Viscount Palmerston.
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THE PHYSICIAN OR ALL;
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THE EAR IN HEAI,TH ASI) DISEASE;
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SINAI AND PALESTINE;
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FIVE YEARS IN DAMASCUS.
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HISTORY OF LATIN CHRISTIANITY
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THE ART

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