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Labour," and "Sheep on the Cotswolds," in the Academy Gallery in 1858, and, in the next year, "On the Road to Gloucester Fair." From this date till 1864 he was absent from the Academy as an exhibitor, but in the last-mentioned year he sent "Iron Bars" and "Romeo and Juliet." Among his subsequent works are:—"The Poacher's Nurse," "Strayed from the Flock," a dead lamb lying in the snow, and "The Long Sleep," 1866; "Fox and Geese" (exhibited in the exhibition of water-colour painters at the Dudley Gallery in 1868, and now in the collection at South Kensington); "The Prisoners," 1869; "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Charity," 1870; "Come Back!" and "Circe transforming the Friends of Ulysses into Pigs," 1871; "Daniel" in the lions' den, 1872; "Argus" and "All that was left of the Homeward Bound," 1873; "Apollo," and "Genius Loci," 1874; "War Time," and "The Last of the Garrison," 1876; "A Stern Chase is always a Long Chase," and "Pallas Athene and the Swineherd's Dogs," 1876; "A Legend of St. Patrick," and "Lazarus," 1877; "An Anxious Moment," a flock of geese frightened at the sight of a hat on the ground; "Sympathy," "Victims," and "The Ruins of Persepolis," 1878; "In manus tuas Domine," "The Poacher's Widow," now in the public library, Birmingham, and "A Winter's Tale," 1879; "The Night Watch," "The Last Spoonful," and "Endymion," 1880; "A Roman Holiday," "Envy, Hatred, and Malice," "Hope Deferred," and "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie,"1881; "The Magician's Doorway," "Una," and "Portrait of Miss Potter," 1882; "The Unclean Spirits entering into the Swine," "Old Playfellows," "The Last of the Crew," and "Giants at Play," 1883. Many of the above have been engraved on steel by F. Stacpoole, A.R.A., S. Cousins, R.A., and C. J. Lewis; and other works have been etched by various hands. Mr. Riviere was elected A.R.A. Jan. 16, 1878, and R.A. May 5, 1881.

ROBBINS, Alfred Farthing, son of Mr. Richard Robbins, of Launceston, Cornwall, was born there Aug. 1, 1856, and educated at the local Grammar School. His earliest contributions to journalism were to the East Cornwall Times (Launceston) in 1868, but two years later he was apprenticed as a chemist, to which business he devoted four years. During this time, however, he wrote many leading articles for the before-mentioned paper, as well as the first instalment of a history of his nartive place, published in the columns of that journal, under the signature of "Dunheved." Immediately upon the expiration of his apprenticeship in July, 1874, he joined the editorial staff of the Western Daily Mercury (Plymouth), and, in the following April, that of the Bedfordshire Times and Independent (Bedford). In Oct., 1875, he was appointed editor of the Luton Reporter, which post he left a year later to become one of the staff of the Bradford Observer. While in Bradford, he was a frequent contributor to the Yorkshireman, a weekly journal published in that town, to which, in 1877, he supplied a series, entitled "Notable Living Yorkshiremen," of biographical sketches of eighteen of the best known Yorkshire members of Parliament; and in 1878 (under the name of "Tom Clifton"), a serial story, with the title "In Doubt." In Dec., 1877, his first dramatic effort, a comedietta, entitled "Helps," was produced by the late Madame Beatrice, at Lincoln, and, in the following September, his farce, "A Pleasant Hour," was given by Mr. Joseph Eldred, at Bradford. In March, 1879, he joined the staff of the Press Association, and, a month or two later (under the pseudonym of "Nemesis"), published a pamphlet entitled "Five Years of Tory Role,"