which has some rather pleasing work in water-colour, and a pastel or two, such as that of Mr. Lionel Heath, which are full of interest. Mr. Alyn Williams's delicate pencil-study s in a style always popular, and the portraits by Mr. Cecil Cutler show a rasp of

character and direct skill which we expect will bring him into fame. Among the crowds of winter exhibitions, the Arts and Crafts Club takes an honourable and hopeful position.

In Pall Mall, Mr. Kossak's "Red Sunday" is the attraction at Graves'. This large picture shows something of the horrors of that day in Petersburg, when the crowd approached the Palace and the Dragoon Guards were ordered to charge into the unarmed people. Father Gapon is seen with uplited crucifix, and every other historic detail of the scene is carefully given. The effect is one of sadness rather than of horror. There is blood, of course, but not of the violent quality of which Goya long ago, and the Salons a few years back, gave us more than enough.

The Doré Decadent

less pleasing exhibits, from Russian peasant work to Gustave Surand's wild animals. In the middle distance, so to speak, are the paintings of the Canadian artist, Mr. Bruce, and the water

The old glories of the Doré Gallery have departed, and in their place reigns a great variety of more or

colour drawings and sculpture by Mme. BenedicksBruce. Of these, and son.e other collections, the æsthetically most important is the peasant work, for that is characteristic, racy of the soil, näif, and bold. As regards painting, however, M. Surand has some wonderful pictures to show; his "Lion Reposing in the Shade" and his "Black Panther" have a touch of true insight, as also his "Happy Family." The execution is always accomplished, and seen perhaps to its greatest advantage in the "Orphée." After these comes a collection of Mr. Lawson Wood's water-colours.

Mr. Lawson Wood

To call a collection of comic drawings "Humorosity" at once shows the stern and relentless spirit in which the artist has set out to be funny. There is no doubt that Mr. Lawson Wood's excellent draughtsmanship, and his ultra and heroic British humour, will be largely appreciated, and the seventy odd drawings which he shows at the Doré Gallery

become extremely popular. The fun of the prehistoric. affair has been exploited by so many amusing people that we feel sur : it must be greatly enjoyed, and here is a feast of laughter-luring drawings on the antique but ever-green subject. Our own columns first gave to a waiting universe the series known as "Mr. Biff's Tour Round the World." In the present exhibition they appear not in black and white, but with all the charm that lively colouring can give.

Simeon Solomon

This season the wellknown gallery of Mr. John Baillie has been removed from Bayswater to 54, Baker Street, where a large collection of drawings and water-colours by the late Simeon Solomon has been brought together. In the early days Mr. Solomon possessed a high sense of beauty and a passion for the ideal, but beneath the whips and scorns of time his power passed, and at the period when another and more fortunate man would have been at the height of his power and fame, he merely reproduced the inspirations of his earlier days. To the student this exhibition is full of interest and warning.

This winter the Royal Society of British Artists has a collection hardly worthy of its high-sounding name. If the nations of the earth are to judge us by these pictures we fear we must appear a little absurd at the present time. However, this might be said with

equal truth of more important shows elsewhere, and among a somewhat commonplace gathering there are pictures that will greatly please the British

public, and many that will be passed unnoticed.

The 'Varsity in Art

Mr. William Nicholson is showing his twentyfour Oxford drawings at the Stafford Gallery; they are intended we presume, for reproduction, and are likely to be widely popu lar in the eyes of American visitors with a taste for the artist's well-known eighteenth-century manners. The undergraduate of the day is too fond of his nice new photographs to be allured by the decorative qualities of Mr. Nicholson's "Queen's" or "Bodleian," and the style of a century and a half ago, although immensely attractive to the artist, has no power over the modern Oxonian.

E. M.

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A meet of Viscount Galway's Hounds at the well-known old coaching house, Ye Olde Bell Inn, Barnby Moor, near Retford

The Bystander, December 20, 905

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