Wo should not have been surprised if the May exhibition of this Suciety had been announced as the last, but the Ji show la so much better, both in the number and quality of the pictures displayed, thas we positively leave the Hall with regret, There is some very good work this month, notably Nu, 3's Landscape from Nature, Stormy Day, North Wale which the drawing aid colouring are admirable, and the effect of the driving and wind as true as possible. We must 0 mention with approval No. 16's Sunflowera on a tray, and a plaque from No. G4, 'Azaleas, whose only fault is a certain hard-dees and want of transparency. Cuming to the catalogus, we begin with a rather wooden and uninteresting Shanghai View by No. 47, in' which the jinricsha wheel is uncertain and the coelia very blue. On easels are two marked specimens of the grent toa-tray school, a Scene in Kent, with hitherto unknown mount:
round, by No, 8, and an Alpi 0. 35, It is 'a pity select better pictures to copy. No. 64 sends an impossible and very leathery old beggar, whos stalwart shoulders belie his antique Visage; and a pretty little view of a glen in Hongkong, which is spoilt as a picture by being cut in half by the top line of the bridge. "No, 58's Gulf of Chusan fect as the Nour Ningpo, on the Rupi unworthy, he middle distance in the lat for is altogether undefined, and the whole ekotoh is pathy and fated. An old Beech, by No. 12, is as good as usual. The Pagoda at the Hills, by No. 33, is very accurately drawn, We are gind to see No. 18 exhibiting again, but regret that we cannot discover that thi artist makes any advance, The rocks themselves in Rocks at Chefoo are cloverly drawn and coloured, though desti tute of any softness or sentiment, and what is intended for the ea is a solid blue wall over the top of which appear some graves, The Low ide, and After Sunset, Chefoo, are not the best work of the artist, "No, 53 sends two pretty of water-colours, the right-hand one, with the isolated rock being the better, the sea in the lett hand one being some-in i No. 66's Ini decorated tea-pot by No. 53 is tri the coarse clay has spoilt tire purity of the colouring, No, 34's Bridge near Chingpu is w very pretty sketch, the colouring of the stone work being rather audacious Who portrait of a China boy by the fist is careful but w a ings No, 39's An Revoir Haute Ecole are wonderful but there la an imme deal of spirit in the action of the pony the former one, No, 24's Straits of Shimonoaheki is a very humourous sketch the eaverness of the row of trees on the crest of the hill to the left to yet down to the sea, and the tentative way in which the successive beaches on the right thrust their arms into the water, is very fanny 5 the picture asa whole is a utile inky. No, 20'a Fruit is a well-laboured copy and we now come to the most beauti-collection, No, 9's Silver 'o have this water-colour jung on one's wall would be simply a perpetual Et strikes at firat sight, and it beata the closest inspection; it is almost perfect. No, 17's Home Scene la well-meaning, but feeble; and the tender de. Vicacy of Riv. 7's Ioo-Plates is very allure Flowers are the subject of the comyetition this time, and there are five cum-petitors. No. 3's spray of maple in a blue jar with butterflies is delicious, and it is far and away the best of the five, though No, 1's geraniums are exceedingly good, handred with freedom, pleasantly composed and brilliantly coloured. No. 2's azaleas are accurate but hard. No. 4's dead peachblossom ie surely larger than it ever was in nature, while the wood is too small, No.
velamen is striking, but it seems lost on so large a ground, The Society has done so well on the whole in its June show, that we have ranson to anticipate a most successful reopening in the autumn: we might auggeat to those members who are going to Chefoo, that the cottage and broken gateway at the Gap are getting somewhat stale, and that the new church near the mouth of the Soochow Creek—we often miss prospects that are too close to us—makes a charming picture on " suave morning as seen from the Hongkew side of the creek, and combines very prettily with the public garden and the river.
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