The collection at the Temperance Hull yesterday proved beyond question that. if the Art Society is approaching a condition of mspondod animation, fe is, not frou want of talent in the amateurs of Shanghai, The annual exhibitions have hitherto been held at the Masonic Hall, but a less ambitious scene was chosen this year, from the fear that there would not be enough pictures sent in to justify the engagement: of the ampler scone; the fear however, was not justified: the pictures and the company alike would well have filled the Masonic Hall. The collection was not only large numerically, it was excellent artistically, and those who had neglected to go and look at it in the day-time id" really no room to do justice to it at the gathering in the evening, when music added her attractions to those of the sister art. So many of the pictures have been exhibited before that no more than a cursory notice of them is called for now. The first two in the catalo, "In the Nutwalk" and Canterbury Bel are as good as anything in the exhibition, if not quite the best; they are certainly the best water-colours, though several others by the same artist are but little behind them, The collection of photographs and black-and-white sketches on the screen in the corner is of vi excellence. The "Lift in the Fog" is a very clever reproduction of a Century woodcut "Birches" and ''Snowborn," from the same source, are very attractive. Another view of the copy of Aubert's ' Amour en Vacances" makes us doubt if we did full justice to it when it was first exhibited. Very high praise is due to the three vil paintings of scenes in Wales, Nos. 29, 30 and 31, while the copy of a "Scene in Devonshire," No. 32, is certainly the best piece of work the artist has exhibited. The composition called " Chequered Shade" is very pretty and effective, there
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