Painters, and Gravers have found a temporary home, and their exhibition forms about as great a contrast to the one at Burlington House as it is possible to imaging, but what the Internationss lack in dignity they certainly make up for in origiwslity and variety; few visitors to the Regence Street gallery could fail to admire something where so many tastes are catered for. Since the last show, held I think two years ago, the Society has lost its founder and first President, Mr. Whistler. Three of his works are included in the present exhibition, two of which, A Study in White" and Valparaiso" are well known, the third, Rose et Or:
jibe," is unfinished and for that reason jai interes:, more especially as it of an unusual amount of study and would undoubtedly have been a masterpiece when complete. Under it hangs a wreath of silver laurel leaves—a toud ting tribute from th" lateartist's many admirers. Next in point of interest to the work of the aead President comes that of his successor in office, M. Rodin, the great French sculptor, whose genius' we in England are proud to have been the first to recog-nisse. In the Centenl Hall of the Gallery there is a huge figure in plaster, Lo Grand Pensour," and not far off is a small bronze statuette of the same subject; both are magnificently conceived and carried out. The subject is a man, nude, seated on a rough stone, his boay bending forward, the head resting on the han The pose is suggestive of deep and absorbing thought and one feels that some great thing will come of it, The man is altogether a {grand creature. M. Rodin exhibits three other works, Bellona," "4 Dream," and Torso of St. John." All are fine but I liked "Lo Penseur best. Miss Janie Martin by Sir James Guthrie, a portrait of a child in a red frock, is bright and pretty; and "The First Communion," by John Lavery, I thought charming. Bat I think the black and white work interested me more. A series of nineteen etchings, colour prints, and lithographs by Felicien Tops were wonderfully dev-r, as were also some charcoal drawings of Spanish street views by Joseph Pennell, and some original wood engravings (after old Masters) by Timothy Cole. A casket in gold, silver, enamels, and precious stones, by Henry Wilson. presented to Mr. Chamberlain by the Members of the Constitutional Club, attracted a great a'nount of attention at the private view; it really is beautifully made but caskets always appear to me so very useless, Death of a Celebrated Contralto.
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