School has lost many of its terrors nowadays and it is easy to understand why this is so after visiting the exhibi tion which was opened on Monday at the Public School. "Two largo roams wore given up to a display of work done during the last two years by past and present pupils. The show was one of, which any school might well he proud, and two days in the hot weather seems all too brief a time for the inspoetion of so much that is ins! ye, interesting, and beautiful, the first room the work was that done by the juniors, most, if not all of them, under eight years of age. The ingenious processes by which the young idea is taught how to think and act for itself, yet muder wise and easy guidon to the most profitable channels, are lai bare to an extent by this public' showing of the various stages by which the little toddler of six years old, cutting out paper birds and, animals, building castles and lighthouses of playing-bricks, fashioning ships and vases out of putty, or crayoning simple drawings, is gradually trained into the clover artist or the alert-minded scholar. If it happens that the artistic and mechanical side of the school currie culm is most in evidence, that is obviously a condition of an exhibition of this character, but happily there is good ranson to believe that in all departments of school work equally good results could be put forward.
The more mature work of the advanced scholars, some of whom, it is fair to say, have finished their' schooling period proper, makes quite an imposing and certainly a notable collection. The pictures are generally copies, but this apparently is not. the case with all. A. P. Nazer has several canvasses of Jocal scenes; one showing a corner of " creek with a typical circular bridge and adjacent houses is specially noticeable for the clever manner in which the clear atmosphere has been suggested, and the scarcely perceptible difference between the subject of the sketch and the refleetion in the limpid water is introduced. The same artist has a charming drawing sapin of a woodland brooklet under moonlight, and another vil-painting in warm colours of junks in a river. Another most promising artist is Miss M. Goodfellow, whose still-life studies are graceful and life-like, and who has been very successful with two panels on lacquer. A. B. Clements has a striking copy of Sir Join Millais' " Cottin cloud" picture, of which he has managed to cate much of the energy; the figures stand out cap tally. His' Good night to Skye" also attracts attention by the vividness of the colours used. 'There isa whole gallery of charming girls' heads by Miss A. Pearson, who has developed a special talent in this direction, while Miss M. Solomon, to mention only one more out of many, has a very home-like scone in water colour, a towered village church by a broad and placid river. There is an interesting sories of photographs taken in and about Soochow by A. Olsen, who uses a surface paper which gives the effect almost of a copper etching, and is worth the attention of photographic amateurs,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.