At a meeting this week of the London Missionary Society's board of Directors it was announced that an anonymous donor had given £3,000 as the nucleus of a fund to restore the Society's work in China at the end of the war, was also stated that the property losses of the IMS. at Shanghai alone owing to the war amounted to £20,000, and the personal losses of its missionaries in clothes and furniture to £2,500.
One excellent announcement was that the whole of the accumulated deficit with which the year had be-
Another attractive character study to three years old Wallace, daughter Jot Mr. and Mrs. Frere-Reeves, and. grand-daughter of the one and only Edgar Wallace. A pretty child, but [specially attractive because it is not painted with the conventional Greuzeerly-Reynolds cherubic smile of! childhood, but shows a rather grave little face with a strong mouth and remarkably good forehead. Here is another of the young generation whose future should be interesting.
The last of Mrs, Macleod's portraits one of her sister Mrs. Gregory, who lived for several years in Japan, Jo humorous sympathetic race, crowned by masses of beautiful white hair which has not been cut short but is piled up in the graceful style of the years that are gone. All Mrs, Mac-Neod's pictures this, year are of her best, showing that insight and sure-' Mess of touch which have been so. strong and increasing a feature of her work in the past ten years.
The exhibition contains a great deal of attractive painting. 1 have been attending the. shows of the! United Society of artists regularly for! jelght years, and the all round rise In the standard of the pictures is most marked,
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