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156 beautifully drawn. The lettering of this poster is most original, and the designer has evidently taken great pains with it. It is a lithograph in two colours, and measures forty-two and a half by thirty-one and a half inches. Schwæbe's larger poster, the "Salon Rose + Croix," is in one colour only, and is a good example of his work. So far this curiously-gifted artist has confined himself to advertising a concert and a picture show; it is not to be expected that he will ever condescend to soap or extract of beef. Another of the Rose + Croix men, Aman-Jean, has done a poster for the Salon which rivals in curiosity the productions of Schwæbe himself.

A little advertisement which had, it may well be, some influence on the poster movement in England, was that by which André Sinet advertised an exhibition of his own works held at the Goupil Gallery in 1893. This was an attractive little bit of design of which the colour was very agreeable. In addition to it, Sinet has done the inevitable poster for Yvette Guilbert. Another painter of talent who has made an advertisement for an exhibition of his own work is H. Guérard. It represents a group of ravens and is in poker work. It would appear to be rare, as it is quoted in none of the catalogues. A copy, exhibited at the Aquarium in 1894, is in the collection of Mr. Ernest Hart. Still another artist who