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Rh Wilson Steer are amongst those of his colleagues who have done the same thing. Mr. Sickert's poster, which is, I believe, as yet unpublished, is in four colours. It is calculated to make a good advertisement, and one can only hope soon to meet with it on the hoardings. As an impressionist painter of talent, Mr. Wilson Steer is as well known as Mr. Sickert. A "New English Art Club" Exhibition without his work would be one which lacked a most characteristic feature. Mr. Steer gave us an opportunity of appreciating his talent as a painter by organizing a show of his own work. To advertise this he did a poster, which was excellent of its kind, and is in consequence very rare. It is a comparatively small lithograph in four colours, and is quite unlike this artist's other work. It leans, it seems to me, towards Pre-Raphaelitism rather than towards Impressionism. An artist who has certainly sat at the feet of Mr. Whistler is Mr. Mortimer Menpes. To advertise several exhibitions of his paintings, he has invented at least three posters, which certainly do not lack the merit of originality. He has abstained from the frivolous girl and grotesque man. The "France," the "Venice," and the "India" are in their way considerable achievements in dainty design and quiet and harmonious colour. Mr. Menpes, by being intentionally simple, has arrived at notable conspicuity. All this artist's