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244 signs are of small size, and are appropriate rather to the notice board than to the hoarding. Nothing more opposite to the fastidious productions of Mr. Menpes could be conceived than the vigorous poster by Mr. Lockhart Bogle advertising a Scottish Athletic Gathering, held in 1892. This is a large lithograph, consisting of a single figure of a Highlander, which, if not remarkably beautiful, is drawn with vigour and with no small accuracy. Mr. Brangwyn is one of those English painters of whom we are entitled to be proud. His directness, the audacity of his impressionism, the splendour (if sometimes ill-considered) of his colour schemes, cannot be passed over even by those who have slight sympathy with his method. That, if so inclined, he would produce a poster at once startling and artistic is not to be denied. The one which he has already designed to advertise an exhibition of South African pictures by himself and Mr. William Hunt, held at the Japanese Gallery, is certainly by no means worthy his remarkable talent, and one trusts that he will cease for a moment from painting pictures and produce a poster which shall be memorable in the history of the affiche in England.

Mr. Frank Richards is nothing if not versatile; his exhibition, held recently at the Dowdeswells’ Galleries, came as a surprise to all who were unacquainted with his