Studio: international art (18.1900)

Studio-Talk

In connection with this
show of pictures a point of
interest may be raised here.
Will the public ever have
courage enough to refuse a
shilling for a little catalogue
which could be sold profit-
ably for twopence? Surely
it is bad enough to pay that
amount for the privilege of
entering an exhibition ; but
when to this one shilling
another is added for a cata-
logue, we cannot but think
that to most people it is a
great extravagance to gratify
a taste for modern art. Two
shillings may seem a mere
trifle, yet it is an important
sum to that vast number of
men who just escape the in-
come-tax. Indeed, it is ap-
proximately as important to
them as £\oo to a million-
aire ; and what millionaire
would be such a mad specu-
lator as to invest ,£100 in
" a gallery headache " ?

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IVERPOOL.—The

very complete col-
lection of valuable

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(See Paris Stuaio-Talk) the Arts and Crafts

in the Free Public Library

than average merit. There is abundant promise in here are efficiently introduced to the notice of the

Mr. G. H. Lenfestey's landscape, Mountain, Moss, art student, craftsman, and designer, through the

and Moor; there is a clever sketch—it is a piece periodic display thoughtfully instituted by the chief

of history—by Mr. J. Finnemore, representing the librarian, Mr. Peter Cowell. His method is to issue

lying-in-state of Mr. Gladstone; and there is an special invitations to all who are likely to be inter-

astoundingly able portrait by Mr. Wright Manuel, ested, and to exhibit in the large reading-room of the

whose untimely death from typhoid we all deplore, library all the finest works published in this country

Sir Wyke Bayliss has some friendly architectural or abroad. They are arranged in groups, such as

pieces; Mr. Lee Hankey is represented by a few Bookbinding, Printing and Illuminating, Carvings,

refined drawings; and there are variously good Ceramics and Pottery, Decoration of Buildings,

landscapes by Mr. Rooke, Mr. Haite, and Mr. Furniture, Enamels, Glasswork, Metalwork, Textile

Montague Smyth. The picture which to us seems Fabrics, &c.

most interesting is Mr. Cayley Robinson's charming -

group of three girls in the firelight. Of this paint-
ing an illustration will be given next month; till The books of various countries are thus readily
then we reserve what we have to say about its compared and notes taken for future reference to
merits, them; while many volumes that would otherwise
- remain on the library shelves unread come in

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