The Canadian War Memorials Exhibition is perhaps the most interesting
collection of pictures that has been seen In London since the war. The selection is extraordinarily catholic, ranging from the late Mr. Byam. Shaw's hundred square feet of sentimentality to Mr. Augustus John's vigorous and decorative cartoon, from Mr. Shannon's charming and conservative portrait of Princess Patricia to Captain Cullen's "Dead Horse and Rider" or Gunner Roberts's salmon-coloured tangle of Turcos. But the kinship of the subjects and the uniformity of purpose have bound this diversity into a kind of unity, and the result is that the Exhibition is impressive in a high degree. When it is lodged in Ottawa in Lieutenant Rickards's sound if somewhat unimaginative memorial gallery—for a place in whose structure the bigger decorations have all been designed—this impression of a dignified whole will be very much enhanced.
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