THE GROSVENOR GALLERY.
AN old name has been revived for a new gallery which is likely to be a popular one, for it consists of a series of rooms of moderate size in which pictures can be hung amid sur- roundings where an attempt is made to lessen the inevitably chilling effect of an exhibition. The present collection contains a large number of pictures which have been recently seen in London, and among them are several works by Mr. Strang which testify to the great if somewhat brutal power of the painter. A curious feature here is a room full of nocturnes by Mr. Walter Greaves, that mysterious artistic shadow of Whistler. How near he was able to approach his master is somewhat bewildering,and throws a good deal of light on that enigmatical personage in the history of art, "Scuola di." As we see the forms and the colours of Whistler here so astonishingly imitated, we can only say, as Wordsworth said of the echo, " The same, but ah, how different !" One picture is a delight to see again. It is Mr. Hughes-Stanton's noble landscape of Villeneuve les Avignon (No. 10). H. S.
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