lint arts.
The New Society of Painters in Water Colours continues to progress in variety and excellence. Two small landscapes by Mr. S. Cook, sea pieces on the West Coast of Cornwall-one at the " Close of Day," the other " The Early Summer Morning,"-disclose an unexceptionable treatment of sky and water, the ripple of the tide in the Morning view is as silvery and delicate as the real wave itself. Messrs. Warren, Whymper, Richardson, Philip, Mitchell, and M'Kewan, send landscapes, all of them clever and natural transcripts of the rich English scenery, now-a-days within any one's reach. Mr. Louis Haghe's Cromwell" shows us an interesting story out of Woodstock, where the Protector stands sadly regarding the Vandyke portrait of Charles the First, whilst his daughter is striving to lead him away from his vain regrets : here are the careful, charming, drawing, and colour, with all Mr. Haghe's wondrous effects of attitude and expression. " An Emeute at Louvain in the Olden Time," by the same artist, is a marvel; the struggling soldiery, the rough wild townspeople battling at the hall doorway and on the steps-the groups bearing stricken comrades, or tending the wounded,-here an old man dragged about in the mad crowd, there a nun in her last offices of charity,-with the background full of threaten- ing angry faces-all make up a masterpiece such as the owner of this facile pencil loves to pourtray. But first and most admirable in finish and sentiment of the landscapes, are Mr. E. G. Warren's, " Lost in the Woods "-an infant nestling in the underwood, with the high, leafy forest trees over head-quiet, peaceful, and solemn ; and "The Avenue, Evelyn Woods, Surrey," where the light crossing the laced shadow of the trees is absolutely startling from its vivid reality.
Mesdames Margett and Fanny Harris contribute fresh blooming flowers. Mr. Warren senior sends his usual Eastern effects, one a solemn moonlight " Flight into Egypt" ; and Mr. Corbould is repre- sented by a large resplendent picture of Tennyson's Dream of Fair Women.
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