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At the Society of Arta on Wednesday week, and again on Monday, at the Institute of*British Architects, M. Theophile Silvestro declared his mission from the French Government to report on the English Scheel of Fine Art, as well as to invite English Artists to send their works to the next Exhibition in Paris in April. At the first mentioned assembly he read a paper on Art and Artists in England of the eighteenth century to the pre- sent day, warmly eulogistic of Ilogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, West, Jackson, Constable, Turner, and other painters of our national school.
Five finisheddrawings in crayon by M. Alexander Bids, a French artist, resident for some length of time in the East, have been on view at the French Gallery, Pall Mall, during the week. They are entitled "The Wailing Place of the Jews," "A Maronite Priest expounding the Scriptures under the Cedars of Mount Lebanon," Albanian Soldiers and Bashi Bazouks in the Guardroom at Cairo," "Moslems at Prayer," "The return of Moslem Pilgrims from Mecca" ; masterly execution, consum- mate skill in drawing, admirable choice of subject, brilliant and clear tone and picturesque grouping are observable in them all. They are well worth a visit from artist and amateur.
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