Peripatetic Picture Galleries A most interesting experiment is about to
be made by the British Institute of Adult Education in holding loan exhibitions of pictures in places which have no local art galleries. Though most of the large towns have collections of their own, the smaller centres of population have not, and 4 is in these that the Institute hope to provide opportunities of seeing good pictures. They propose to start with exhibitions of paintings and draw- ings, lent for a period of one month, at Barnsley, Swindon and Silver End (near Braintree) ; and with a view to stimulating interest they will send lecturers who will give informal talks. Long ago the Whitechapel Art Gallery established the fact that if you make pictures accessible to the public, the public will soon develop the habit of going to see them.
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