A PEOPLE'S GALLERY IN CAMBERWELL.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The constantly growing interest which is manifest on all hands in every endeavour to spread the knowledge and love of Art among the large body of the people, encourages us to ask your readers to help us in an effort of this character, which is now entering on the twenty-third year of its activity, and which covers a vast field hitherto wholly unprovided for.
We have become possessed, for the purposes of the South London Fine Art Gallery, of a large freehold site near Cam- berwell Vestry Hall, on which we desire to build a large, per- manent, and fire-proof Art Gallery. This will be two miles from any of the proposed " Polytechnics," and still further from the British and South Kensington Museums, and from the National and Dulwich Galleries; and it will be in the midst of an enormous population which is entirely without any similar public institution.
The very large number of visitors to our present temporary gallery shows how much such an institution is appreciated, and we confidently hope for the loan of still more valuable works of art than those we have hitherto displayed there, when we shall be in possession of a permanent and properly constructed building.
We want only £4,000, but we want that sum with as little delay as may be, that our important work may suffer no hindrance. Cheques, crossed " Roberts, Lubbock, and Co., account of South London Fine Art Gallery," may be sent to us, or to Mr. Rossiter, at our present gallery, 207 Camberwell Road, who will send to any one desiring it, a report of the work done there.—We are, Sir, &c.,
(Signed), FRED. LEIGHTON, P.R.A.; JAMES D. LINTON, P.R.I.; WYBE BAYLISS, P.R.B.A.; G. F. WATTS, R.A. ; E. BURNE-JONES ; WALTER CRANE.
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