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1137 six there is a tremendous and overpowering painting by Mr. Herkomer, representing a Bavarian Burgomaster and his Councillors, life size (436). In gallery seven we see Mr. Croft’s picture of Napoleon Cheering on his Troops at this of a curious want is THERE year really great pictures. Waterloo (499). "The Bayswater ’Bus," by Mr. George. An uninteresting evenness pervades the galleries, and some Joy, is clever, and includes some pretty faces, but,
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would say that the average is high.
This is true in a sense, for examples of bad drawing are few and are confined for the most part to the works of the Academicians. Composition, too, with the same exception, has been successfully studied. In two particulars only is there no improvement. Colour is, if possible, more inharmonious than ever, many of the more important pictures-as, for example, the President’s "Flaming June"and Mr. Tadema’s "Spring"—being particularly noticeable in this respect. The choice of subjects is equally unfortunate, the number of death-bed scenesall, fortunately, as unlike the real thing as possible ; the number of children at their mothers’ knees, of allegorieswith ghosts, angels, or fairies, as the case may be ; and of Andromedas, Ariadnes, Judgments of Paris, and other classical subjects, being positively monotonous. There appears to be very little sculpture this year, though there are two or three of the nude figures which, if we mistake not, Mr. Onslow Ford made the fashion a few years ago. He exhibits an attenuated girl in bronze, very well modelled, but very illnourished, and entitled "Echo." Mr. Thorneycroft’s recumbent figure of the late Bishop of Carlisle should not be overlooked. There is a curious drawing which looks like tapestry in the sculpture room. It is one of Mr. Richmond’s designs for the decoration of St. Paul’s (1713). The water-colour room is well filled, and we observe a very clever portrait by Mrs. Jopling (914) ; a curious, highly finished "Cinderella," Quietude," an eccentric study by Mr. Southall (962) ; and" of a head, with Diirer’s 11 Melencolia" as a background, by Mr. Lncien Levy (971). "An Alien," a lovely figure, highly finished, but very small, is by Mr. Bulleid (1024). Mr. Clifford makes a new departure in his Bric- A-brac Shop
(1082).
" are obvious difficulties in the view. Evening Glow " (534) is one of Mr. Leader’s best pictures this year, though the trees and the watery meadows have so often. done duty before. In the eighth gallery we have a fine sea, piece by Mr. Somerscales, "After the Gale: Taking to the Boats" (593), but Mr. Wyllie in a large painting fails to make the Tower Bridge picturesque (611). In the ninth gallery we have the usual show of small this year by Messrs. Moore, Dillon, Logsdaii, Gow, Mrs. Alma-Tadema, and Miss Montalba. In the next is a pleasant "Offer of Marriage," by Mr. Sadler and a curious but powerful Interior of a Jose House, by Mr. Wetton (761). In the eleventh gallery we must pass over Lady Butler’s "Scots Greys on the Morning of Waterloo" (853), and a battle piece by Mr. Caton Woodville (869), and go on to a very powerful Snow Scene by Mr. Farquharson (873). "Toddy at the Cheshire Cheese," by Mr. Dendy Sadler (887), represents a cleverly painted group of old topers, and is in the artist’s best style. A longer and more careful examination than we have had time to bestow on this year’s exhibition will no doubt reveal much that we have missed, but the foregoing notes give only the impressions of a first glance.
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(776),
CITY
HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM.
ON the invitation of the chairman of the Health Coma number of gentlemen interested in the sanitary condition of the borough attended at the site of the new hospital at Little Bromwich on April 24th. So many responding to the request, it was found necessary to organise the visitors into three parties, under the guidance respectively of Alderman Cook, Alderman Dr. Barratt, and Mr. Councillor Lancaster. About 180 were present, lunch being provided by the chairman, whose practical knowledge. sound judgment, and constant attention have contributed. largely in making the new scheme successful. The present hospital may be looked upon as one of the most perfect of its kind, replete with every modern arrangement and appliances of the most recent kind ; indeed, no efforts or money have been spared to bring it to a degree of completeness which will justify the labour spent upon it. Appended is a plan of the hospital with explanatory notes taken from the programme of the day’s proceedings. The hospital has been erected for the treatment of smallpox cases. It is situated on the east side of the city, about three and a quarter miles from the centre of the town and about 500 yaids from the city boundary. The site is about twenty-four acres in extent. A. Entrance lodge, a red brick building relieved with stone, with half-timbered gables, a covered porch, and a, vestibule communicating on one side with a reception-room for visitors or others making inquiries, and on the other with the porter’s residence and yard, from which access to the gas and water meters is obtained. B. Receivir;g ward. This consists of a single room, with a bath-room leading therefrom, and a small enclosed yard and cffices. Here patients are examined and stripped of their clothing, which is sent at once to the disinfecting stations to be purified before being placed in the store connected with the discharging ward. The patients are then taken either directly into one of the pavilions to undergo treatment, or if any doubt exists as to the nature of the case they are placed in the isolation pavilion and kept there for further observation. C. The isolation ’pavilion is situated on a by-road ; it is arranged for males and for females, and consists of a number of small wards with one, two, or three beds in each as required. The access to each ward is from the open air, but under a covered glass verandah. Special bathing and other sanitary arrangements are made, all securing perfect isolation. D. Official and administrative departments. This block is divided into three sections, the central containing the medical quarters and matron’s apartments, the left-hand side
I, mittee, Alderman Cock, ’
If we take the galleries in order, omitting portraits, we shall find three or four pictures worth looking at in the first. These are "Spring,"by Cecil Rea (38) ; "Evening," by Mr. Leader; "St. Stephen," by Sir J. E. Millais (18) ; and " The Fisherman and the Jin," by Mr. Prinsep (25). "The Pot of Basil," by J. L. Gloag (53), is powerful enough but too eccentric, and Isabella cannot have the normal number of vertebræ in her spinal column. In the second room we find Mr. Waterhouse’s "St. Cecilia." She is represented in a "walled city on the sea," asleep with two angels playing before her. The artist has experimented and striven with all his might to attain harmony of colour, but has failed, yet his picture in many ways deserves its"place of honour." Mr. Byam Shaw errs in the same manner, but less completely, and his scene from the "Blessed Damczel" (110) has some of the richness of a manuscript illumination. The President’s "Maid with the Golden Hair" (139) is " pleasing and very complete. Mr. Storey’s "Coming Events (40) has his usual prettiness and the landscape part is good, but not so good as in his "November Sunshine " (81). In the Great Room the place of honour is filled by Mr. Briton Riviere’s "Phcebus Apollo" (160) driving a team of lions in a chariot. We questiou if he will ever succeed in getting back the foot and leg he has extended over the front of the chariot, but the whole picture is brilliant and spirited to a rare degree. "Ruth" (225) and "Rachel"(216), by Mr. Goodall, are much alike in hardness and dull colouring, but are correctly drawn. It is not possible to praise the picture of an ugly, bloated boy, With a crooked mouth, which Mr. Watts labels "The Outcast : Goodwill"(258), nor is it possible to make out the meaning of the name. There are several fine landscapes in this room, but both Mr. MacWhirter’s and Mr. Peter Graham’s suffer from woolliness. ’’ Glen Orchis " (201), by Mr. Henry Moore, will be admired, as will two views by Mr. Hook, and Mr. Brett’s reminiscence of his native cliffe (232), which is rather spoiled by a spotty foreground. We should also notice the President’s graceful Lachrymæ " (182), and Mr. Poynter’s charming little " Ionian Dance " (270), is both wen drawn and well finished. There is little to delay us in the fourth room, but "A Priestess," by Mr. Godward, is firmly handled and not without beauty (304). In the fifth gallery we may pause at Mr. Brett’s Isles of the Sirens " (409) and at Mr. Shannon’s cold and unpleasantly ansemic Portrait of a Lady (410). In
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would say that the average is high.
This is true in a sense, for examples of bad drawing are few and are confined for the most part to the works of the Academicians. Composition, too, with the same exception, has been successfully studied. In two particulars only is there no improvement. Colour is, if possible, more inharmonious than ever, many of the more important pictures-as, for example, the President’s "Flaming June"and Mr. Tadema’s "Spring"—being particularly noticeable in this respect. The choice of subjects is equally unfortunate, the number of death-bed scenesall, fortunately, as unlike the real thing as possible ; the number of children at their mothers’ knees, of allegorieswith ghosts, angels, or fairies, as the case may be ; and of Andromedas, Ariadnes, Judgments of Paris, and other classical subjects, being positively monotonous. There appears to be very little sculpture this year, though there are two or three of the nude figures which, if we mistake not, Mr. Onslow Ford made the fashion a few years ago. He exhibits an attenuated girl in bronze, very well modelled, but very illnourished, and entitled "Echo." Mr. Thorneycroft’s recumbent figure of the late Bishop of Carlisle should not be overlooked. There is a curious drawing which looks like tapestry in the sculpture room. It is one of Mr. Richmond’s designs for the decoration of St. Paul’s (1713). The water-colour room is well filled, and we observe a very clever portrait by Mrs. Jopling (914) ; a curious, highly finished "Cinderella," Quietude," an eccentric study by Mr. Southall (962) ; and" of a head, with Diirer’s 11 Melencolia" as a background, by Mr. Lncien Levy (971). "An Alien," a lovely figure, highly finished, but very small, is by Mr. Bulleid (1024). Mr. Clifford makes a new departure in his Bric- A-brac Shop
(1082).
" are obvious difficulties in the view. Evening Glow " (534) is one of Mr. Leader’s best pictures this year, though the trees and the watery meadows have so often. done duty before. In the eighth gallery we have a fine sea, piece by Mr. Somerscales, "After the Gale: Taking to the Boats" (593), but Mr. Wyllie in a large painting fails to make the Tower Bridge picturesque (611). In the ninth gallery we have the usual show of small this year by Messrs. Moore, Dillon, Logsdaii, Gow, Mrs. Alma-Tadema, and Miss Montalba. In the next is a pleasant "Offer of Marriage," by Mr. Sadler and a curious but powerful Interior of a Jose House, by Mr. Wetton (761). In the eleventh gallery we must pass over Lady Butler’s "Scots Greys on the Morning of Waterloo" (853), and a battle piece by Mr. Caton Woodville (869), and go on to a very powerful Snow Scene by Mr. Farquharson (873). "Toddy at the Cheshire Cheese," by Mr. Dendy Sadler (887), represents a cleverly painted group of old topers, and is in the artist’s best style. A longer and more careful examination than we have had time to bestow on this year’s exhibition will no doubt reveal much that we have missed, but the foregoing notes give only the impressions of a first glance.
there
I works room
(776),
CITY
HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM.
ON the invitation of the chairman of the Health Coma number of gentlemen interested in the sanitary condition of the borough attended at the site of the new hospital at Little Bromwich on April 24th. So many responding to the request, it was found necessary to organise the visitors into three parties, under the guidance respectively of Alderman Cook, Alderman Dr. Barratt, and Mr. Councillor Lancaster. About 180 were present, lunch being provided by the chairman, whose practical knowledge. sound judgment, and constant attention have contributed. largely in making the new scheme successful. The present hospital may be looked upon as one of the most perfect of its kind, replete with every modern arrangement and appliances of the most recent kind ; indeed, no efforts or money have been spared to bring it to a degree of completeness which will justify the labour spent upon it. Appended is a plan of the hospital with explanatory notes taken from the programme of the day’s proceedings. The hospital has been erected for the treatment of smallpox cases. It is situated on the east side of the city, about three and a quarter miles from the centre of the town and about 500 yaids from the city boundary. The site is about twenty-four acres in extent. A. Entrance lodge, a red brick building relieved with stone, with half-timbered gables, a covered porch, and a, vestibule communicating on one side with a reception-room for visitors or others making inquiries, and on the other with the porter’s residence and yard, from which access to the gas and water meters is obtained. B. Receivir;g ward. This consists of a single room, with a bath-room leading therefrom, and a small enclosed yard and cffices. Here patients are examined and stripped of their clothing, which is sent at once to the disinfecting stations to be purified before being placed in the store connected with the discharging ward. The patients are then taken either directly into one of the pavilions to undergo treatment, or if any doubt exists as to the nature of the case they are placed in the isolation pavilion and kept there for further observation. C. The isolation ’pavilion is situated on a by-road ; it is arranged for males and for females, and consists of a number of small wards with one, two, or three beds in each as required. The access to each ward is from the open air, but under a covered glass verandah. Special bathing and other sanitary arrangements are made, all securing perfect isolation. D. Official and administrative departments. This block is divided into three sections, the central containing the medical quarters and matron’s apartments, the left-hand side
I, mittee, Alderman Cock, ’
If we take the galleries in order, omitting portraits, we shall find three or four pictures worth looking at in the first. These are "Spring,"by Cecil Rea (38) ; "Evening," by Mr. Leader; "St. Stephen," by Sir J. E. Millais (18) ; and " The Fisherman and the Jin," by Mr. Prinsep (25). "The Pot of Basil," by J. L. Gloag (53), is powerful enough but too eccentric, and Isabella cannot have the normal number of vertebræ in her spinal column. In the second room we find Mr. Waterhouse’s "St. Cecilia." She is represented in a "walled city on the sea," asleep with two angels playing before her. The artist has experimented and striven with all his might to attain harmony of colour, but has failed, yet his picture in many ways deserves its"place of honour." Mr. Byam Shaw errs in the same manner, but less completely, and his scene from the "Blessed Damczel" (110) has some of the richness of a manuscript illumination. The President’s "Maid with the Golden Hair" (139) is " pleasing and very complete. Mr. Storey’s "Coming Events (40) has his usual prettiness and the landscape part is good, but not so good as in his "November Sunshine " (81). In the Great Room the place of honour is filled by Mr. Briton Riviere’s "Phcebus Apollo" (160) driving a team of lions in a chariot. We questiou if he will ever succeed in getting back the foot and leg he has extended over the front of the chariot, but the whole picture is brilliant and spirited to a rare degree. "Ruth" (225) and "Rachel"(216), by Mr. Goodall, are much alike in hardness and dull colouring, but are correctly drawn. It is not possible to praise the picture of an ugly, bloated boy, With a crooked mouth, which Mr. Watts labels "The Outcast : Goodwill"(258), nor is it possible to make out the meaning of the name. There are several fine landscapes in this room, but both Mr. MacWhirter’s and Mr. Peter Graham’s suffer from woolliness. ’’ Glen Orchis " (201), by Mr. Henry Moore, will be admired, as will two views by Mr. Hook, and Mr. Brett’s reminiscence of his native cliffe (232), which is rather spoiled by a spotty foreground. We should also notice the President’s graceful Lachrymæ " (182), and Mr. Poynter’s charming little " Ionian Dance " (270), is both wen drawn and well finished. There is little to delay us in the fourth room, but "A Priestess," by Mr. Godward, is firmly handled and not without beauty (304). In the fifth gallery we may pause at Mr. Brett’s Isles of the Sirens " (409) and at Mr. Shannon’s cold and unpleasantly ansemic Portrait of a Lady (410). In