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THE SCOTTISH ART REVIEW

from the lower readies of the Clyde. A picture in illustration of the legend of ' The Good King Wenceslas,' and a broadly-handled landscape entitled 'The Hill-top,' will represent Mr. Alexander Roche. Mr. George Henry's two principal works will be an effect of nioonrise upon a landscape vague and mysterious in the fading light, and a study of a girl in firelight entitled ' Gloamin',' with the greenish light from an evening sky reflected upon her face. Mr. Thomas Hunt has sent in a large picture re- presenting an incident at a Highland horse fair, entitled ' Waiting for Buyers' ; Mr. R. M. G. Coven- try, a sea-piece with figures, called 'A Summer Day'; Mr. Joseph Henderson, a large sea and shore picture, 'The Mull of Cantyre from Southend '; Mr. P. Mac- gregor Wilson, one somewhat similar in subject, but widely different in treatment, painted at Carra- dale ; Mr. Thomas Millie Dow, two drawings in pastel ; Mr. J. Denovan Adam, a large evening land- scape with Highland cattle ; Mr. E. A. Hornel, a delightful little picture of a girl in a snowy wood- land ; Mr. Well wood Rattray, a large landscape, and Mr. Harrington Mann, a picture called ' In Arcady.' Other local exhibitors are Messrs. James Paterson, A. Brownlie Docharty, James M. Nairn, AVilliam Young, James A. Aitken, T. Corsan Morton, J. AVhitelaw Hamilton, George Pirie, Tom M'Ewan, J. D. Taylor, Duncan Mackellar, Harry Spence, Charles M'Ewen, Alexander Macbride, Andrew Black, C. J. Lauder, Standish Hartrick, David Pidton, John Henderson, J. G. Laing, Alexander Frew, J. Morris Henderson, and others. From Edinburgh, Mr. Robert Gibb, R.S.A., has sent his portrait of Sir Arthur Halkett, and Mr. James Pryde, a small portrait of his motlier. The contributions from other East-country painters will be numerous.

Sculpture in Glasgow will be represented by Mr. J. Massey Rhind, with a group in plaster, ' The Lesson,' a portrait medallion in bronze of a young lady, and a child's bust in plaster. Mr. Kellock Brown will send bas-reliefs in plaster of ' Thalia, Muse of Comedy,' and ' Commerce.' Mr. J. P. Macgillivray will probably not be represented this year.

To the architectural section Messrs. John Burnet, Son, and Campbell have sent a design submitted for the R.C.Y.C. Club-House at Hunter's Quay ; Mr. William Leiper, an interior view of the Park Church showing proposed alterations ; Mr. John Keppie, a sketch design for proposed memorial to the late James Sellars, and Mi John Honeyman, a drawing of Portobello Free Church.

The Exhibition will open to the public on Tues- day, 5th February.