(Curtain falls.)

THE “ART” EXHIBITION.

The elaborate “sell” which goes by this name is an institution which has only sprung up within the last three or four years. We have seen it introduced on two or three occasions at fancy fairs and charity bazaars, at which it has proved a great attraction.

A regular printed catalogue is got up, containing apparently the names of a collection of pictures or sculpture, each object duly numbered, and with the name of the artist appended. In some instances the name of a (supposed) picture is followed by an appropriate quotation in poetry or prose, after the orthodox fashion of the American Academy and other galleries. We append, by way of illustration, a selection from the catalogue of a collection which has met with great success:

Exhibition of the Works of Living Artists
CATALOGUE.

Part I.
WORKS OF ART.

1. Horse FairAfter Rosa Bonheur.
2. A Brush with a Cutter off DealCarpenter.
3. Caught in Squall off YarmouthFisher.
4. The Last of poor Dog TrayBarker.
5. “He will return, I know he will” Lent by the Trustees of the Parish.
6. The Midnight HourC. Lock.
7. Heroes of WaterlooSchumacher.
8. True to the CoreC. Odling.
9. “Spring, Spring, Beautiful Spring!”Mayne.
10. “Tears, Idle Tears”Strong.
11. The Midnight AssassinF. Sharpe.
12. The Dripping WellT. Inman.
13. Family JarsPotter.
14. Never Too Late to MendS. Titch
15. Past HealingKöbler.
16. The First SorrowSmalchild.
17. SavedS. Kinflint.
18. Lost.
19. First LoveSweet.
20. The Death of the CamelAfter Goodall.
21. His First CigarA. Young.
22. A Good Fellow GoneM. I. Slade.
23. Portrait of a GentlemanAnonymous.
24. Portrait of a LadyAnonymous.
25. Our ChurchwardensScrew.
26. Portraits of the Reigning Sovereigns of EuropeG. P. O.
[Taken by special order.]
27. Waifs of OceanFish.
“Strange things come up to look at us,
The monsters of the deep.”
28. The Last ManUnknown.
29. Contribution from the celebrated Sheepshanks CollectionButcher.
30. The Light of Other DaysDimm.
31. The Meet of Her Majesty’s HoundsPratt.
32. Water Scene

“And I hear

Those waters rolling from the mountain springs

With a sweet inland murmur.”

33. The Maiden’s JoyBachelor.
34. The FallAdam.
35. Motherhood

“She laid it where the sunbeams fall

Unscanned upon the broken wall,

Without a tear, without a groan

She laid it near a mighty stone

Which some rude swain had haply cast

Thither in sport, long ages past,—

There in its cool and quiet bed

She set her burden down and fled;

Nor flung, all eager to escape,

One glance upon the perfect shape

That lay, still warm and fresh and fair,

But motionless and soundless there.”

C. S. Calverley.

36. A Friendly Party on Hampstead HeathMoke.
37. Borrowed PlumesWigg.
38. Out for the NightAnonymous.
39. Something to AdoreAnonymous.
40. The Wearied GrinderMayne Force.
“Change and decay in all around I see.”
41. RepentanceG. Templar.
42. Maggie’s SecretRossetter.
43. Somebody’s LuggageS. Canty.
44. EusebiusB. Linkers.
45. Happy ChildhoodWackford Squeers.
46. Not such a Fool as he looksThe Exhibitor.

Part II
Curiosities

47. A choice Collection of Old China.

48. A fine Specimen of Local Quartz discovered inthe Possession of a Workman during theBuilding of the New Town Hall.

49. The Skull of the Last of the Mohicans.
50. A Marble Group.
51. Bust.
52. The Puzzle.
53. The Instantaneous Kid Reviver.
54. The Earnest Entreaty.

Explanation.