ART GALLERY. 77 
The Autumn Exhibition was open during 91 days and 59 evenings, 
from 23rd September, 1911, to 6th January, 1912. The catalogue 
comprised 2,540 items, as against 2,445 in 1910, and the collection 
was similar in plan to that of 1910, including amongst its special 
features a room devoted to Continental art, a complete exhibition of 
works (102 in number) by members of the Royal. Society of 
Miniature Painters, a very important black and white section, 
including lithographs by members of the Senefelder Club, and 
collective exhibitions of works by members of the Pastel Society 
and the Society of Graver-Printers in Colour. 
The Continental Section, which was shown in Room B, included a 
special exhibit of Swedish pictures, 21 in number, which with 28 
etchings, etc., formed a collection representative of the art of the 
day in that country. For this interesting novelty we were indebted 
to the kind co-operation of Mr. H. D. Roberts, Director of the 
Public Library, Museums, and Fine Art Galleries, Brighton; the 
pictures being selected from those at the Swedish Exhibition held 
during the earlier mouths of the year at the Brighton Gallery. 
A special exhibition of paintings by Mr. T. E. Mostyn, of 27 items, 
which was arranged in Room 4, proved a most attractive novelty. 
This innovation, which was strenuously opposed and adversely 
criticised by a number of those connected with the exhibition, and 
especially by the professional members of the Hanging Committee, 
showed emphatically the desirability of getting away as far as 
possible in future exhibitions from the indefinite, miscellaneous 
character, which has become a tradition. 
The Subscription Banquet at the opening of the exhibition, 
instituted in 1909, was repeated on 21st September with great 
success, there being 110 ladies and gentlemen present, including the 
Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress of Liverpool, the Lord Mayor 
and the Lady Mayoress of Manchester, Sir W. H. Lever, Bart., 
Mr. J. Y. Dawbarn, M.A. (President of the Liverpool Academy), 
and Mr. E. A. Hornel. 
