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Curator by the energetic help of some ladies, several gardeners 

 and a number of school children. 



Special exhibitions ought, we are convinced, to be part of 

 the arrangements at all active museums. They enable a 

 curator to make fivefold use of his space, and thus to bring 

 under notice innumerable objects which would otherwise 

 remain hidden away or unobserved. They go far to obviate 

 the evil of overcrowding. We have had at Haslemere this 

 summer: (i) An exhibition of Samplers and Needlework; (2) 

 one of Fungi ; (3) one of Autumn Leaves ; (4) one of Portraits 

 illustrating French History. Others are in preparation ; of 

 Mosses for the winter ; of Portraits illustrating Physiognomy 

 and Biography and other subjects- Keeping one room or 

 suite of rooms for such exhibitions, it might perhaps be 

 found convenient to allow a month for each, and thus keep 

 up a constant change. 



Those who do not visit the Exhibition of Jewish Art and 

 Antiquities now open in the Whitechapel Art Gallery, 

 will miss an educational opportunity of much interest. In 

 addition to a large display of important documents, old books 

 and articles of ceremonial worship of especial interest to the 

 Race and the professed Bibliologist, there is much to claim 

 the attention of the more general student. The paintings, 

 perhaps, stand first, for the collection comprises some of 

 Israels' masterpieces. The Student of Physiognomy and of 

 race-character, has a treat in the numerous portraits, many of 

 them excellent. It is impossible to miss the main traits of 

 the Hebrew face, and at the same time to note that in many 

 instances it needs a trained eye to detect them. It is to be 

 hoped that a similar exhibition may be organised at a future 

 time, and that a yet larger collection of portraits may be got 

 together. Not only engravings, but photographs should be 

 displayed. 



Bearing upon the question of Goethe's race (see p. 260), we 

 may note that there is a profile portrait of Moses Mendelssohn 

 (the philosopher, not the composer) in the Jewish exhibition, 



