Gowans’s Colour Prints i 
In Germany during the last tew years attempts } 
have been made by some enterprising publishers to 
raise the standard of artistic taste of ordinary people 
with little money to spend in pictures, by issuing 
colour prints for wall-decoration, specially painted 
by the best artists in the country, at very cheap 
prices. These attempts have been attended with 
great success, and many hundreds of such prints can 
now be had. Messrs. Gowans & Gray have gone 
a step further still, and they have now issued the 
first three of a similar specially-painted series of 
pictures, I4"x lO^ in size, which are sold in neat 
brown or white paper frames, ready to hang on the 
v)ail, at the unprecedented price of One Shilling^ 
each ; post free, 1/4. 
THE TITLES or THE THREE ISSUED ARE 
No I. “ MY POOR DOG TRAY,” by Charles Pears. 
No. 2. “APPLE BLOSSOM,” by Jessie M. King. 
No. 3. “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD,” 
by Stephen Reid 
They arc all artistic enough to hang in any 
room, no matter how luxurious, and should supersede 
those oil-colour daubs and grocer’s-calendar-picturcs, 
which are so often to be seen hung up in British 
houses, where everything else, except the pictures, 
is in good taste. 
Gowans & Gray, Ltd., London and Glasgow >' 
