ABSTRACT
685 Interesting as is this Fourth Exhibition—one which any man may visit with pleasure, and without those references to “sex” W’Iiich are always so snany covert assumptions of superiority—it still imperfectly represents the state of female art and amateurship in this country. Some of our laiown lady painters exhibit ; but more are absent : to name merely four without any research—Miss Steers, JMiss Setchel, Miss Corbaux, Mrs. A. A. Watts. Nor can we be contented with a muster of amateurs which does not include Mrs. Bridg-jnan Simpson, Mrs. Burr, Miss Lucetta Barker, and some of those delicate designers only known by their initials,—whose illustrations of Iiome-books disclose a purityand grace beyond the achievement of most masculine fingers. It will be a good time, too, when the Ladies’ Committee can dispense with copies. The skill of the sisterhood in reproduction demands no new praise or advertisement ; and the mixture of what is original with wliat is imitative has not a happy effect.
