STORY PICTURES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13101, 14 June 1913, Page 10

STORY PICTURES.

; LONDON, May 3. Society turned out m full strength for ■a ''private view- yesterday' of the one 'hundred and forty-fifth exhibition of the Royal Academy. One always hears that, like Punch, it is not so good as it used to be.

' Tt 'is true that there is no picture of epic grandeur or deep lyric emotion. There is little indication 'of -enterprise or a desire for achievement. There is little 'or" nothing about the general unrest of the present century and no representations of the triumphs of science and the Magnificence* of modern industry. ', ' > There also seems to be a fair justification that thei' younger men appear to be "somewhati lacking m ambition and they !care too much for facile display and conventional''technique. A few -of the pictures indeed are "attractive and it is an interesting, show, "typically English both m its ''pleasing''. 'portraits aiid charming landscape as well as m the .occasional attempts to break away from the English Academy traditions. Indeed, somo of the attempts are perhaps more English tlKin. ever. ': Thei-e are, of course, ja great many 'story pictures" for the ydpar'-^reat public that from Monday on will stream through the galleries. "The,. Sick Child," "The Young Mother and Father" and the "Foreclosed Mortgage" are wejl represented .and well -done.

Sargent has no portraits this year, but he has four Spanish subjects, "In the Hospital at Granada," which are even^moro commanding than usual. He also has a wonderful interior m the "Weavers." It shows the workers at a loom m sombre darkness, which is penetrated hero and there by wonderful splashes of brilliant sunshine .