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sombre poster to advertise Verdi's "Otello." At the same time, the Italian posters are not of a very distinctive type, nor does Italian taste concerning them appear to be very fastidious. The crude, enormous, and vulgar advertisements for Buffalo Bill's exhibition created quite a sensation in Rome when that redoubtable personage deigned to visit the most august of European capitals. The modern Romans forgot their Michael Angelo in the ecstasy induced by the latest enormity of the American colour printer. It may be noted that some of the posters done for the Italian railway companies are bright and gay as an Italian summer itself. The pictorial poster would not seem to have taken a great hold on Russia, nor, judging from a comparatively recent visit, has it made much headway in Scandinavia. In Holland, the present artistic vitality and enterprise of which are at once so astonishing and gratifying, one meets with very few posters of conspicuous merit. In Belgium, on the other hand, there are signs that the poster movement has affected not a few artists of distinction. The placard by Evenepoel, designed to advertise a publication in connection with the Antwerp Exhibition, is excellent in colour and pattern and most decidedly original, owing very little to any foreign examples. Duyck's "Cortège des Fleurs (Ville de Bruxelles)" is decorative and pleasing. This artist has also designed another placard to advertise Spa (Ferme de