most noteworthy are those by Columbano, Room 110, winner of the grand
prize at St. Louis. The four rooms show Portugal prolific of artists who
seek beauty in scenes of domesticity and the qrandeur of landscapes.

Argentina.--It is interesting to note that the painters of Portugal
show more characteristics in common with those of South America and the
Philippines than with their European neighbors. Their execution is more
tamed than that of the Filipino painters, their style more settled than
that of the Argentine. That is not to the discredit of the Argentinos,
who, though a new people, have accomplished much that deserves praise.
Their exhibit, in Room 112, is important in its showing of the progress
of art in so new a country, and it is said to be representative. The
artists whose works are shown are almost all young men, a fact which, in
connection with their performance, proclaims that Argentina will do
something free and original in the future. Three pictures by Antonio
Alice, Nos. 1, 2, and 3, have been awarded the medal of honor. They bear
witness to Alice's great versatility. Jorge Bermudez' three figure
studies (gold medal) are striking. No. 5, "The Daughter of the
Hacienda," is wrongly entitled in the official catalog "The Young
Landlady." Others in the collection suffer in the same way, as Coppini's
"The Old Station" (20), which is catalogued as "The Old Stall." Some of
the Argentino landscapes are striking expositions of the spirit of the
pampas, particularly Lavecchia's "Near Twilight" (35). As a whole, the
paintings are significant of the country of their painters, a truly
worthy quality. The sculpture in this room, particularly "Increase and
Multiply" (75), by Pedro Zonza Briano (medal of honor), and a splendid
Indian portrait (32), by Alberto Lagos (gold medal), is admirable.

The International Room, No. 108, on the east wall between Sweden,
Holland and Portugal, contains but a small portion of the foreign