‘BLACKBERRY GATHERERS,” etched from a picture by George Heming Mason, by F. M. Regamey, belongs to the English period of the painter’s mature work. In its sensitive composition, the fine drawing of the tree stems, and the harmonies of the dusky autumnal colouring, it is a representative little picture. The figures have the peculiar and charming curve which became almost a mannerism in his rendering of village girlhood; and the subject also is characteristic—a slight and, as it were, accidental passage of nature in that district of Staffordshire from which his fancy never strayed in his later years. Nothing assuredly is more pleasant than the combination of an apprehension and a fastidiotisness in composition which rival those of Poussin, with a modern humility and modesty in the motive and choice of scene. Mason was master of this combination ; his fragment of a rough hill-side and spare trees are treated with the classic feeling which the older school would have devoted to a far more conventional landscape.