One of the most characteristic things about the average exhibition of water-colors is the feeling of mild disappointment or luke warm approbation which it engenders in the visitor. And he goes away with the thought that the pictures are rather nice--and promptly forgets them.

The collection of water-colors by Professor Arthur Pope, which is on view at Doll and Richard, 71 Newbury Street, Boston, is, however, no ordinary exhibition. Perhaps the first thing that strikes one on seeing it, is the blazingly daring use of brilliant color, that varies from the brightest crimson in the "Mountain Ash in the Great Gulf," to the cool greens and lavenders of some of the other pictures.

The second striking contrast between this and the average exhibition of its kind is the differences of style which are displayed by the individual pictures. There is a picture to suit every taste. From the careful almost miniature-like technique of the "Sorco River, North Conway," with its quiet backwater reflecting the overhanging trees--and with which, be it admitted, the Student Vagabond was strongly impressed--to the rather violent impressionism of such works like the "Pond in Pinkham Notch", from the grey two light haze of the "Tuilerics Gardens" and the "Place de la Concorde" to the brilliant yellow sunshine of the "Sandbank at Nawshon", there is a variety and freshness in execution which cannot fail to please any vagabond who is wise enough to take the trip into Boston to see the pictures before March 8. Such a one will come away a wiser man, for he will know that there is such a thing as an interesting exhibition of water colors.

Tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock in the Lecture Hall of the Boston Public Library, Professor Leo kich Lewis of Tufts College will give a lecture on Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with musical illustrations which will certainly be well worth the attendance of a student vagabond. Not only is Bethoven's Mass one of the greatest works of a supreme master, but it has also at present so to speak a nearer interest, since it is to be sung by the University Glee Club, and the Radcliffe Choral Society with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on March 22.