Cecil King’s delightful _Regatta Day at Appledore_ (p. 98) has to do with the lighter side of sea life, and his _H.M.S. “Wolsey”_ (p. 97) with matters much more serious. The _Regatta Day_, as its subject befits, is a lively and brightly treated study, full of incident, and attractively irresponsible in composition. It has both power and originality, and it puts beyond question his capabilities as a draughtsman because it presents a difficult problem in perspective which he has solved most happily. But much of its charm comes from the holiday spirit in which it is conceived and carried out. The _H.M.S. “Wolsey”_ is more sober, and conveys well the idea of the grim simplicity of the practical fighting machine built for use, not ornament. Norman Wilkinson is a versatile artist who does many things well, and who yields to no one at the present time in knowledge of the pictorial chances which the sea provides. He is shown here under more than one aspect--as a painter of interesting realities in his panoramic _Plymouth Harbour_ (p. 100), as a very acute student of wave movement in _Up Channel_ (p. 103) and _The Wave_ (p. 101), and as a maker of rapid and suggestive notes in his sketch _Etretat_ (p. 99). Of these examples the most arresting in many ways is _The Wave_; it has such an unusual amount of vitality, it is so seriously observed and yet so free and unlaboured, and it is so correct not only in action but also in matters of lighting and reflection and of colour variation as well. This is an instance of the happy alliance of the science and the art of marine painting to bring about a perfectly balanced result. _Windbound_ (p. 104), by Hely Smith, and _The Needles_ (p. 107), by Charles Pears, are inshore studies, notes of incidents which, though they are undramatic, lend themselves well to the painters’ purposes. _The Needles_, with its sense of breeziness and of the rough-and-tumble of a tide-race, is a picture that excites a distinctly pleasurable emotion, so much is there in it of the joy of living when the sun shines brightly and the wind blows briskly and the sea is sparkling and full of colour. The other two pictures by Charles Pears, _The Examination_ (p. 106) and _The Yacht Race_ (p. 105), make a contrast of grave and gay--a contrast between the dark moments of war and the happy times of peace.