there is likewise on view an exhibition of special interest as the walls are covered with works of the late Sir E. Hume Jones. If proof were required of the painstaking caro of this truly great master it would be found in his wonderful picture ' Arthur in Avalon," commenced in 1880 and never finished. It is an enormous picture, 114X 21} feet and although one can seo there was more to do it must always be garded as the artist's mastorpioco, his life's work. I remember reading in the evidence in the celebrated ' Whistler" case that he considered two hours a very fair time to consume in painting a picture and £200 a very fair price for it when finished. Sir Edward Hume Jones thought eighteen years not long enough—but of course the results cannot be compared. Some of Mr. Whistler's work I admire very much but one can hardly accuse him of loving care, and that is the feeling one has about "Arthur in Avalon"—infinite tenderness and love. The dead Arthur is the central figure lying on a couch under a canopy of gilded bronze, around him are
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