have just held a very interesting meeting to elect a new President in the place of the Into Sir John Gilbert. The R.W.S., as the older society, takes precedence of the Royal Institute, and its. President is therefore the recognised first representative of water-colour art in this country. 'The appointment is for life, and almost cor-taitly brings a knighthood. 'The man who, by distinction in the art and by past services to the Society, had the best claim to the honour was' undoubtedly Mr. Hubert Herkomer. But, unfortunately, Mr. BHerkomer is not an Englishman, though he has spent the greater part of his life in England. He was born in Germany, educated in America, and naturalised as an Englishman. But' he wanted to marry his deceased wife's sister, and an lated law forbidding him to do so in this country he resumed his German nationality. It must be admitted, too, that some of Mr. Herkomer's colleagues regard rather jealously' this admirable Crichton who is artist, composer, musician, drama-fist, poet, and man of letters. Anyhow the result of the first election was that Mr. Herkomer and Mr., Waterlow, A.R.A., received an exactly equal number of votes. Mr. Herkomer, as Vice-President, was in' election with a casting vote in his own them. uliprecedetited in the history of the Society.
But he refrained, and on @ second vote Mr. Waterlow was elected by a majority of one.
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