June the twenty: il-important fixed for the Coronation, now than five weeks off and already we have about two column= in a morning paper devoted to wh: ed "Coronation Items," dealing with proposed police regulations, which by the way seem inclined to he somewhat arb:- trary if one can judge from advance notes outsiders to. submit for the approbation of the hanging committee. It is stated that this year twenty thousand pictures were sent in, out of which only a possible seventeen hundred could be accepted. Of these twenty thousand of course the vast majority were the work of outsiders, and it is stated that some of these works are sent in regularly year after year and are occasionally hung after having been reject d for several years in succession, the argiment being that. in previous years they have never even bren before the hanging committee. This may or may not be true, but there seems to be a fairly general concensus of opinion among those who air the subject." So far as I can gather their views on the subject that eight
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