Chatter that is not Always of Art Painters who are "hung" at the sionally with Revel Acideny should mie scrutinize their pictures.
It is possible that though they might retrieve scraps of wisdom from amongst the subdued chatter with which the galleries hum, they most certainly would discover food for quiet amusement. For a "Daily Chronicle" representative—who wandered through the rooms for two hours during one afternoon overheard a microscopic ' amount about art, but a lot about other matters, In one corner, indeed, there was a conspiracy to coerce a reealecitrant and absent father to purchase the youth of the family tennis racquets and balls. Apparently he objected upon the dual grounds of cost and quantity—maybe, also, he would have considered (but this is only conjecture) that the money were far better unvested in one of those glowing canvases before which the conspirators conspired. But the meeting considered that tennis-less "this term will be rotten," and carried without a dissentient that "Father simply must shell out!"
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