And when he let me visit him last week he told me why, said a "Sunday Express" representative:—"Far from having too much room," said this man with the piercing brown eyes, I want much more than I have, I am still buying, chiefly bedroom Suites and gold plate. The -bedroom suites will take up a lot of room. And as we climbed up the richly carpeted staircases from floor to floor I was amazed at the profusion of his collection.
Costly antiques are crowded into spare bedrooms, about fifty silken Chinese kakemonos (rolled paintings) worth hundreds of pounds are stacked away in a cupboard, gold and silver works of art are heaped on beds, In forty-eight hours the wonder hóuse of Beaufort-gardens could be made ready to receive a prince and his entourage.
They call all this my insanity, Mr, Nissim laughed. But there is method in my madness, if you call it such, Before I die I want to fill my house with a sufficient number of beautiful things so that I can take pride in bequeathing them all to the nation: My uncle and benefactor, Sir Jacob, gave so much of "his wealth to charity. It is fitting that 1 should make a gift of the treasures I have been able to buy with the
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