The Royal Academy closes this week, and it is noted with satistac~ tion that nearly 200 pictures have been sold, for a total of between 7000 and 8000 gulness. But considering that the Academy contains beginning of the year. It only shows once more that however much people are tightening their purse strings, good stuff will always' sell.~ All the same some of the prices paid really seem fantastic. The £6405 pald for Whistler's "At the Piano" " (which the Paris Salon rejected) I mentioned at the time; with this may be mentioned a small portrait of the Spanish actress Zarate by Goya which fetched £6,800, against a previous maximum of £3,465; and two landscapes by Cézanne and Van Gogh sold respectively for £4200 and £4,000. One cannot help wondering whether they will ever fetch such prices again, And delightful as the old masters are, though it has been said of some that "if not as old as they pretend to be they are at least old enough minded one of the Genii in "The Brass Bottle" rhapsodizing over the lady he intends as a bride for Frank, "when she looketh askance she put teth the wild kine to shame." However, all the girls speak perfect, English and have plenty to say for themselves. They were just in time to sce the King and Queen, and of course did the usual sights, a debate in Parliament, the Law Courts, and Madame Tussaud's, But what really impressed them was the crimson blazers worn by a party of Canadian girls also visiting London, This gay fashion they are resolved to introduce in Angora and Istanbul These international visitations are all the rage nowadays. 'The British 'Council, which has just been entertaining' a party of Portuguese Journalists "on lavish lines, 1s preparing to receive a tribe of foreign lower, Botiilons are but one detail in the many prescriptions "sents fom Parla, where all the fashion writers are now gathered, picking up fore-fast for the autumn, So many-and Garious are these that it would. be Impossible to mention them all, But one oF two broad indications may be noted Thus the guiding motif is to be ay feminine as possible, Indeed for young gins, of the small and dewy ordos, conbseuitle bonnets tied under the chin, such as their grandmothers wore ata similar age, and. mus
Strongly recommended, 'Special little ietened io de cent of to aren are mme aprons are designed for when young Miss, helps her mother ata dany, and for Jewellery a" single Stone' slung on a black ribbon round ihe neck, "This can be added to year by year and thus a valuable necklace neetmulated, Bright scarves. complete the Degas-ike effect, mall this one may see an unconscious revolt against the "prevalent milllarizing of women, What with fovusellated "WAACS. and. WRENS, Ausliney Terriers and Flying Corps fils, there is so. much donning of tniférms and springing to. attention, that in off duly hours the tendency must be fo. get_ as far away. from masculine similitudes as possible, Queen Elizabeth, Fashion
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