Bound for camp to participate in the. most extensive war manoeuvres in Brita peacetime history, this company of the Women's Territorial Auziliary Corps was pictured just before entraining at Waterloo Station.
They were to take the field with more there 31,000 fighting men in exercises closely approximating wartime conditions. over: 2,000 works of art, this gives pretty poor idea of an' artist's life. As with musie, literature and arch-acture, a favoured few make big fortunes while the herd scramble for But contrast the prices paid even to a popular portrait painter—Sargent, for instance, used to charge 2,000 guineas—with those that old masters command. The important sales at Christie's and Sotheby's are now over, and for pictures, objets art, books and MSS no less than to know better," lovers of pictures might well be kinder to the moderns. Years ago I paid two guineas for a water-colour of the King's Bedroom at Knole, and it has repaid that humble sum a hundred times in the pleasure it has given me.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.