Although It has only been open three days, the Scollish Ary Exhibition of Burlington House is already the tath of the town, Of Scottish painters it must be confessed we knew little, except Raeburn. Of Allan Ramsay, Jamieson, Geddes—whore portrait of -his mother ought to be far more famous than the familiar Whistler—Chalmers, Scott Lauder and. many more, most of us had never heard. And here are pictures which would honour any nation, alive in every touch and vith a certain uni versal distinction which sels them apart from their "opposite umbers" in every other national school.
Tt is interesting to try to imagine the' lives of these men and women whose vividly revealing portraits fill most of the walls. were $0 sublimely sure of "themselves "and their place in the world. No servant problems then, no murderous income-tax and death duties. Great people they were, but not to be afraid of,4 you minded your p's kindly and full"
Scottish humour, 'When one recalls that the Roy: shopkeepers combined to present King George on his Jubilee with a very' beautiful house and grounds all furnished complete one may imagine that they are' fairly numerous. Tt would be "interesting to. know the value of the goods which each one supplies to the King and Queen in 8 year. but probably the Keener of the Privy Purse and the Queen's Lord Chamberlain see that the balance kept fairly true.
As one goes about London one sees not a few arms of foreign royalties over shops, More than one is @ purveyor to the Emperor of Japan and the King of Moly. There are still to be soon warrants from the ex-King of Siam, and here and there 1 have feriers any less conscious of their own dignity, These peasants of Sir David Wilkie's dancing ina barn "The Penny Wedding" "(it is eternally to the credit of George IV that he Bought this picture), or the "Villaxe Politicians," knew exactly what due to and from. themselves dealing with others. In becoming afraid. 10 speak of upper and lower classes, we have have lost a lot
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