Word: collectionitis
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THE set of Turner's Liber Studiorum (sixty-eight plates) in the Gray Collection has been placed in the stand for engravings in Gore Hall, and there are also to be seen there eight pieces privately printed last year by Mr. Seymour-Haden, from plates found in Turner's house...
WERE we not guilty of this very fault, we should, to begin with, say a word against the haste with which most of the reports of the Montpensier collection seem to have been written; but perhaps it is well to indicate, rather roughly at first, those pictures that seem to...
For the rest, nothing good can be said, and the feeling of disappointment that arises on looking at these pictures of the Montpensier collection can hardly be dissipated by a careful study of even the best of them.
WE invite the attention of our readers to the advertisement, in another column, of vacancies in the Customs' Service of China. We are informed by Mr. Drew that since 1860 the Chinese government has intrusted the collection of its revenue from foreign trade to a department officered by foreigners. Its...
That a private library may give full enjoyment, the books composing it should not be bought for show or to lie forever unopened, but because each supplies a want, fills its own place in our circle of silent, thoughtful friends. Such a library can neither be purchased at wholesale nor...