A Straight Tip
“Ne pas confondre intelligence avec gendarmes”—but surely, dear Atlas, when the art critic of the Times, suffering possibly from chronic catarrh, is wafted The World, May 18, 1881. in at the Grosvenor without guide or compass, and cannot by mere sense of smell distinguish between oil and water colour, he ought, like Mark Twain, “to inquire.”
Had he asked the guardian or the fireman in the gallery, either might have told him not to say that one of the chief interests of Mr. Herkomer’s large water-colour drawing of Mr. Ruskin “attaches to it as being the first oil portrait we have ever seen of our great art critic”! Adieu.