XI - PASSAGES FROM EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, ETC.

Summary

[Catalogue of a Collection of Studies in Oil of The English Lake Country, by the Hon. Stephen Coleridge, M.A., June 1891. London: The Dowdeswell Galleries, 160 New Bond Street. At p. 5 of the Introduction the writer “A. M.” says: “As early as 1884 Mr. Ruskin, who saw some of these studies, wrote what the artist, in a letter to a friend, calls “words of kindly instruction’”:—]

“Fix your mind on skies, and give up everything for them at present —no study will reward you more, nor is any in so completely elementary a state. Give your young energy to it, and you will soon have wonderful things to tell and show the world. Wait quietly for calm, clear weather, quiet clouds, and distant ones, when they come, and read up all that is known of them, and go on.”

SUTTON PALMER'S DRAWINGS (1886)

The drawings are entirely praiseworthy, and in a kind which needs no praise from me, except the attestation that every scene is absolutely true to scale and form.

Mr. Sutton Palmer's sunshiny temper merits, better than mine, Carlyle's epithet—for me. He is really an “Ethereal” Palmer.

I feel myself a little dull for want of cottages,—not to say shelterless for want of inns,—and I do think we ought to have had some grimmer crags, with possibilities of tumble off—or losing one's way.