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Excerpt from The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 10: October, 1906 to March, 1907 Now mere bulk, as we have pointed out, is an excellent thing in certain places - such as a big central museum, where the number and value ofthe exhibits make for prestige - but few provincial galleries can ever be in the position of metropolitan ones. They have seldom the nucleus of a great private collection, and still more rarely have they money to buy the finest things. Now where only moderate means are forthcoming, quantity, especially in these days, can only be got at the expense of quality, and the sum of money which might perhaps buy a single good picture is frittered away upon a number of poor ones. The Walker Art Gallery at Liver pool some years ago would have served as an example of this sort of mistake if com pared with the smaller but more carefully picked collections in other cities of the same size. It possessed one or two master pieces, it is true, but they were almost lost in a crowd of second-rate things, which might possibly amuse the public, but which could not fail also to distract its attention and to some extent spoil its taste for good work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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