The best American magazines are wonderful in their
quality and range, and we have nothing to set beside them. It is
astonishing to think how different, in the same country, daily and
monthly journalism can be. Omitting the monthly reviews,
_Blackwood_ is, I take it, our finest monthly miscellany; and all
of _Blackwood_ could easily and naturally be absorbed in one of the
American magazines and be illustrated into the bargain, and still leave
room for much more. And the whole would cost less! Why England is so
poorly and pettily served in the matter of monthly magazines is
something of a mystery; but part of the cause is the rivalry of the
papers, and part the smallness of our population. But I shall always
hold that we deserve more good magazines than we have now.
TREASURES OF ART
I was fortunate in being in New York when the Metropolitan Museum
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its birth, for I was therefore
able to enjoy not only its normal treasures but such others as had been
borrowed for birthday presents, which means that I saw Mrs. H. E.
Huntington's Vermeer, as well as the supreme Marquand example of that
master; more than the regular wealth of Rembrandts, Manet's "Still
Life," Gauguin's "Women by the River," El Greco's "View of Toledo,"
Franz Hals' big jovial Dutchman from Mr. Harry Goldman's walls, and
Bellini's "Bacchanale"--to say nothing of the lace in galleries 18 and
19, Mr.
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