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HE latest sensation in the world of art is the discovery of several hitherto unknown pictures by Turner. It is in a double sense that they have been discovered, for although they have latterly lain concealed and forgotten in the storerooms of the National Gallery, London, they have in former times been submitted to committees of directors and successive boards of trustees, and pronounced," from their slightness of execution or their more or less wrecked condition," unfitted for exhibition.

It is now fifty-five years since Turner died and left his paintings to the nation. The legacy consisted of 362 pictures, 135 finished water-colors and no less than 1,757 studies in color with sketches innumer

able. These latter were the result of Turner's method of work, which included a most painstaking and minute study of nature. The story is told by one who knew Turner, that on one occasion when he and several other artists were in the country, they all planned to go out one morning to their respectively chosen subjects and compare results in the evening. Shortly after leaving the inn at which they were staying, they had to cross a bridge. Here Turner lagged behind, and eventually called to them to go on without him. At the end of the day the returning party found him still on the bridge, and as the result of his work he showed them numbers of studies and notes he had taken. They found that he had spent the whole day throwing pebbles into the water and noting the broken lights and shadows that resulted.

most learned and the most spiritual, or least material, of English poets, each in his own sphere.

That twenty-one paintings by such a man should cumber the underground premises of the National Gallery seems almost unbelievable, but such is the case. And the sight of them only makes the mystery deeper; for they have merely been washed, one or two of them relined and slightly varnished, and they hang in what is known as the Tate Gallery on the Thames Embankment, hailed with delight by the art critics, and viewed by a constant stream of people. Visitors to England this summer will therefore have the experience of seeing paintings by one of the greatest, if not, as many think, the greatest landscape painter, fresh and bril

the astonishing want of expert knowle which characterizes many painters. those prominent enough to be chose directors of a national art gallery. the other it emphasizes the change has come over English art in recent yea the "unfinished" paintings of fifty ye ago being the finished pictures of tod

These Turners in their freshness r purity come as a fresh revelation of artist's genius. Ruskin even could have dreamed of a greater triumph the master he worshiped than the c that fate has accorded him. The pietur seem, however, to vindicate Ruskin al and defend him from some of the belitt ment that is leveled at him, for the be that he admired in Turner is here befe The variety of Turner's subject

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