I do not pretend that books are everything.… Some day I may say some very hard things about people who keep their books so close before their eyes that they can not see God’s world, nor their fellow men and women. But books rightly used are society.—E. E. Hale, in “How to Do It.”
THE BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS.
BY CLARENCE COOK.
SECOND PAPER.
Before proceeding to describe the contents of the second floor of the Museum, I must say a few words about the School of Drawing and Painting which, for the present, has its home in the building.