MAXIMS FOR THE BAR. No. III.
"Never allow the Judge to bully you. On the contrary, be firm with him."
THE OLD BOND-STREET GALLERIES.
Why they are called the Old Bond-Street Galleries, when there is so much that is new to be seen there, it is impossible to say. Why not call it the New Gallery? Perhaps those trusty Tudors—who are rather more than two doors off—Messrs. Comyns Carr and Hallé, might object, and, even then, only half the truth would be told. Let us ag-gravate them, and call it the Ag-New Gallery at once! Unless it would be considered an ag-rarian outrage, it would be impossible to give it a better ag-nomen. Ha! ha! No matter what you call it, so long as you call and see the collection of Water-colours. There is a vastly good "Pygmalion and Galatea," by our own John Tenniel; there are some tender Idyls, by Frederick Walker, a delicious "Reverie," by Leslie, a delightful "Pet," by E. K. Johnson, wondrous Landscapes, by Birket Foster, a riverain poem, by C. J. Lewis, and Dutch Symphonies, by Wilfrid Ball. Sir John Gilbert, T. S. Cooper, and F. Dicksee, are well represented; and among the earlier Water-colour Masters we may find such distinguished names as J. M. W. Turner, P. de Wint, Copley Fielding, and David Cox. There are lots of others, and, if you are left to browse amid nearly three hundred excellent pictures, you ought to enjoy yourself very much indeed, and find your mind so much improved when you come out, that you will think it belongs to somebody else. In spite then of the carping of Carr, and the hallucinations of Hallé, we declare this to be the Ag-New Gallery.
"La Nona."—Is the new malady fact or fiction? Don't know, but anyhow it's your "Grandmother."
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