A. Munchausen,
Late Lance-Ensign, the Lincoln Longbowers.
"ENGLISH, YOU KNOW, QUITE ENGLISH."
Perhaps, the good old rule that, "You should never look a gift-horse in the mouth," cannot be so rigorously applied to gifts of pictures to the Nation as to other things. Nevertheless, Mr. Tate's munificent proffer of his Collection to the National Gallery, is surely too good a thing to be missed through matters of mere detail. Mr. Punch's view is—well, despite Touchstone's attack on "the very false gallop of verses," there are two things that come most insinuatingly in metre; offers of love, and of friendly advice:—
English Art no longer paints
Those "squint-eyed Byzantine saints"
Mr. Orrock so disparages.
Martyrdoms and Cana Marriages
Over-stock our great Art Gallery,