10. After bids have been received, and before the award, bidders should not be allowed to amend their estimates.
[The editors cannot pay attention to demands of correspondents who forget to give their names and addresses as guaranty of good faith; nor do they hold themselves responsible for opinions expressed by their correspondents.]
BARYE’S ADMIRER.
New York, N.Y., December 28, 1889.
To the Editors of the American Architect:—
Dear Sirs,—I have just seen a letter from “Anglo-American” in your issue of December 14, in which he calls for the name of the English artist who said concerning the French sculptor, Barye: “Had he been born in Great Britain, we would have had a group by Barye in every square in London.”
Théophile Silvestre reports this remark as if uttered in his presence. He says (1856) that the speaker was Mr. Herbert, an artist of distinction. Probably this was Arthur J. Herbert. Your correspondent takes the remark perhaps too literally, when it merely meant to express admiration through a slight exaggeration. Mr. Herbert would have been content to see a few squares only decorated with groups by an English equivalent of Barye, had one existed.