Show DISCOVERY OF A NEW TITIAN A puritanical policeman at Berne has rendered a service to posterity In a secondhand sec-ondhand furniture shop in one of those mediaeval and mysterious arcaded streets that slope towards the Aarbrucke the gendarme observed an obscure canvas and through the crust of dirt and smoke which had gathered on It he was just able to make out that it was nude A pagan I am sorry to say as Mr Pecksniff once remarked It was a recumbent womans figure her head rested on her right arm and above her hovered a Cupid Venus and Cupid were at once impounded by the seriousminded gendarme with the remark re-mark that the state did not allow Fran persons to be exposed without clothing in the open street The Frauperson attracted attention she was visited by the directors of the Kuntsmuseum and was bought for 50 francs by a Mr Otto Keller Then the goddess followed exactly the course oC action adopted by the real and original Venus centuries agoshe went to Paris to establish her reputation At Paris cleansed from the Incrusting dirt which covered it the picture came out in all the splendor of its beauty the harmony of outline and richness of hue which proclaimed pro-claimed the hand of the master The I experts have unanimously declared It a Venus couchee by Titian and a rich American of Chicago Mr Philip Armour has offered 200000 francs for this once despised de-spised Frauperson Pall Mall Gazette |