Show MORGANS MORGAN'S ART PURCHASES J J. I P. P Morgan continues to lo purchase works oiS of oi S art lt His us lute late at purchases include the manuscripts manuscript If f ten tell of Sir Walter Valter Scotts Scott's s 's novels no the manuscript U ol or Thackeray's Vanity Fair Dickens Dickens' Christmas Christ Christ- was mas Carol masterpieces of Bronte George Gcorge Sand Sana Reade L Lytton and Zola the originals of Horace letters notebooks or of Shelley letters of ci Napo Napoleon eon writings of Dr DI J Johnson and D Dean Swift the original manuscripts of B Byrons Byron's Ton s 's Corsair ol or olLy Ly Lytton's Items Item's Lust Last Da Days s 's of Pompeii aid book 1 of f Milton's ilton's Paradise Lost According to the thc London London Lon Lon- don Graphic sonic some of his purchases are arc as follows A set of Aldines a Caxton the studded shRilled ded with Evangelia bound in beaten gold gems the Syston Park Saltor the manuscript of RUskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture Ar AI the thc manuscript of Holmes Holmes' Autocrat at ut the Breakfast Table a set ct of Dickens an al old t I I by br the thc m Codex described d das as the grandest book ever m printed a and Mr rr Morris Morris' orr s' s entire library of df O hooks books s J g thirty six for about one million pounds sterling lh That t too is all right They in ill time became at U 1 least indirectly the property of the thc Am American people peo peo- pie pIc for there is no law of pr primogeniture in art aid md literature and J. J P. P Morgan cannot cannot bu buy exemption cx- cx emption for himself After a while he hc will ill go to tom m meet inet et Harriman and old Cornelius Vanderbilt an and l Russell S ge and Gould and the others and he lie will vill ill h have c t to leae his liis treasures behind But how times i change Thackeray eray sought h in jI ril for a publisher for Vanity Fair and finally had to to to- publish it at his own expense when Scott rotc those those novels novels he was fighting off death in ina it i mighty struggle to pay his debts and the truth is clear that thai what one generation rejects reject th the next lext generation makes mal a shrine of and arni the thc funeral pyre of one age becomes an altar for the next I |