Show V FOREIGN ART V Great Greaf Britain and ana the continent contine t a aro arc 10 becoming much worried over the transfer of so many works of or art to to America Time The London Times rimes has been giving especial prominence to a series of special articles in which the writer thinks that a national commission should be appointed to hunt out and register all considerable works of art in the tho kingdom kingdom kingdom king king- dom and to classify them into three divisions like good inferior and bad It should be absolutely forbidden to export any works of the best class or even evento to sell them at home except under the ap ap- ap- ap pro of the government that in regard to works of the other two classes leave must be asked before before before be be- fore selling them abroad and the state if it chooses to buy them at a fair price should have the option of so doing That sounds very strange to Come tome from old England It is because of the great art losses losse su suffered suf suf- by England during the last quarter of a century Then the time writer gives a list of the wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- art works which have been sent to Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many and anu the tho United States in the last tw twenty five five nty-five years V V We Ve say it sounds extraordinary in the tho Times because one of the claims of bf f Englishmen is that any Englishman may lUay do what he lie pleases with what is his own and we do not believe that the time English people would stand any l law w that would forbid them selling a picture for export except that the time government in all those cases would buy the time work at the same price It sounds th the more singular because old England England England Eng Eng- land has been robbing the world for a thousand years wherever it has made a conquest it has done as as Napoleon did on the continent it it has lIaS picked up the most precious works of or art rt and sent them home All the tho same we think our our country ought to tomake tomake tomake make swift arrangements to have llave its own art school and amid its own national art gallery so that a hundred years ears hence it will n nt t be bo necessary to go abroad for anything beautiful in art but on the theother theother theother other hand the national taste and national execution execution tion tiomi will be so enlightened that we can manufacture manufacture ture our own works of f art and have enough left to supply the outside world |