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R Madison Sq. Intended for ? ARGUS "O wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see oursel's as ithers see us. ARGUS PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Establishes: Paris 1879 O, SPENGLER, M'gr. Cable Address: "ARGUSCLIP" NEW YORK. 352 Third Avenue, New York. SCRAPBOOK MAKING A SPECIALITY for memorial or business purposes TERMS $35 for 1,000 clippings $20 for 500 clippings $11 for 250 clippings $5 for 100 clippings Special rates for yearly contracts. NEW YORK Clipping from..................................................... Address of Paper 18 OCTOBER 1908....... Date........................................................................ Back Numbers of N. Y. City dailies for Sale. "MNEMOSYNE - THE LAMP of MEMORY" by ROSETTI. COURTESY OF THE BLAKESLEE GALLERIES. OBVIOUSLY Europe still is the treasure house of old masters. Their frequency of acquisition by American collectors is more apparent than real, the impression frequently being due to the enterprise of American newspapers in obtaining and publishing the facts. This shows in itself that the securing by an American of a genuinely great example of early art still is regarded as an "event." Probably there are in Europe private houses, to say nothing of the public galleries, any one of which contains more great paintings by old masters than are to be found in all the museums and private collections of this country put together. An encouraging circumstance, however, is to be noted. In their acquisitions of old masters American collectors are being guided by an ever higher standard. When, for example, Mr. P. A. B. Widener secured three and Mr. Henry C. Frick one of the Cattaneo Van Dycks from Genoa Europe lost and America gained a corresponding number of art treasures. There was genuine reason for the excitement caused in the art world, the story of which, however, has been told too recently to require repetition. An American art firm, Messrs. Knoedler & Co., was an important factor in rediscovering these pictures