It was announced last week that Sir Charles Holmes will
retire from the Directorship of the National Gallery at the end of this year but will remain a trustee. He has seen great changes in the greatest gallery in the world during his twelve years of direction. He would be the first to express gratitude for the many acquisitions of enormous importance ; the hanging of the pictures now not only shows them better but makes the Gallery a more intelligent teacher of the theories and history of art. Earlier he was Slade Professor at Oxford and then Keeper of the National Portrait Gallery. We hope that he will continue to paint and to write admirable books on art during a long leisure. He will be succeeded by Mr. Augustus Daniel, who is already a trustee whose very wide learning in all schools of painting is recognized by all modern students. He worked at one time in the British School of Rome.
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