Sir Joseph Duveen has added magnificently to the many national
benefactions which stand in his family's name. He has offered to bear the cost of the immediate extension of the art galleries emphatically recommended in the Interim Report of the Royal Commission. He had already promised to build a new gallery for Italian art at the National Gallery, and to pay for urgently needed reconstruction at the Tate Gallery. These promises he now confirms, and adds offers of a new gallery at the Tate for foreign sculpture, a new wing for the National Portrait Gallery, and a new setting for the Elgin Marbles and the Nereid statues in the British Museum. He makes " one proviso "—that the recommendations of the Royal Commission in the domain of literature and science shall be put into effect with money from other sources.
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