The Royal Academy Banquet was held on Saturday. Prince Arthur
of Connaught, who replied for the Royal Family, spoke from personal observation of the success of the British section at the International Exhibition at Rome, in which the British school was worthily represented. Lord Haldane, for the Army, quoted the speech of Pericles, in which he told the Athenians not to lose heart " because you do not see your Army at the moment at the strength of your possible opponents. The earth has two constituents, land and sea, and, situated as Athens is, so long as you command the sea you command the world." What was true of Athens, Lord Haldane continued, was true, perhaps, even more of us. The Prime Minister regretted that there was no presentation of any of his own colleagues at the Academy, and without entering on any detailed criticism, judiciously commended the variety and range of British art shown in the Exhibition.
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