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If Any Reader Has An Autograph Of Button Gwinnett, Who

was born in Gloucester in 1735 and was killed in a duel at Savannah in 1777, let him treasure it above rubies. For this reckless: fellow wag one of the fifty-six American......

Last Week Messrs. Christie Achieved A New Record For A

day's sale at £192,451, and showed that the prices for pictures that collectors really wat are still mounting up. In the small but very choice collection of the late James Ross......

Country Air For Poor Children

KINDLY folk, as they see their children romping in the hay- fields or on the beach at this time of year, often think of the poor mites in city shuns and wish that they too could......

The Dispersal Of The Great Holford Collections At...

and Westonbirt has begun this week. On Tuesday Messrs. Sotheby sold the superb mediaeval miniatures which were collected by R. S. Holford—the patron of Alfred Stevens —early in......