17 JUNE 1922, Page 23

We have received the Report for 1921 of the Fitzwilliam

Museum, Cambridge, describing the progress of the buildings which will accommodate the fine Marley collections and recording also many accessions by gift or purchase, especially through the "Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum." It is pleasant to note the large number of private donors. Our museums, it is clear, will in the future have to depend more upon the generosity of private persons and less upon purchases from their very inadequate funds, unless, indeed, rich men in this country begin to imitate the American millionaires who are always lavishing their wealth upon public institutions like the Metro- politan Museum of New York.