The Sixteenth. Annual Report of the National Art-Collections Fund, whose
headquarters are at Hertford House, Manchester Square, shows that the Society made important additions to the national collections -last year. It played a part, with the generous help of Sir Alfred Mond, in the aoquisition of the superb Brussels tapestry which once hung in Wolsey's chamber at Hampton Court and has now been restored to its old home. Other. gifts made by Or through the Fund include a remarkable Chinese Buddhist statue of the twelfth century, a picture of Henry the Seventh's Chapel in 1745 by Canaletto, a newly discovered and very fine landscape by the rare Dutch master, Cornelis Vroom, Blake's wonderful illustrations of the Divine Comedy, the Newdegate centre-piece by Paul Lamerie, and several Italian Renaissance medals. We are surprised to find that the Fund has only 1,644 subscribers. The number ought to be multiplied tenfold, for • the subscription is only a guinea a year and subscribers are admitted free of charge on students' days at the national galleries.
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