Mit. WALTER CRANE'S PICTURE IN THE GROS VENOR.
[TO TH8 EDITOR OP TH8 "SPECTATOR."] you allow me space to make a slight correction ? It is in regard to a statement about a work of mine, in a notice of the Grosvenor Gallery appearing in the Spectator of June 9th, to which my attention has only now been called. Your critic seems so surprisingly well informed as to my personal move- ments, that I feel it is a pity he should not be equally so in regard to my pictorial practices and intentions. I am sure he will be relieved to hear that "Diana and the Shepherd" was not designed in Italy, and that there is not " an olive tree" in the picture.
Whether your critic has not, in the free assumptions he has thought fit to make in regard to my work, himself furnished, to -use his own words, "another example of how futile it is " " to rely -upon his imagination beyond a certain point," I must leave your
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