We arc glad to find that the " Picture Galleries
" series now includes a volume on Glasgow (Hours in the Glasgow Art Galleries, by T. C. F. Brotchie, Duckworth, 3s. 6d.), for her collections are of high artistic importance and are well known to European connoisseurs. Mr. Brotchie, the Director, reminds us that the city in 1856 bought for £15,000 the M'Lellan collection of old masters, the present value of which is incalculable. It includes a magnificent Giorgione, " The Adultress before ChriSt," and the " St. Victor with a Doctor," which was one of the gems of the recent Flemish Exhibition and yet is certainly not Flemish but French, and is as far removed from Van Eyck—to whom the author assigns it—as any fifteenth-century picture of its type could well be. AnOther M`Lellan picture is the excellent Ruisdael, which is a view of Egmond and not, as Mr. Brotchie and his catalogue assert, of Katwyk. Glasgow is also very strong in modern work, with Whistler's " Carlyle " as its chief attraction. Last year Glasgow bought the Morton portrait of Mary Queen of Scots from the Earl of Morton, in whose family it had been, perhaps, since it was painted. Mr. Brotchie mentions the sculpture galleriei but has forgotten to add that Glasgow has a small but good Print Room and a valuable collection of decorative art. * * * *
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