Our readers will hear with great pleasure that the Trustees
of the National Gallery have determined to try an experiment in the policy of making our Palaces of. Art also Palaces for the Peoples Pleasure. They are arranging for a performance of music in their Galleries on Tuesday next, July 18th, at 3 o'clock. Sir Hugh Allen is sending a quartet from the Royal College of Musk to play Beethoven (F minor, op. 95) and Haydn (C major). That is a fascinating scheme and marked by good taste as well as by imagination and the liberal mind. The fact that the nation's students will play to us while we look at our pictures gives the function a touch of communal family life which is delightful. As the original proposers of the plan we feel proud, but to the authorities at the National Gallery belongs the real credit. Suggestions are easy enough ; it is the carrying out that is the difficulty. We veritably believe now that London will soon be what it ought to be—the Paradise of the Poor Schuler and the Cashless Connoisseur I
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