REMINISCENCES OP THE 'EIGHTIES AND 'NINETIES
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sra,—I should be much obliged if you would grant me space to supplement and correct the brief reference to Mr. MacColl's connexion with the Spectator in my article in your Centenary number. It was in January, 1890 that he began to write and in February, 1896 that he retired. In those years- he could claim to have been the first to recogriiie such notable newcomers as Steer, Sickert, Brabazon,Conder,Rothenstein,and Beardsley, and to have assisted in establishing the place of the contested earlier masters—Whistler, Monet., Degas, and Monet. And I have the best of reasons for stating that Mr. MaeColl left the Spectator from no lack of appreciation on the part,of the editors, but because he thought_ that he had done his turn in criticism, and would•theneeforth be more free to devote himself to painting.—I am, Sir, &c., CHARLES L. GRAVES.
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