Probably we shall never get the priests who have developed in the present unhealthy, unhelpful school to do more for us. Still the demand will create the supply. The reform will come from below - from the shops, in fact.

As the tradesmen find that the public discriminate, and insist on better designs and better work, they will provide it. A superior level of designing power will be found among the shop-designers, who will begin to attend art-classes, and model from nature. Here and there a man of genius will spring up, and the tradesman will have sense to recognise him. Hosts of buyers will support the improved standard of work; thousands can afford 5/. when not one in a thousand can afford 500/. Wall-papers, gowns, jewellery, plate, china, carpets, cabinets, and numberless necessities of daily life will become works of art. We shall get really good panels for our rooms, really good fresco-painting, if we demand it, such as may be obtained in Italy.

Theft the Philistine will no more buy a sketch in oil paint for a sum which might pension a soldier or historian and his posterity for ever. The skilfullest works will lose their fancy value, and will stand on their merits. There are already rumours that pictures 'don't sell' which would have sold a few years ago. Taut micux. We shall do without our artists - as they pretend they can do without us! - and we shall have better art!