It  is  a  great  convenience  the  having
our  exhibitions  contiguous  to  each
other.  It  is  but  a  fbw  steps  from  the
Academy  to  the  Suffolk  Street  gallery,
the  Society  of  British  Artists.  This
soeiety,  too,  is  ambitious  of  a  motto-—
**  Ac  mea  quidem  sententia,  nemo
poterit  esse  omni  laude  cumulatus  ora-
tor, Hid  erit  omnium  rerum  magnarum


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atque  artium  sdentiam  eonsecutus>
M.  T.  Cicero,  Z>e  OnOoft  lib.  1.  A
more  stupid  motto  they  could  not  well
have  chosen,  nor  one  that  has  less  to
do  with  the  arts,  words  that  come  in
with  an  omnium  gatherum  knowledge
to  make  up— what  ?  not  a  painter,  not
a  connoisseur,  but  a  special  pleader  I
It  is  a  good  motto  enough  for  tickets
should  the  Polytechnic  Company  think
fit  to  invite  the  learned  profession  to  a
dinner.
