Sane Advice To Voting Artists

"Don 't give in" was about the gist of what Sir Wyke Bayliss said to the Englisb. art students in a lecture at the South Kensington museum. He told them what ought to be' their watchword : "Do not believe, he said, in the in - sidious lie that the devil is always whispering to the soul of the artist that the golden age of art is past and that what was done yesterday cannot be done today, for art is in its decadence. Such an assertion was the danger of the time, and he would have them track it to its source and kill it there. It had two forme - despondoncy aud temptation - but he urged them not to bü influenced by either. Let their study be based upon knowledge, the knowledgo that had accumulated during the ages and was formulated iu what was known as academie training, and let their knowledge in turn be based upon their own study. " Uertainly that is the bost of advice, for what has been done bef'ore can be dono again.