Boston Not Ashamed Of American Art

Boston alone can boast a museum that has any claim to represent American art-history, and even that representatkm is íeeble and inadequate. Why is it that we can íurnish heat, light, and lodging for Bouguereau and Vibert, while no one cares to take Gilbert Stuart and hls contemporarles la from the door-step ? What matter that "West and Oopley were immature painters ? So were Cimabue and Hogar th and Rene of Anjou. Some one had to make a büinning, and West and Oopley were beginners of whom we liave no ieison to be ashamed. At any rate they were our own, and if our improvement Ín avt has been rapid niñee their time, all the more rea soa why we should preserve the record of our