Pittsburgh

Collecting

There are three reasons for collecting-- anything from prints to china: 1) the joy of collecting, 2) enjoyment of the collected, 3) investment. And Sir James Yoxall goes right on to tell Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Smith just how to collect. He is the author of The ABC About Collecting (Dutton).

Bourdelle, French " spiritual realist " sculptor, has been asked to design a war memorial in concrete, 25 x 10 meters, to be set against the rocks near Grenoble.

Entrance into the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts in France was refused to a Negro girl, aged 23. The committee of eight eminent American artists and architects rejected her application apparently on grounds of race.

The youngest exhibitor whose works have ever been hung in the Paris Salon is an American girl--Marsue Burrows, New York, 15. She had two miniatures accepted in the Spring exhibition which opened April 28. Miss Burrows began the study of art on her arrival in Paris in March, 1922. Her father, Frank Burrows, is connected with the Irving Bank-Columbia Trust Company, Manhattan.

An English woman, Mrs. F. A. Barnet, 71 years old, decided to take up painting. After five lessons she painted a picture which was accepted by the Royal Academy.