He might have begun with Bredius and Meyer of Holland, and M.Durand-Greville of France, and would then have been only at the beginning of his task.

People make the long journey to St.Petersburg for the sake of the 35 pictures by Rembrandt that the Hermitage contains.

He is hailed to-day as the greatest etcher the world has ever known, and there are some who place him at the head of that noble triumvirate who stand on the summit of the painters' Parnassus, Velasquez, Titian, and Rembrandt.

Having browsed and battened on Rembrandt, and noted the countless cosmopolitan workers that for fifty years have been excavating the country marked on the art map Rembrandt, you can perhaps understand why our golfer likened the work of his commentators to the incessant activity that his upturning of that grey, lichen-covered boulder revealed.
[Illustration: THE HOLY FAMILY WITH THE ANGELS 1645.

The Hermitage, St.Petersburg.] But had our golfer, brimming with the modern passion for efficiency, learned foreign tongues, and browsed in the musty archives, he would have discovered that there was much to unlearn.