Bode and Bredius, and finally by M.Emile Michel's Life, which is the definitive and standard work on Rembrandt.

Our golfer, whose French is a little rusty, was delighted to find when he gave the order for this book that it had been translated into English under the editorship of Mr.Frederick Wedmore.

It was in the third edition.
He learned much from M.Emile Michel--among other things the herculean labour that is necessary if one desires to write a standard and definitive book on a subject.

Not only did M.Michel visit and revisit all the galleries where Rembrandt's pictures are displayed in Russia, France, England, Sweden, Denmark, and North Germany, but he lived for several years with Rembrandt, surrounded by reproductions of his pictures, drawings, and etchings, and by documents bearing on their history, his mind all the while intently fixed on the facts of Rembrandt's life and the achievements of his genius.

Gradually the procession of dates and facts took on a new significance; the heterogeneous threads of information wove themselves into the fabric of a life.