I can bring you one at a time." "Do so, if you please," said the enthusiast.

"I should like to examine them all, even if it takes a week." The obliging youth inclined his head and departed.
There is a delightful air of leisure and learning about the Print Room, and an entire absence of hustle.

Two students besides himself were the only other members of the public, one studying Holbein, the other Blake.
[Illustration: PORTRAIT OF AN OLD LADY, FULL FACE, HER HANDS FOLDED 1641.

The Hermitage, St.Petersburg.] The first portfolio that was brought to him contained the _Christ Healing the Sick_, known as _The Hundred Guilder Print_, in several states.

It was the first large etching by Rembrandt that he had seen, and he gazed with astonishment, admiration, and awe at the almost miraculous characterisation of the figures, at the depth and richness of the blacks, and the nobility of the conception.