And let me reproduce a conversation with one of the visitors. It is illustrative:-- [SCENE: _The Carfax Gallery; rather empty; early morning: Caricatures by Max Beerbohm; entrance one shilling. Enter_ DISTINGUISHED CLIENT, _takes catalogue, but does not consult it. No celebrity ever consults a catalogue in a modern picture-gallery. This does not apply to ladies, however distinguished, who conscientiously begin at number one and read out from the catalogue the title of each picture_. SHOPMAN _in attendance_.] D. C. (_glancing round_). Yes; how very clever they are. SHOPMAN. Yes; they are very amusing. D. C. I suppose you have had heaps of People. What a pity Max cannot draw! SHOPMAN. Yes; it _is_ a great pity. D. C. (_examines drawing; after a pause_). But he _can_ draw. Look at that one of Althorp. SHOPMAN (_trying to look intelligent_): Yes; that certainly is well drawn. D. C. (_pointing to photograph of Paris inserted in Mr. Claude Lowther's caricature_). And how extraordinary that is. It is like one of Muirhead Bone's street scenes. He does street scenes, doesn't he? SHOPMAN. Yes; or one of Mr. Joseph Pennell's. D. C. (_after a pause_). What a pity he never gets the likeness. That's very bad of Arthur Balfour. SHOPMAN. Yes; it is a great pity. No; that's not at all a good one of Mr. Balfour. D. C. (_pointing to Mr. Shaw's photograph inserted in caricature_). But he _has_ got the likeness there. By Jove! it's nearly as good as a photograph. SHOPMAN (_examining photograph as if he had never seen it; enthusiastically_). It's _almost_ as good as a photograph. D. C. (_pointing with umbrella to Lord Weardale_). Of course, that's Rosebery? SHOPMAN (_nervously_): Y-e-s. (_Brightly changing subject_.) What do you think of Mr. Sargent's? D. C. (_now worked up_). Oh! that's very good. Yes; that's the best of all. I see it's sold. I should have bought that one if it hadn't been sold. I wish Max would do a caricature of (_describes a possible caricature_). Tell him I suggested it; he knows me quite well (_glancing round_). He really is tremendous. Are they going to be published? SHOPMAN. Yes; by Methuen & Co. (_Hastily going over to new-comer_.) Yes, madam, that is Mr. Arthur Balfour; it's considered the _best_ caricature in the exhibition--the likeness is so particularly striking; and as a pure piece of draughtsmanship it is certainly the finest drawing in the room. No; that's not so good of Lord Althorp, though it _was_ the first to sell. (_Turning to another client_.) Yes, sir; he is Mr. Beerbohm Tree's half-brother. (1907.) _To_ MRS. BEERBOHM. THE ETHICS OF REVIEWING.