A Royal Academician is a person who doesn't think and paints what other people see. A Genius is a person who doesn't see and paints what other people don't think. A Critic is a person who doesn't paint and thinks what other people don't see. The Public are people who don't see or think what other people don't paint. A Dealer is a person that sees that people who paint don't think, and who thinks that people who don't paint don't see. He sees people who don't see people who paint; he thinks that people who paint don't see people who see; and he sees what people who don't paint think. FINALLY A Reader is a person whose head swims. The art critics accredited to the daily Press, like their musical colleagues, could no longer be accused of lagging behind the modernist tendencies of the times: they aspired to be in the van of progress. In 1913 _Punch_ burlesques the wonderful phraseology of _The Times_ art critic in one of his "Studies of reviewers," which deals with the exhibitors at the Neo-British Art League. It may suffice to quote the appreciations of Mme. Strulda Brugh and Mr. Marcellus Thom. The method of the former, as illustrated by her "Pekinese Puppies," is contrasted with that of the Congestionist school in that she "deanthropomorphizes her scheme of pigmentation into nodules of aplanatic voluminosity":-- When therefore we have to assume a fluorescent reticulation of the interstitial sonorities, a situation is developed which might well baffle any but an advanced expert in transcendental mathematics. As a result the modelling of the puppies' tails is lacking in curvilinear conviction; their heads fail in canine suggestiveness, their fore-paws in prehensile subjectivity. Mr. Marcellus Thom's "Sardine Fishers in the Adriatic," executed in "creosoted truffle stick," is a masterpiece of "suppressed but dignified antinomianism":-- Wonderful though the drawing and the interfiltration of coordinating paraboloids are, it is the psychological content of the picture rather than its direct presentative significance which affects the solar plexus of the enlightened onlooker. The whole atmosphere is summarized and condensed in a circumambient and oleaginous aura.... To do full justice to such a picture is unhappily beyond the resources of the most sublime preciosity. It demands the [Greek: esôterikê phlyaria] of Theopompus of Megalocrania or even the _intima desipientia_ distilled in the _Atopiad_ of Vesanus Sanguinolentus. [Illustration: The Hanging Committee _Sir Hubert Herkomer_, R.A.] [Illustration: Portrait of Miss Guldheimer _J. Sargent, R.A._] [Illustration: The Young Squire's Wedding _H. H. La Thangue, A.R.A._] [Illustration: "The red orb sinks, the toiler's day is done" _B. W. Leader, R.A._]