148. Objection to circulating valuable or rare works of art throughout the country, on account of the risk of injury--Disapproval of inspectors, etc., going about with the visitors (cp. 159).--Advantage in the upper classes lending pictures, etc., for public exhibition. 149. Lectures to working men. Advantage if large printed explanations were placed under every picture (cp. 157, 161). 150. Great desire among the working classes to acquire knowledge; grounds of such desire (cp. 155).--Great boon if a museum were formed at the east end of London. 151. Lectures on natural history for working men. 152. Books available on British birds. 153. Intermediate study essential to use of Lectures.--Good attendance at Working Men's College.--Terms and conditions of admission to it. 154. Approval of Saturday half-holiday movement (cp. 140, 161). 155. See above, s. 142. 156. Competition in trade and labor regarded by witness as a great evil. 157. See above, s. 143, 149. 158-59. Happier condition of lower classes abroad than at home. Their dress also better abroad. 163-64, 166, and see above, s. 142. 160. See above, s. 143, 149, 157. 161. See above, s. 149, 154. 162. Use of existing public buildings for art collections. 163-64. See above, s. 158-59. 165. Surely England may one day be Merry England again.--When it ceased to be so. 166. See above, s. 158-59. 167. Increase of trade and deteriorated condition of working-classes.--Our duty to them. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 2: Reprinted from "The Report of the Select Committee on Public Institutions. _Ordered by_ the House of Commons _to be printed_, 27 March 1860," pp. 113-123. The following members of the Committee were present on the occasion of the above evidence being given: -Sir John Trelawny (_Chairman_), Mr. Sclater Booth, Mr. Du Pre, Mr. Kinnaird, Mr. Hanbury, Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Slaney, and Mr. John Tollemache.--ED.] PICTURE GALLERIES--THEIR FUNCTIONS AND FORMATION. THE ROYAL ACADEMY COMMISSION.[3] _Evidence of John Ruskin, Monday, June 8th, 1863._ 168. _Chairman._ You have, no doubt, frequently considered the position of the Royal Academy in this country?--Yes. Is it in all points satisfactory to you?--No, certainly not.