[_Repulses the Catalogue severely and passes on._ FIRST PERSON, _with an "Eye for Art"_ (_before "Psyche's Bath," by the President_). Not bad, eh? SECOND PERSON, &c. No, I rather like it. (_Feels that he is growing too lenient_). He doesn't give you a very good idea of marble, though. FIRST P. &c. No--_that's_ not marble, and he always puts too many folds in his drapery to suit _me_. FIRST P. &c. Just what _I_ always say. It's not natural, you know. [_They pass on, much pleased with themselves and one another._ A FIANCÉ (_halting before a sea-scape, by Mr. Henry Moore, to_ FIANCÉE). Here, I say, hold on a bit--what's _this_ one? FIANCÉE (_who doesn't mean to waste the whole afternoon over pictures_). Why, it's only a lot of waves--_come_ on! THE SUBURBAN L. Lucy, _this_ is rather nice. _"Breakfasts for the Porth!_" (_Pondering_). I think there must be a mistake in the Catalogue--I don't see any breakfast things--they're cleaning fish, and what's a "Porth!" Would you mark that--or not? HER COMP. Oh, I _think_ so. THE S. L. I don't know. I've marked such a quantity already and the lead won't hold out much longer. Oh, it's by Hook, R.A. Then I suppose it's _sure_ to be all right. I've marked it, dear. DUET BY TWO DREADFULLY SEVERE YOUNG LADIES, _who paint a little on China_. Oh, my _dear_, look at that. Did you ever _see_ such a thing? Isn't it too perfectly _awful_? And there's a thing! Do come and look at this horror over here. A "_Study_," indeed. I should just think it _was_! Oh, Maggie, don't be so satirical, or I shall die! No, but _do_ just see this--isn't it _killing?_ They get worse and worse every year, I declare! [_And so on._ IN GALLERY NO. V. _Two Prosaic Persons come upon a little picture, by Mr. Swan, of a boy lying on a rock, piping to fishes._ FIRST P. P. _That's_ a rum thing! SECOND P. P. Yes, I wasn't aware myself that fishes were so partial to music. FIRST P. P. They may be--out there--(_perceiving that the boy is unclad_)--but it's peculiar altogether--they look like herrings to me. SECOND P. P. Yes--or mackerel. But (_tolerantly_) I suppose it's a fancy subject. [_They consider that this absolves them from taking any further interest in it, and pass on._ IN GALLERY NO. XI. AN OLD LADY (_who judges Art from a purely Moral Standpoint, halts approvingly before a picture of a female orphan_). Now that really is a nice picture, my dear--a plain black dress and white cuffs--just what I _like_ to see in a young person!