. Memories of an old collector . eur, it isnecessary to have been often deceived,and preferably at your own expense, 186 MEMORIES OF for nothing improves the taste as muchas personal disappointment. Quiteother is the task that belongs to them it falls to explain subjects, todefine dates, to distinguish styles, tofix attributes. This task demands somuch learning, and such lengthy re-searches, that it seems difficult, espe-cially at the present day, to be both agreat savant and a, great connoisseur—to excel at once in the region of eru-dition and in that of sentiment. Thebest that bot
. Memories of an old collector . eur, it isnecessary to have been often deceived,and preferably at your own expense, 186 MEMORIES OF for nothing improves the taste as muchas personal disappointment. Quiteother is the task that belongs to them it falls to explain subjects, todefine dates, to distinguish styles, tofix attributes. This task demands somuch learning, and such lengthy re-searches, that it seems difficult, espe-cially at the present day, to be both agreat savant and a, great connoisseur—to excel at once in the region of eru-dition and in that of sentiment. Thebest that both connoisseurs 2xv& savantscan do, is to remain each in his sphere,living on good terms, and enlighteningeach other by wise counsels. — While correcting the finalproofs of this article, the last of theinteresting series of the Memories ofan Old Collector, I received the sadnevirs of the death of Count MichaelTyszkiewicz, which occurred in Rome,November i8, 1897. I may be allowedto add my tribute to the charming BRONZE MIRROR Tyskiewicz Collection : now in British of Backgammon {duodecim scripta). AN OLD COLLECTOR 187 the amateur full of taste and of un-erring^ judgment, who put together forour review a thousand instructive andamusing stories, which will neverwant for readers. The memory ofCount Tyszkiewicz will live in thesefascinating pages, even when his col-lection is dispersed. In them he hasgiven us the best of himself: his longexperience, his passion for beautifulthings, his delicate instinct for style,and also the urbanity and good fellow-ship which rendered intercourse withthe friend we have lost so especiallydelightful. S. R. The translator owes to Mr. A. , of the British Museum, thefollowing notes on the Old Collector^and also much help in the choice of theillustrations : It is a common saying that while collectorsof antiquities must die, museums live on and canbide their time. So it has happened in the case of 188 MEMORIES OF the la
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