Art is so over-talked and over-written at the present time (charmingly, to be sure, but still overdone), that, even were a student's opinion on the subject of any value, I have no intention of adding my name to the list of those who, from critics like Ruskin and Hamerton down to the multitude of newspaper correspondents, keep America en courant with European painters, pictures, and gossip.
But none of these writers report the actual cost of living, instruction, or rent of studio abroad ; or how one in search of such can most easily and economically obtain them, in order to realize the desire of one's heart.
