[Illustration:  “Hullo, Sunny! where were you on Whit Monday?”

“Why, off for MY Bank Holiday, to be sure!”]

“Portrait of an English Gentleman of the Nineteenth Century.”—­We are not quite sure that we like the unconventional treatment of the accessories in this picture.  It is perfectly true that we find from contemporary records that an invitation to dinner was frequently accompanied by the expressed wish that the guest “was not to dress;” but still such hints at the strange manners and customs of a bygone age may be carried out too literally.

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