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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Collectors, by Frank Jewett Mather This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Collectors Author: Frank Jewett Mather Release Date: August 4, 2004 [eBook #13114] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COLLECTORS*** E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Project Gutenberg Beginners Projects, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team THE COLLECTORS Being Cases mostly under the Ninth and Tenth Commandments by FRANK JEWETT MATHER, Junr. 1912 Comprising a _Ballade_, wherein the Wrongfulness of Art Collecting is conceded, and as well Certain Stories: _Campbell Corot_, which recounts the career of an able and candid Picture Forger. _The del Puente Giorgione_, which tells of an artful Great Lady and an Artless Expert. _The Lombard Runes_, a mere interlude, but revealing a certain duplicity in Professional Seekers for Truth. _Their Cross_, so called from an inanimate Object of Price which wrought Woe to a well meaning New York Couple. _The Missing St Michael_, a tale of Italianate Americans which is full of Vanities and, though alluring to the Sophisticated, quite unfit for the Simple Reader. _The Lustred Pots_, again a mere interlude, but of a grim sort, as it grazes the Sixth Commandment and _The Balaklava Coronal_, which, notwithstanding its exotic title, is mostly of our own People, showing the Triumph of a resourceful Dealer over two Critics and a Captain of Industry. To which seven stories are added some _Reflections upon Art Collecting_, setting forth Excuses and Palliations for a Practice usually regarded as Pernicious. FOREWORD Of the seven stories of art collecting that make up this book "Campbell Corot" and the "Missing St. Michael" first appeared under the pseudonym of Francis Cotton, in "Scribner's Magazine," and are now reprinted by its courteous permission. Similar acknowledgment is due the "Nation" for allowing the sketch on art collecting to be republished. Many readers will note the similarity between the story "The del Puente Giorgione" and Paul Bourget's brilliant novelette, "La Dame qui a perdu
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