BULLETIN 



esses: in^STITTJTE. 



Vol. 8. Salem, Mass., February, 1876. No. 2. 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. Ten Cents a Single Copy. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, February 7, 1876. 



Meeting this evening. The President in the chair. 

 Records read. 



Mr. S. G. "W. Benjamin of Boston gave a lecture on 

 "The Theory and Practice of Art," which was attentively 

 listened to by a large and appreciative audience. 



The high expectations which the lecturer's reijutation 

 as a writer had excited, were not disappointed. The 

 paper presented was an eminently able and finished pro- 

 duction, giving, in terse and attractive style, a vast deal 

 of information to the uninitiated in art matters. 

 " The lecturer commenced with a brief statement of the 

 development of interest in the fine arts, in America, dur- 

 ing the last quarter of a century, and warmly commended 

 the progress that had been made. But by the very ra- 

 pidity of that progress we are in danger of being super- 



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