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now entering into the composition of the SADDLE 

 AND SIRLOIN gallery. Some day a BOSWELL, with 

 nothing else in this world to do, who might do 

 justice to them all, may develop in our midst. Let 

 us hope so. A book could be written around the 

 careers of many of these individuals. In fact, such 

 biographies in certain cases already exist. I know 

 I could not exhaust my theme within the limits of 

 one ordinary octavo in several illustrious instances. 

 But we must for the present at least confine our- 

 selves to general discussion. 



The first substantial impetus came when ROBERT 

 OGILVIE sent forward his valuable paintings of CHARLES 

 and ROBERT COLLING, THOMAS BOOTH and "Nestor" 

 WETHERELL, all done by STUART in his palmy days 

 at Madison for Mr. OGILVIE'S own library. Their 

 appearance awakened at once a responsive chord in 

 the breasts of other appreciative students of the 

 history of animal breeding, prominent among those 

 so influenced being the late HENRY F. BROWN of 

 Minneapolis, Minn., a one-time upper Mississippi 

 lumber king, who on a modestly-equipped farm on 

 the banks of Minnehaha Greek maintained through- 

 out all the vicissitudes of a long and active business 

 career a good herd of purebred cattle. Late in life, 

 and while still in the throes of financial embarrass- 



