REPORTS FROM THE SECTIONS. 189 
Art Criticism. 
By E. L. Monreriore. 
[Read before the Literature and Fine Art Section, 30 May, 1879.] 
moting a little pleasant conversation by interchange of 
the subject. It has been sai an eminent art 
© or a statue be deficient in some special quality upon which 
‘se our judgment, we are apt to condemn it 7 foto. 
oy Unfortunately, too, 
‘* general tendency on the part of art critics In public 
¥0 dor stock phrases take the place of profound judgment 
h with the mass, who prefer to be led by other people’s 
‘Tather than to exercise their own. It has been 
