House and Garden 
tice Grantham referred to the discrep¬ 
ancy between Mrs. Brunton’s and Mr. 
Maple’s evidence in regard to her state¬ 
ment that she had informed him of the 
value of the carpet, remarking that its 
owner was more likely to remember the 
details of an interview than a person who 
was engaged in a variety of business 
transactions. It seemed to the Judge 
a very dangerous thing to have employed 
such an inflammable substance as benzo¬ 
line in the place where it had been used, 
especially as it was shown that the 
cleaner had at a prior date a workshop 
for the purpose of cleaning articles in¬ 
stead of operating on them in his living- 
rooms. The jury found for the plaintiff, 
that there had been negligence, and 
assessed the damages at £l,ooo. — Lon¬ 
don Graphic. 
PAINTINGS FOR HIRE 
TN Germany has recently been 
proposed a plan, writes H. W. 
S. in the “Burlington Magazine,” by 
which an astonishing dissemination of 
art might be attained. The author of 
the plan starts with the sound considera¬ 
tion that one needs leisure and quiet 
to enjoy art. These we rarely have 
in museums or exhibition rooms. We 
have them really nowhere but in our 
homes. We get pianos and typewriters 
on hire—why not paintings on hire ? 
Many a man who cannot afford to be a 
patron on account of the smallness of 
his income, could in this way manage 
to beautify his home; he could make 
his selections at the exhibitions, at the 
dealer’s galleries, or even the artists’ 
studios. A lot of work that now lies 
about unsold without bringing its origi¬ 
nator any profit would at least give him 
a return of interest. Instead of sub¬ 
stituting a renting for a purchasing 
system, it would tend to increase the 
number of sales, because of the difficulty 
of parting with a picture that one has 
grown to like. Perhaps, too, the rent 
could be applied on the purchase price 
as is the case with suburban real estate. 
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