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 interlud…
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