EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Upon inquiry at the Library, I find that none of the important art periodicals of the day are to be found there.

It seems to me that, considering the number of students who take courses in the Fine Arts, we lose a most reliable and inexpensive auxiliary to our studies in not having some of these magazines. Of course a picture gallery would be better than the periodicals. But even a picture gallery would not make up for many things that are to be found only in the periodicals. Much of the best art criticism and thought of the day appears in them, and is not afterwards put into book form. In course of time these periodicals, filled with all these thoughts and criticisms, would become great receptacles of accumulated knowledge, and so would be most valuable works of reference

Another way in which art periodicals would be of great value to art students would be that in these periodicals appear etchings, a part of them original work by men of he present day, as Paul Rajon, or Maxime Lalanne, who died but yesterday; a part of them etched after etchings of the wellknown men of the past, as Rembrandt and Meryon; a part of them after wellknown pictures. Also engravings, both original and after-pictures, reproductions of charcoal and of pencil drawings, are constantly published in the art magazines. These illustrations, whether they were original work or after the "old" and "modern" masters, would certainly be a great help to a student in gaining a correct knowledge of the graphie arts and in forming a good taste in them.