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Title: The Collectors
Author: Frank Jewett Mather
Release Date: August 4, 2004 [eBook #13114]
Language: English
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THE COLLECTORS
Being Cases mostly under the Ninth and Tenth Commandments
by
FRANK JEWETT MATHER, Junr.
1912



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.
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