A LIBERAL NOBLEMAN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 136, 10 December 1875, Page 7

A LIBERAL NOBLEMAN.

Thk Duke of Westminster, some weeks bael<> set an excellent example, which might be followed with benefit even in this country. Grosvenor House, the London residence of this gentleman, is remarkable for its magnificent collection of pictures, statues and curiosities. The duke, persuaded that the sight of these beautiful things would benefit the poorer people of the metropolis, has thrown them open to the public every Sunday between church hours. Thousands of Avorkingmen and their Avives have since visited the splendid apartments of the princely residence, and their expressions of delight were frequent. In London, as in New York, the public museums and institutions are hermetically closed on Sunday, whereas the swinging 1 doors of the public houses are oil the move all day long. The Duke of Westminster's experiment might be tried here by some of our republican merchant princes, who possess galleries of great beauty; indeed, we could name five Noav Yorkers whose collections of Avorkrf of art are far larger than those of any public galleries in this country. Tlio duke Avisely kept his galleries open, only iv the hours Avhen divine service was not in progress, and assuredly those hours could not possibly havo boon better employed by the recreation -seek ing multitude which went in and out of G rosvenor house, than in this contemplation o£ specimens of man's most admirable and elevating works, noblo pictures, mostly of a religious character, and line statuary. — ' Catholic lioview.'

" Say, Mister," said a soiled-looking boy on the wharf, recently, " do you ever give a piece o' water-melon to a poor boy whose father 'n mother's dead, 'n who goes to Sunday-school, 'n has got a sore heel ?" The man was deeply touched and gave him a large slice off of a rotten one. — ' Norwich Bulletin.'