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GRAND OPERA.
BRITISH TRUST FUND APPEAL.
The inaugural public mooting Mr. Frank Munsey's boquest to
in connexion with the National the Metropolitan Musouri. of Now York, estimated in some founded with the object of secur
Opera Trust, which has been quartors to be as much as sevening and maintaining the perform- millions sterling, will make that anoo of Grand Opera in this institution the richest in the country in a manner compatible world.
with the dignity of a great nation, was held on December 20 at the Central Hall, Westminster.
What it will do with this money and how far our own and othor museums will be handicap-
The Earl of Clarendon presided. pad by it in the competition for in the absence of the Marquess of collections and the advancement Londonderry, who, it was stated, of knowledge one cannot yet say. was absent on Government' busi But from a conversation a repreness in Northern Ireland. sentative of The Observer has had The Chairman said that in with Sir Frederick Kenyong originating the Trust they were Director of the British Museum influenced by the unsatisfactory one gets a very clear idea of the state of Opera in this country, strong financial position and the They asked whether the demand general line of progress that is für Grund Opera and the noud of baing followed by Americans were sufficient for them to muscums to-day.
make a determined effort to deal
It is perfectly true, it was with the question of raising a remarked, that American Trust fund, a good deal of which musaunis, and particularly those should be preserved, leaving the like the Metropolitan, are in a income available for subsidizing much better position financially Grand Opera. They unhesitat than museums, in this countryingly came to the cunclusion that They are able to draw on a very lit would be well worth making wealthy community and whilst the attempt.
it is not so much in the sale- That Grand Opera was rightly rhom that our museums have ex- and properly regarded in other porionced their competition, countries, and should be here, as many of them are spending vory work of such national valus that large sums, much larger, indeed, the niure consideration as to whe than we can afford, on excava-ther it would dreould not exactly tions and expeditions.
pay its way was not one that
For many years past the should alone control its destiny. Metropolitan has done a grout They folt strongly that a deter- dant of excavation in Egypt: the mined, systematized attempt American Natural History should be made to provide the Museum has generally several community with diversion
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was £25,000 a year. The trustees Museum of Natural History at would not permit any of their Chicago, another important in-funds to bo utilized by any com- stitution, also senda out expedí pany for the purpose of making tions, besides spending a good profit or declaring a dividend. deal of money or collections. They did not intend to go in for; It is not yet known how Mr. building schemes, but they were Munsey's millions are to be spent in sympathy with Mr.. Insidore at the Metropolitan. They may de Lara's scheme of building an be devoted, either in part or on Opera House in London. There tirely, to building. In any case could be no question of the ex- they will add anormously to the penditure of the great bulk of the strength of an institution which capital invested.
is already very strong financially; The Duke of Sutherland, the and it is only one instance Duchess of Atholl, M.P., Sir amongst many though a more Landon Ronald, and Mr. J. R. than usually prominent one, of Clynos spoke in support of the! the way in which rich Americans appeal. devote their money to museums, libraries, universities, and similar institutions.
It is not to be supposed that our museums do not benefit also from private benefactions,
bonuse they do, though not on the same scaló. That is partly because there are more private fortunes in America than there are here, and partly because many wealthy men there do not feel under the same obligation to hand on their possessions to their family.
Museum authorities, though they admit they could not expect to get so much here, would like to so rich men take the same point of view in this country. Thore is not the smallest chunco of more Government support for our museums at prosent the only hope is that they will not get loss: than the grants they are now re- ceiving. The annual grant for! the British Museum is £25,000. For the National Gallery it is very much less, though in their case the Government has pro-! mised to consider favourably the position if any pictures of nation- al importance come into thei market. Still, it is to he hoped, as Sir Frederick remarked, that economy would not take the form of slarving national institutions of art, literature, and knowledge.
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