First Sentence

"CERTAIN complaints have been made this year on the mode in which the Hanging Committee have exercised their inevitably ungracious function; and, although the difficulties of arranging several hundred pictures on walls not really able to admit one-third of the number should be liberally allowed for, yet there is some reason for the remark that original merit of the "unprotected" class has been placed too high or too low for sight, whilst privilege may have asserted itself over-conspicuously on the "line" of comfortable visibility."