The _Daily Record_ came out with a copy of the will of Priam Farll, in which, after leaving a pound a week for life to his valet, Henry Leek, Priam Farll bequeathed the remainder of his fortune to the nation for the building and up-keep of a Gallery of Great Masters.

Priam Farll's own collection of great masters, gradually made by him in that inexpensive manner which is possible only to the finest connoisseurs, was to form the nucleus of the Gallery.

It comprised, said the _Record_, several Rembrandts, a Velasquez, six Vermeers, a Giorgione, a Turner, a Charles, two Cromes, a Holbein.

(After Charles the _Record_ put a note of interrogation, itself being uncertain of the name.) The pictures were in Paris--had been for many years.

The leading idea of the Gallery was that nothing not absolutely first-class should be admitted to it.