To the offer of a Rothschild the Government would return as emphatic a negative as to a request from me.
The room in which is Vermeer's "Reader" contains also Maes's "Spinning Woman" (see page 230), two or three Peter de Hoochs and the best Jan Steen in the Ryks.

It is indeed a room to linger in, and to return to, indefinitely.

De Hooch's "Store Room" (No.

1248), of which I have already spoken, is in one of the little "Cabinet piece" rooms, which are not too well lighted.

Here also one may spend many hours, and then many hours more.
The "Peace of Munster" has been called Terburg's masterpiece: but the girl in his "Paternal Advice," No.