text: " By this it would appear that our artists' dreams of countries _alio sub sole_ are not likely to bring beauty of colour to their pictures--that the fables of Eastern skies are with regard to art fables; and though there is now always an attempt and that by no mean powers to drag the spectators at our exhibitions under the very chariot of the sun "sub curru nimium propinqui solis " real beauty of colour will be found much nearer home