THE following brief remarks are intended as a suggestion and not as a complete discussion of the subject.So far as concerns that portion of the American public that is interested in art, I think we may fairly grant that it is well served by the various art magazines, native and foreign, and by the monthly, weekly, and daily press, which more or less frequently sets before its readers articles on art subjects. It would be impossible for me to estimate what portion of our public is thus provided for, but it is perfectly evident that a vastly greater portion is not interested in art, and, so far as I am aware, there is no direct, organized effort to reach this immense mass of persons through the medium of the general public press.