ON the top floor of Grafton's house, in Michigan Avenue, there was a room filled with what he called "the sins of the fathers"-the bad pictures and statuary come down from two generations of more or less misdirected enthusiasm for art. In old age his father had begun this collection; forty years of dogged pursuit of good taste taught him much. Graftoncompleted it as soon as he came into possession.In him a Grafton at last combined right instinct and...
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