Excerpt from Goupil's Paris Salon of 1899, Vol. 1: One Hundred Plates Photogravures and One Water Color Fac-Simple<br><br>At the close of the Salon of the Society of French Artists, last year, its President, M. John Paul Laurens, member of the Institute, made some strong and sound remarks. He protested against the amount of wall space given to<br>amateur artists.<br><br>The warning has not been heeded; the amateur studios have called into the field this year an army that has besieged the jury with more compact forces than those they brought into line in 1898.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.