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 116 THE TOURIST'S CALIFORNIA woods and sparkling atmosphere of the land they love, and Partington, Coulter and Donovan have given us vigorous marines. When one has named this list he has left still unsung the merits of as many more whose works reveal with beautiful sym- pathy the devotion of the artists of California to her incomparable Out-of-Doors. In private and public galleries and in the exhi- bition rooms of Sutter and Post Street art stores one may find the canvases and sculpture of a great number of disciples of the California cult, many of whom are alumni of the old Institute in the Hopkins mansion, whose pupils have achieved ex- cellent things in Paris and New York as well as at home. The Pacific Union Club and the Fairmont Hotel complete a trio of notable structures at California and Mason Streets, of which the Art Institute makes one. If the sight-seer leaves Nob Hill by way of Mason Street he will pass the handsome clubhouse of the Native Sons of the Golden West below Post Street, and pause a moment to inter- pret its ornamental low-reliefs of burnt clay which recite a brief chronology of California. One block west are the beautiful new houses of the Olympic Athletic Club for whose salt baths water is piped in from the ocean, and the Bohemian Club, the most temperamental organisation of temperamen- tal San Francisco. Not to be a member of it ar-