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 BAY AND UPPER COAST COUNTIES 135 we have his " Vagabond " and " Tired of Her." Miss Akimova's " Finland Evening " neighbours Gamble's joyful " Spring in California," and Deakin's " Corner of a French Kitchen " and Tom Hill's lovely " Redwoods." A portrait by Repin is hung near the " Yosemite Valley " by C. D. Robinson, and near two of Alexeiev's character- istic pictures of Russian life. A canvas by Charles Nahl interprets the Goya- esque episodes of a " Sunday in California in the Early Days " music, quarrelling, flirting, horse- breaking, drinking in the fonda arbour. " Tamal- pais " and " A Grey Day " are by Thad Welch, he of the Marin Hills, and there is a majestic Keith picture of the Californian Alps. Hahn and Kahl, Yelland and Partington, all Californians, are here, and many others, there being several hun- dred canvases in the collection. Berkeley, which is of itself a community worthy to be visited for its Hotel Claremont, its Country Club and Leroy Avenue and Ridge Road homes, is best known as the seat of the State University. Here it may be said on the authority of a Cali- fornia statist (all Californians are facile in quot- ing figures relating to their State) that this com- monwealth, after Massachusetts, has more college students than any in the Union. The campus of the Berkeley school was laid out upon the carefully deliberated plan of a French