and his cloying sweetnesses, missing the greater things which make his art, at times, more or less real. This, of course—this copying of the lesser traits of the great—happens in all ages. See how the disciples of Sargent can imitate his technique. The copied brown tone does not make a Rembrandt any

. Edward S, �Sayres, a prominent member of the Philadelphia Bar. He is a great-grandson of Samuel Humes, who ap- pears in the Eichholtz ledger as one of the artist's liberal local patrons. Miss Hamilton, of St. Paul, who is a kinswoman of the Humes family, has four Eichholtz portraits, viz., of Mr. and Mrs

AN ASTOR IN LANCASTER COUNTY, Many years since a German family, consisting of a man by the name of Fessler, his wife, and two children, named Jacob and Susan, drifted into Bainbridge, where they located, but no one knew from whence they came. They located in a small stone house, which was standing

have no trace of Persico. A brief notice of him and his work appears in Nagler's "Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon,"München,1841,Vol.II.,p.131. It refers to him as a sculptor at Na- ples, one of the celebrated artists who graced several churches and palaces of Italy with his works. The Champneys