. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. its inmates,m/m/ Discretion, Piety, Charity and Prudence, would accompany him down to the foot of the hill that led into the l^alley ofHumiliation, to render any aid he might require. So he began to godown, but very warily, yet be caught a slip or two. The artist has keptvery closely to the letter of the text, without departing from its of his companions. Discretion and Piety, the latter in a white robe,hold him on each side to keep him from falling; Prudence removes somebrambles from bis path; and Charity, with an infant in he
. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. its inmates,m/m/ Discretion, Piety, Charity and Prudence, would accompany him down to the foot of the hill that led into the l^alley ofHumiliation, to render any aid he might require. So he began to godown, but very warily, yet be caught a slip or two. The artist has keptvery closely to the letter of the text, without departing from its of his companions. Discretion and Piety, the latter in a white robe,hold him on each side to keep him from falling; Prudence removes somebrambles from bis path; and Charity, with an infant in her arms, carriesa basket containing a loaf of bread, a bottle of wine, and a cluster ofraisins, which is presented to him when they part company. The group of figures is arranged with great skill and with decided pic-torial effect. Throughout the composition there is nothing allegorical;all is natural, beautiful and most attraSlive in feeling, expression, andcolor. The piSliire was exhibited at the Royal Academy in i8^^. By Courtesy of Mitchells, N. CHRISTINE 227 CHRONICLERS countess.—E. Stirling, The Prisoner ofState (1847). Christine Dryfoos, tlie undisciplined,shoAvy daughter of a self-made man in HoweUss A Hazard of New Fortunes(1889). Slie was self-possessed because she feltthat a knowledge of her fathers fortunehad got around, and she had the peacewhich money gives to ignorance. She ismadly in love with Beaton, whose atten-tions have raised expectations he concludednot to fulfill. At their last meeting shefelt him more than life to her, and knewhim lost, and the frenzy that makes awoman kUl the man she loves or fling vit-riol to destroy the beauty she cannot havefor all hers possessed her lawless soul. . .She flashed at him, and with both handsmade a feline pass at the face he benttowards her. Christmas Treasures. Eugene Field,in A Little Booh of Western Verse, gives afathers soliloquy over such treasures as The little toy my darling knew,A little sock of faded
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