. Programme . or-chestral piece. It is forever appearing, transformed in a thousand river is personified. It is alive, enormous. One is reminded ofGogols description of another Russian stream: Marvellous is thisriver in peaceful weather, when it rolls at ease through forests andbetween mountains. You look at it, and you do not know whether itmoves or not, such is its majesty. You would say that it were a roadof blue ice, immeasurable, endless, sinuously making its way throughverdure. What a dehght for the broiUng sun to cool his rays in thefreshness of clear water, and for the trees o


. Programme . or-chestral piece. It is forever appearing, transformed in a thousand river is personified. It is alive, enormous. One is reminded ofGogols description of another Russian stream: Marvellous is thisriver in peaceful weather, when it rolls at ease through forests andbetween mountains. You look at it, and you do not know whether itmoves or not, such is its majesty. You would say that it were a roadof blue ice, immeasurable, endless, sinuously making its way throughverdure. What a dehght for the broiUng sun to cool his rays in thefreshness of clear water, and for the trees on the bank to admire them-selves in that looking-glass, the giant that he is! There is not a riverlike unto this one in the world. In Turgenieffs strange story Visions the narrator takes one ofhis flights in air with the unseen companion EUis at night over the Volga,Elhs told him to shout the old war-cry of the river pirates, Saryn naKitchoii. He gave the cry: there were answering shouts, there were .•*»^f^. Photographs by Bachrach are genuine portraiture andideally express the personality of the subject. (Photographs of Distinction) 647 Boylston Street, Boston WorcesterNew York ProvidencePhiladelphia HartfordWashingten SpringfieldBaltimore MANUFACTURERS RETA/LERS FURRIERS RELIABLE FURS RELIABLE INFORMATION RELIABLE PRICES NO MISREPRESENTATIONAS TO VALUES COLD STORAGE 72 Chauncy St., Boston Tel. Beach 48 692


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