is a favorite resort for this purpose during the midsummer heats. The subject of "A Song Without Words" explains itself. A young girl in an idle mood plays upon a zither the dreamy music whose spell has enchanted half the world. The artists, W. Thorne, is English, a native of London and pupil of the South Kensington Museum School of Art.

Ovid tells the tragical history of Pyramus and Thisbe in the fourth book of

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Nathaniel Sichel