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lack of appreciation which so often marks the scholar of one idea.
Volume III contains "The Painters of Life" in France, Spain, Italy, England, Belgium Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Russia Germany, and America; and closes with "The New Idealists."
Jean Francois Millet and Jas. MacNeill Whistler, receive the honor of separate chapters as Leaders and Masters.
Bouguereau and many other popular idols of the present and the past are weighed in the balance and found wanting.
Altogether we have in these three volumes a work of great value not only to the Art-student but to all who recognize the need of the culture which resides in a knowledge of the world's best pictures. Ancient Painting has received much exposition at the hands of critics and scholars. We have long waited for a complete survey of the field of Modern Painting.
ALFRED HOUGHTON CLARK.
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A Dream.
The Adelphic Literary Society is not as well known among the students as it should be. Under the administration of Mr. H. G. Pope the society is doing excellent work and the meetings are not only interesting but profitable to those who attend. At last week's meeting the first volume of the Adelphic Oracle appeared and it will appear hereafter fortnightly.
We quote from it an article written by J. L. King on The Evanescent Dream of a Dreamer, in which he pleads for a larger recognition of the society especially from the faculty.
"How strange it is that, in sleep, the human mind is capable of flights of imagination far beyond those of its activity, when both body and mind are alert! What glimpses of paradise, what night-mares of Hades, what visions of loveliness, what apparitions of wickedness are caused, all by a disordered stomach!
"Last night I had the strangest dream of my life, so stange, so unlikely, that, with your permission, I will relate the substance of it; if indeed, there is any substance whatever in a dream.
"I dreamed that the Faculty had attended the last session of the Adelphic in a body. Don't laugh for 'tis only a dream! So remarkable was the circumstance, so unheard of was the proceeding, that every act is written upon the tablets of my memory: now it was in this wise. The faithful, the elect, the ever-coming saints; that is to say, the tried and true members were gathered together in bonds of fellowship, and also in dingy Music Hall for mutual edification and the settlement of all national and international differences, when the door opened and in came the faculty two by two singing: 'See the mighty host advancing, Satan leading on!" which was very appropriate, since they had secured a printer's devil to lead them. Instantly there was pandemonium in the sacred precincts. Jackson was on the floor at the time, debating, and therefore could see the door best of all. Suddenly he was heard to utter a wild yell and topple over backwards. This was on the approach of our beloved Faculty. The President of the Society began:
"O judgment, thou art fled to British beasts. And men have lost their reason!' and it was sometime before he recovered. Parks died for joy, and Lamb, that deliver in Biblical lore began: 'Lift up your heads, O ye Gates! And be ye lifted up ye everlasting walls!' Griffin fell in a faint upon the floor and is yet in a comatose condition, while Strawn saw his chance and improved it. Rising he began to welcome the Faculty, and when we left after the love feast at 12 P. M. we turned the key on him and left him still welcoming them.
"But finally order was restored and mutual congratulations were exchanged and then the program was dispensed with and we listened with rapture to the words of encouragement from our teachers. The harmony of the evening was broken but once and that by Layton, who all this time had been unconscious. Suddently springing to his feet he began:
"Shoot if you must this old gray head, but spare your country's flag she said,' then sank away into innocuous desuetude. I woke up, 'twas all a dream, but in that dream I read a prophecy."