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• Bible lesson in the Ghetto
  The Ghelto [sic] is the Jews' quarter in Venice.
• An Almond Tree
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• An Alexandrian School
  (Royal Academy, 1881.) The teacher is blind and the school is open to the street, and no wonder the boys are not very attentive.
• Love in a maze
  There were mazes such as the one at Hampton Court, in most old fashioned gardens. The lover behind has lost his way and is listening to his rival's success.
• Women Washing
  Italian women always do their washing in the open air and with cold water, and they beat and bang the linen unmercifully.
• Spring time
  Brenghel [sic] was a Dutch artist, A.D.1510-1570. The gardens of the people, and the artist's manner of painting them are equally stiff, prim, and formal.
• A music lesson
  The instruent on which the girl is playing is an old-fashioned kind of piano, called a spinet.
• Boy with a cherry
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• Isle of Skye, N.B.
  "The feeding of the rivers and the purifying of the plains the least of the services appointed to the hills. To fill the thirst of the human heart for the beatuy of God's working to startle its lethargy with the deep and pure agitation of astonishment, --are their higher missions" Ruskin.
• Mother and Child
  A picture of the early Flemish school, painted about 1500 A.D.
• Cotter's Saturday Night
  The child is having his first ride on a steady trusty steed, "warranted soung" and "well broken."
• Tyndale translating the Bible
  Tyndale lived for a time with a London alderman, and studied most part of the day at his book, and "would eat but sodden meat by his good will, and drink but small single beer." The book at which he studied was the Bible. But the translation of the Bible into English was not to be done in England, and to avoid persecution Tyndale had to fly to Germany. He finished teh New Testament there in 1525, and in 1526 six thousand copies of the New Testament in English were sent over to England.
• Rotterdam
  The statue on the right of the picture is of Erasmus, the scholar of the Reformation.
• Virgin and Child
  A picture painted when life was so simple that a representation of a well-known home helped men understand God. The great masters painted the Virgin and child in likeness of the people they knew; in their eyes every home had the possibility of the highest.
• A London Garden
  A picture of the flowers that may still be grown in London Gardens--the little human flower amond the rest, "herself the fairest of them all."
• Procession of Children
  Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smile to-day, To-morrow will be dying. --Herrick.
• Children at play
  A picure of what our children's playgrounds ought to be. "The Children are blissful, just in the degree that they are natural; and the fairyland she creates for you is not beyond the sky nor beneath the sea, but nigh you, even at your doors. She does shew you how to see it, and how to cherish." --Ruskin.
• Indian Ladies taking their evening drive
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• On a Battlefield
  Flowers bloom where men have fought and bled. ("I sometimes think that never blows so red The rose as were some buried Caesar bled.") But to the mourner there is still sorrow in the air.
• Roman Peasants in the Campagna
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• Roman girl and her brother drawing water
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• Goring Mill
  Goring is one of the prettiest places on the Thames, near Reading.
• "One of the '45"
  The friend of the Stuarts rose against the Georges in 1745. This portrait shows how, to some, it was a hard duty to fight against fellow-countrymen, and how full of danger the fight was.
• Commercial activity in the East
  An ironmonger's, a carpet dealers's, and a drapers' shop in a Cairo street. Business men there live for other things than money-making; they busy themselves with living, as well as with obtaining a livelihood. They enjoy the beautiful things they sell, and somtimes take, as well as pursue, repose.
• Return from Market ; Summer Evening
  Cuyp, who was a brewer by trade, was a Dutch artist (A.D. 1605-1691), especially good at painting sunlight, "the best that Holland's sun can show." There are several of his pictures in the National Gallery.