female figures which he knows how to draw with so
firm a hand.
The heroine, whom we first see in a picture that startles the world from its place on the walls of the Academy, is the finest of the three ; then comes the solitary old woman, who so steadfastly keeps before her the purpose of her life ; and then, as a specimen of an utterly different type, the amiable, somewhat shallow girl whom every one praises. The heroine has all the makings of a Medea; and her lover, whom she suspects, quite wrongly, of fickleness, nearly meets the fate which Jason would have met had be been imprudent enough to trust himself within reach of the Colchian fury. As for the story, we must own that we found that the first and second volumes seemed to drag somewhat; the third, however, amply redeemed their shortcomings. It tells the catastrophe of the drama in a very striking and effective way.
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