of boundless Mystery and nameless Love, with a rapture of calmness, a vision of heaven, a perfect communion of the Father confessing with electric shudders of awe and joy the motions of the Spirit, as God's hand wanders solemnly among the chords of the heart.

In conclusion, I will specify the principal traits which belong in a distinctive degree to Oriental poetry. The first one that attracts notice is an airy, winged, exultant liberty of spirit, an unimpeded largeness and ease of movement, and intense enthusiasm. This gives birth to extravagance. Compare in this respect the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments" with the "Waverley Novels." Its lower form is a revelling or deliberate fancy, abounding in lawless conceits, sometimes puerile, sometimes amazing. "The bird of understanding hath fled from the nest of my brain." sun in the zenith is a golden falcon hovering over his azure nest." The higher form of this trait is the spontaneous transport of an inspired and free imagination, producing the most stupendous conceptions, infusing a divine soul through all dead substance, melting everything into its own molds, filling a new universe with new marvels of beauty and delight.

From the "Poetry of the East."

MICHAEL ANGELO IN HIS STUDIO.

After the Painting by Alexander Cabanel.

E figure of Moses on which the painter has made Michael Angelo fix his eyes is the most famous and perhaps the greatest work of the great sculptor. Cabanel (1823-1389) was noted as a historical, genre, and portrait painter. He won the grand prize of Rome in 1845 and at his death, January 234, 1889, he was one of the acknowledge masters of the French school of historical painting.