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of peace on a salver, and behind him the Jesuits crouch and fawn with terror in their eyes, lest the sword lying idle on the knees of the kinsr shall find a sheath in their own bodies. The types are perfectly rendered, the expressions are individual and the heads full of character. The richness of the stuffs and the variety of the costumes, the waving banners and barbaric skin-dresses and feather ornaments, are all painted with hardy touch and picturesquely combined. The third and last picture represents the harangue of the eloquent priest Searga, before the king and his ministers in the cathedral at Cracow. In the wild, nervous gestures of the patriot, declaiming with all his force against the dissolution of the times, there is much nature. As in the other two the composition is pleasingly original ? but the color is less effective though the general tone ls more harmonious. In his portraits, of which he exposed Seven , Matejko is successful in so far that he represents his sitter with religious truth, often, it is reported, giving offence % the accuracy of the likenesses. His love for distinctive types of face, and his wonderful facility in the delineation of character, is plain in all his portraits. The heads are often brutally painted, and the tones, though strong, are not always pleasing. One of his best efforts is a group of three Polish children in their national costume. Broadly painted, and ''ith charming delicacy of expression, it ranks among the fighest works of the class in the Exposition. In Matejko "e have an artist w 7 ho does with all his heart the work he as pu - es to do, and his productions are stamped with the impless of spontaneous artistic talent;—an impulse to illustrate, no obstacles delay, that urges him on with a power that 0lll y finds satisfaction in spirited compositions boldly rendered. ^ A very skilfully painted and well-drawn group, by Heinrich ugeli, R e v en ger of his Honor , illustrates, as the name Sll »gests, a scene full of commotion. The husband bursts ln to the midst of a dinner-party, to find his wife in the com- fiTp auo ^ er g en ^ em an, and, after the true romance fion, runs his sword through the adventurer, w r ho sinks - ln g to the floor. The cavaliers attempt to rush at the ai 'd but are kept back by his attendants ;—a dramatic cene and full 0 f varied expressions, worked out wfith little Xa ggeration and forcing of sentiment. Angeli also exposed