_Thomas W. Shields_ 314
AN ANECDOTE ABOUT BEETHOVEN, _Paul Leyendecker_ 322
FRANZ LISZT, _Fortune-Joseph-Seraphin
Layraud_ 334
WAGNER AND HIS FRIENDS, _Wilhelm Beckmann_ 340
RACHEL AS THE MUSE OF GREEK TRAGEDY, _Jean Leon Gerome_ 368
JOE JEFFERSON AS BOB ACRES, _From life_ 376

WOOD-ENGRAVINGS AND TYPOGRAVURES

RAPHAEL INTRODUCED TO DA VINCI, _Brune Pages_ 212
LEO X. AT RAPHAEL'S BIER, _Pietro Michis_ 224
A FETE AT THE HOUSE OF TITIAN, _F. Kraus_ 228
ALBERT DUeRER'S WEDDING, _A. Bodenmueller_ 232
HOGARTH SKETCHING THE HIGHWAY OF
QUEENBOROUGH, 248
BENJAMIN WEST, PRESIDENT OF THE
ROYAL ACADEMY, _Sir Thomas Lawrence_ 258
ROSA BONHEUR, _E. Dubufe_ 278
HANDEL'S RIVER-CONCERT FOR GEORGE I., _A. Hamman_ 304
HAYDN COMPOSING HIS "CREATION," _A. Hamman_ 318
PAGANINI IN PRISON, _Louis Boulanger_ 326
GARRICK AS RICHARD III., _William Hogarth_ 346
FORREST AS METAMORA, _From Photograph_ 352
CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN AS MRS. HALLER, _Watkins_ 360

PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS

PHIDIAS[1]

[Footnote 1: Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.]

By CLARENCE COOK

(ABOUT 500-432 B.C.)

Phidias, one of the greatest sculptors the world has seen, and whose
name has become, as it were, the synonym of his art, was born at
Athens about 500 B.C. He belonged to a family of artists, none of whom
indeed were distinguished in their profession, but their varied
occupations furnished the atmosphere in which such a talent as that of
Phidias could best be fostered and brought to maturity. His father was
Charmides, who is believed to have been an artist, because the Greeks,
in their inscriptions, did not associate the name of the father with
that of the son unless both were of the same calling. A brother of
Phidias, Panoenos, was a painter, and is mentioned among those
artists, twenty or more in number, who in conjunction with Polygnotus,
one of the chief painters of his day, were employ