Raphael has made infinite grace, obvious to unmaternal eyes; Turner opened to many a preoccupied vision, the winders of atmosphere; Constable guided our perception of the casual globe, of physical grandeur; Rolyfe, of fish; Gerard Dow, of cattle; Cuyp, of meadows; Cooper, of cattle; Stanfield, of the sea; and so on through every department of pictorial art. Insensibly these quiet but persuasive teachers have made every phase and object of the material world interesting, environed them with more or less romance, by such revelations of their latent beauty and meaning; so that, thus instructed, the sunset and the pastoral landscape, the moss-grown arch and the craggy seaside, the twilight grove and the swaying cornfield, an old mill, a peasant, light and shade, form and feature, perspective and anatomy, a smile, a gesture, a cloud, a waterfall, weatherstains, leaves, deer—every object in nature, and every impress of the elements, speaks more effectively to the imagination.—Henry T. Tucker.

Yankee Tourists in Switzerland. About 10 percent of the victors to the various resorts in Switzerland during the summer of 1922 were from the United States, according to Swiss estimates forwarded to the department of commerce by A. S. McOruder, secretary to the legation at Berne. The estimate places the flatteries of Swiss visitors at about half of the total; England's contribution at 19 percent; France, 7 percent Metzwad, 5,6 percent and Germany, 4 percent.  Per cent. More than 50 percent of the whole visit the first-class hotels are Astoria, Mr. McGruder states, for the betterment of the British, with less than 20 percent. 