Barrachin, in white draperies with a crown of pink laurel, the costumes were beautiful.  One graceful woman went as Tanagra.  The men were some of them splendid in the garb of old Greek warriors, wearing cuirass and helmet of gold.  At dessert a bevy of pretty girls in classic costume distributed flowers and fruits to the guests, while Greek choruses sung by female choristers alternated with verses admirably recited by Bartel and Reichenberg.  After the banquet Emma Calve and Mme. Litoinne sang passages from ‘Philemon et Bacus,’ and then there were Greek dances executed by the leading dancers of the Opera.  After supper and much gayety, the evening came to a close by an animated farandole danced by all present.  It takes an artist like Madeleine Lemaire to design and execute such a fete, and beside it how commonplace appear the costly functions given by society in Newport and New York.”

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LEVICK, RUBY WINIFRED. At the South Kensington Royal College of Art this artist gained the prize for figure design; the medal for a study of a head from life, besides medals and other awards in the National Competition; British Institution scholarship for modelling, 1896; gold medal and the Princess of Wales scholarship, 1897; gold medal in national competition, 1898.  Member of the Ridley Art Club.  Born in Llandaff, Glamorganshire.

This sculptor has exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy since 1898.  Among her works are “Boys Wrestling,” group in the round; “Study of a Boy,” a statuette; “Fishermen Hauling in a Net,” “Boys Fishing,” “The Hammer Thrower,” “Rugby Football,” and the “Sea Urchin,” a statuette.

Miss Levick has executed a panel for the reredos in St. Brelade’s Church, Jersey; and another for St. Gabriel’s Church, Poplar.  She exhibited at the Academy, 1903, “Sledgehammers:  Portion of a Frieze in Relief.”

LEWIS, EDMONIA. Born in the State of New York.  This artist descended from both Indian and African ancestors.  She had comparatively no instruction, when, in 1865, she exhibited in Boston a portrait bust of Colonel Shaw, which at once attracted much attention.  In 1867 she exhibited a statue called the “Freedwoman.”  Soon after this she took up her residence in Rome and very few of her works were seen in the United States.  She sent to the Philadelphia exhibition, in 1876, the “Death of Cleopatra,” in marble.  The Marquis of Bute bought her “Madonna with the Infant Christ,” an altar-piece.  Her “Marriage of Hiawatha” was purchased by a New York lady.

Among her other works are “An Old Arrow-Maker and His Daughter,” “Asleep,” and terra-cotta busts of Charles Sumner, Longfellow, John Brown, and others.