not how better to show that it is easy to be at once beautiful and true, if one only knows how, than by describing that picture.  Criticise it, I dare not; for I believe that it will surely be ranked hereafter among the very highest works of modern art.  If I find no fault in it, it is because I have none to find; because the first sight of the picture produced in me instantaneous content and confidence.  There was nothing left to wish for, nothing to argue about.  The thing was what it ought to be, and neither more nor less, and I could look on it, not as a critic, but as a learner only.”

This is praise indeed from an Englishman writing of a Frenchwoman’s picture—­an Englishman with no temptation to say what he did not think; and we may accept his words as the exact expression of the effect the picture made on him.

BRUNE, MME. AIMEE PAGES. Medal of second class at Salon of 1831; first class in 1841.  Born in Paris. 1803-66.  Pupil of Charles Meynier.  Painted historical and genre subjects.  In 1831 she exhibited “Undine,” the “Elopement,” “Sleep,” and “Awakening.”  In 1841 a picture of “Moses.”  She painted several Bible scenes, among which were the “Daughter of Jairus” and “Jephthah’s Daughter.”

BUECHMANN, FRAU HELENE. Her pictures have been seen at some annual exhibitions in Germany, but she is best known by her portraits of celebrated persons.  Born in Berlin, 1849.  Pupil of Steffeck and Gussow.  Among her portraits are those of Princess Carolath-Beuthen, Countess Bruehl, Prince and Princess Biron von Kurland, and the youngest son of Prince Radziwill.  She resides in Brussels.

BUTLER, MILDRED A. Associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colors and of the Society of Lady Artists.  Pupil of Naftel, Calderon, and Garstin.  Has exhibited at the Royal Academy and New Gallery.  Her picture called the “Morning Bath,” exhibited at the Academy in 1896, was purchased under the Chantry Bequest and is in the Tate Gallery.  It is a water-color, valued at L50.

Miss Butler exhibited “A Corner of the Bargello, Florence,” at the London Academy in 1903.

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BUTLER, LADY ELIZABETH. Born in Lausanne about 1844.  Elizabeth Southerden Thompson.  As a child this artist was fond of drawing soldiers and horses.  She studied at the South Kensington School, at Florence under Bellucci, and in Rome.  She worked as an amateur some years, first exhibiting at the Academy in 1873 her picture called “Missing,” which was praised; but the “Roll-Call,” of the following year, placed her in the front rank of the Academy exhibitors.  It was purchased by the Queen and hung in Windsor Castle.  She next exhibited the “Twenty-Eighth Regiment at Quatre Bras,” the “Return from Inkerman,” purchased by the Fine Art Society for L3,000.  This was followed by kindred subjects.

In 1890 Lady Butler exhibited “Evicted,” in 1891 the “Camel Corps,” in 1892 “Halt in a Forced March,” in 1895 the “Dawn of Waterloo,” in 1896 “Steady the Drums and Fifes,” in 1902 “Tent Pegging in India,” in 1903 “Within Sound of the Guns.”