account of his heroine fitted his own creation.  The Nydia was started with the idea of presenting the helplessness of blindness, with a hint of the exaltation of the other senses that is consequent upon the loss of sight, and showed at first merely a girl groping along a wall in search of a door; and the Arethusa was the outgrowth of a general inspiration caused by a reading of Spenser’s Faerie Queen, and did not receive its present very appropriate name until its exhibition made some designation necessary.

I have devoted this study on of Mr. Fuller to his quality as an artist rather than to his character as a man, but shall have written in vain if some hint has not been given of the loveliness of his disposition, the modesty of his spirit, the chaste force of his mind.  A man inevitably paints as he himself is, and shows his nature in his works:  Fuller’s pictures are founded upon purity of thought, and painted with dignity and single-heartedness, and the grace of his life dwells in them.

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[GEORGE FULLER was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, in 1822.  He was descended from old Puritan stock, and his ancesters were among the early settlers of the Connecticut River valley.  He inherited a taste for art, as an uncle and several other relatives of the previous generation were painters, although none of them attained any particular reputation.  He began painting by himself at the age of about sixteen years, and at the age of twenty entered the studio of Henry K. Brown, of Albany, New York, where he received his first and only direct instruction.  His work, until the age of about forty years, was almost entirely devoted to portraits; but he is best known, and will be longest remembered, for his ideal work in figure and landscape painting, which he entered upon about 1860, but did not make his distinctive field until 1876.  From the latter date, to the time of his death, he painted many important works, and was pecuniarily successful.  He received probably the largest prices ever paid to an American artist for single figures:  $3,000 for the Winifred Dysart, and $4,000 each for the Priscilla and Evening; Lorette.  He died in Boston on the twenty-first of March, 1884, leaving a widow, four sons, and a daughter.  During May, a memorial exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Fine Arts.—­EDITOR.]

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THE LOYALISTS OF LANCASTER.

By HENRY S. NOURSE.

The outburst of patriotic rebellion in 1775 throughout Massachusetts was so universal, and the controversy so hot with the wrath of a people politically wronged, as well as embittered by the hereditary rage of puritanism against prelacy, that the term tory comes down to us in history loaded with a weight of opprobrium not legitimately its own.  After the lapse of a hundred years the word is perhaps no longer synonymous with everything traitorous and vile, but when it is