EMERGING PICTURES. 



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Our tableau truly a tableau vivant is that presented by 

 the wings of a butterfly those of the " Admirable " (Atalanta), 

 as they grow in size and put on their colours before the eye 

 fortunate enough to see the process of their first expansion. 



A dozen more such tableaux successively present them- 

 selves, each, like the last, emerging, and displaying endless 

 variations in design, in touch, in style, in colouring. Some 

 are light and airy as a day of spring ; some, gay as summer ; 

 some, rich and glowing as the autumn landscape ; some, grave 

 and sombre as the wintry forest, but, like that, presenting 

 graceful forms and delicate tracery, brown and branching. 



Now, with the orchestra's concluding strain, the last pic- 

 ture has emerged, a curtain drops, and the gallery is about to 

 close. 



