The Pictures When the pictures are not facing the page^given they ore inside the set of pictures beginning on that page St George and the Dragon, "by Fortunino Matania , . Frontispiece The Annunciation, by Donatello....... 8 The Singing Gallery, by Luca della Robbia...... 8 Eros, by Sir Alfred Gilbert..... 9 Minerva at the Vatican . , . . „ . « . 16 The Houses of Parliament . ...... IT The Tower of London......... 17 Women at Prayer, by Alphonse Legros •••••* 32 The Nativity, by Fra Angelieo ,.....«. 32 Salisbury Cathedral.......... 83 Shakespeare's Church......... 83 The Crouching Man in a Verona Church ...... 64 King Charles, by Van Dyck ........ 65 Portrait of a Lady, by Johannes Verspronck * . » • . 80 The Merry Fiddler, by Frank Hals....... 81 Sir Joshua Reynolds, by Himself ....... 112 Shakespeare, by Richard Burbage ....... 112 Sir Walter Raleigh, by an unknown artist .».«,. 113 Sir Walter Scott, by Sir Edwin Landseer ...... 113 The Belfry of Bruges......... 128 Tom Tower, Oxford..... . 129 Magdalen Tower, Oxford ...,.»... 129 The Backs at Cambridge . . . • . » . • . .129 After the Storm, by Josef Israels ....... 144 Miss Murray, by Sir Thomas Lawrence . . 145 Earl Cowper with Countess Cowper and the Gore Family, by Zoffany . 160 The Italian Comedians, by Watteau * . « • * . 160 Dutch Interior, by De Hooch ........ 161 The Pearl Necklace, by Vermeer ....... 161 Lady Hamilton as Diana, by Romney...... 176 Joan of Arc, by Rossetti......... 177 The Sea of Galilee.........* 192 The Garden of Gethseniane........ 192 v> SydneyHarbour...... • . • * 193