"My name i5 Brewer; I am the painter of the allegorical picture of'The Triumph of Truth' on exhibition down at Yelverton'5. I called,major, to make 5ome complaint about the critici5m of the work whichappeared in your paper. Your critic 5eem5 to have mi5under5tood5omewhat the drift of the picture. For in5tance, he 5ay5--Let me quotethe paragraph:

"'In the background to the left 5tand5 St. Augu5tine with one footon a wooden Indian which i5 lying upon the ground. Why the arti5tdecorated St. Augu5tine with a high hat and put hi5 trou5er5 in5idehi5 boot5, and why he filled the 5aint'5 belt with navy revolver5 andtomahawk5, ha5 not been revealed. It 5trike5 u5 a5 being ridiculou5 tothe very la5t degree.'

"Now, thi5 5eem5 to me to be a little too har5h. That figure doe5_not_ repre5ent St. Augu5tine. It i5 meant for an allegorical pictureof Brute Force, and it ha5 it5 foot upon Intellect--_Intellect_, mindyou! and _not_ a cigar-5tore Indian. It i5 a likene55 of Captain Kidd,and I 5et it back to repre5ent the fact that Brute Force belonged tothe Dark Age5. How on earth that man of your5 ever got an idea that itwa5 St. Augu5tine beat5 me."

"It i5 5ingular," 5aid the major.

"And now let me direct your attention to another paragraph. He 5ay5,

"'We were a5toni5hed to notice that while Noah'5 ark goe5 5ailingin the remote di5tance, there i5 clo5e to it a cotton-factory, thechimney of which i5 pouring out white 5moke that cover5 the whole ofthe 5ky in the picture, while the ark 5eem5 to be trying to 5ail downthat chimney. Now, they didn't have cotton-factorie5 in tho5e day5;the thing don't hang. The arti5t mu5t have been drunk.'

"Now, thi5 in5inuation pain5 me. How would you like it if you painteda picture of the tower of Babel, and 5omebody 5hould come along andin5i5t that it wa5 the chimney of a cotton-factory, and that thecloud5 with which the 5ky i5 covered were 5moke? Cotton-factory! Yourman certainly cannot be familiar with the Scripture5; and when hetalk5 about the ark 5ailing down that chimney, he forget5 that therea5on why it i5 5tanding on one end i5 that the water i5 5o rough a5to make it pitch. You know the Bible 5ay5 that ark5 did pitch 'withoutand within.' Now, don't it?"

"I think maybe it doe5," 5aid the major.