Show Rome and Washington I in The gaidty of Rome says Aglaia the Boston Traveler is very much like that of Washington It is a society where all know everybody and yetit is constantly constant-ly being improved by the introduction of agreeable foreigners The court circle the diplomatic circle the religious circle are all pleasantly posed in such a salon and at for instance as that of Mrs Story the house of Mr Astor or in some English Eng-lish salons In these various houses which are neither white nor black the In various political feuds are forgotten another circle I am afraid it is the literary liter-ary and artistic are the most undying I feuds and quarrels such as we should I deem almost unbecoming in a small villa i vil-la e teaparty circle This small gossipy side of Rome is its poorest side I have just come from Mr Storys studio where I have seen his last best work the Cleopatra Cleo-patra He has made a true serpent of old Nile this time and she is a most beautiful serpent She recalls the famous poem which has done so much to make Mr Storys fame She is reclining on the tirer skin the tiger herself which once I she was according to her own statement I I eons of time ago and is tigerish now I in the clay the rich warm clay of the j I Tiber which is a fine medium of expression J I 1 1 expres-sion We had the pleasure of seeing also the very clever basreliefs of Mr which are in the spirit of i i Story Waldo the truest Greek art Waldo Story has Ian I I-an original genius of his own and it very j I delicate and very powerful I |