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Show POPE'S PICTURE AT PARIS. There is a picture of Pope Ijf at the Pa-is exposition before which, "ays a eorresnondpnt of the daily press, the erowd of reverential sight-seers seems never to lessen. It was painted b lien-iamin lien-iamin Constant, who. it is said, has never done a finer piece of work, indeed, in-deed, it is difficult at this moment to think of any portrait in which the -art of a soul" ha3 been bo completely indicated. Then. too. in the frewn of the profile, the sweet smile, in the attitude of the figure lies not only a feHir.g of actuality, but the personi-fuation personi-fuation of the head of the church. It is not only the best thing that Benjamin Benja-min Constant has ever done, but a masterpiece of French art. |