thought - the orchestration, if the word be permissable [sic], of this beautiful motive of youth's wonderment and foreboding. Rembrandt has most wisely abstained from any attempt to impart to the cavalier's features the expression of effort and momentariness that they would naturally wear in this swift ride across space and solitude. The aspiring thought in the midst of gloom and mystery - this, we repeat, is the main motive, and not the swiftness of the ride of the dexterity of the cavalier. Exception may be taken to the anatomy of the horse moving a thwart the foreground, but the head of the animal has something of the grandeur, the clear-

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