Maimed Painter

Terjnyson's line, "And breasts the blows of circunistance, " finds a picturesqne illustration in this paragraph froru The Literary Digest : The righthandof the Russian painter Vereschagin is ihumbless. His right thuinb was bitten by a leopard sorue yeurs ago and had to be ainputated. The middle finger also of his right hand ís lamed and useless as theresult of a shot wound whicfa the artist received on the battleneld. More thau this, the small bones of the center of his right hand vpere also partially shattered by a fall on the Russian steppes, and his right arm was broken in the same accident. Nevertheless it is with this damaged right hand that Vereschagin paints his wonderful pictures.