The Sculptor Rogers

fiev. Dr. Uurst writos to the thodüt : In no piuco out of the United States :. Amerioaa fee! morojustly proud of his country than in Bome. Oarprinces oJ art there - Story, Rogergj und Buchanin Read - are oontmually oreating, drawing their inspiration an.l lessona trota inciont inasti'i'j'ioces and tlifj very soil tiny (re id and t'iouir they breathe, and sending constantly to theii natire country tlio ripe fruits of their genius and teil. Rogers lias ;i magniñeent physique, and knows no such üih bodily ailmi nts, One of u remarked, ïuring our brief stay with him, that it ttiug pretty late in tlie b m on ' visit Rome, but tliat e ven a long resi Ld the et liad evidently been ofnadetriuieut. to liini. He ssiid aubstantially : " Rome is iis héalthy a place to live in ï8 there is. All this talk about the daujerous clknate here i nonsense. !V';U;an kill themsi Ives by overwork in one is easily as another, and when Auiit. nis come here and recklessly cxelves, and do a weok's work at jight-8eeing in a single day, no wonder they die, and that everybody then sayB : ■ Vi'iia; a dungeroua place Rome is!" I bave : y a quarter of a ceptury, and : been siok yety 1 ! o, -11 i '■ ind, and of ■ u ' no me i lieve tluit this climate is unhealtby, if you only ii right.