“Five hundred dollars a year!” echoed Fanny Bellairs, as the first silver gray of the twilight spread over her picture. “And my art,” modestly added the painter, prying into his bright copy of the lips pronouncing upon his destiny. “And how much may that be, at the present rate of patronage–one picture a year, painted […]

THE ancient fable of two antagonistic spirits imprisoned in one body, equally powerful and having the complete mastery by turns-of one man, that is to say, inhabited by both a devil and an angel seems to have been realized, if all we hear is true, in the character of the extraordinary man whose name we […]