And those who can feel the effect of any art are very many more than those who can practice it or criticise it.

It does not matter that my Bohemian friend's musical abilities are slender.
No man in the great Boston Jubilee got more out of Johann Strauss, in his "Kunstleben," that inimitable expression of inspired vagabondage, than he did.

And so, though Albert Charlton could not have told you what colors would "go together," as the ladies say, he could, none the less, always feel the discord of his mother's dress, as now he felt the beauty of the room and appreciated the genius of Isa, that had made so much out of resources so slender.

For there were only a few touch-me-nots in the two vases on the mantel-piece; there were wild-flowers and prairie-grasses over the picture-frames; there were asparagus-stalks in the fireplace; there was--well, there was a _tout-ensemble_ of coolness and delightfulness, of freshness and repose.

There was the graceful figure of Isabel by the window, with the yet dewy grass and the distant rolling, boundless meadow for a background.