JUSTINIAN AND HIS COUNCIL, _Benjamin Constant_ _Frontispiece_
MOSES IN THE BULRUSHES, _Paul Delaroche_ 2
THE VICTORS OF SALAMIS, _Fernand Cormon_ 32
DEMOSTHENES PRACTISING ORATORY, _Jules Jean
Lecomte-du-Nouy_ 48
AUGUSTUS CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA, _August von Heckel_ 66
LOUIS XI. AND OLIVIER LE DAIN, _Hermann Kaulbach_ 112
MARTIN LUTHER BEFORE THE COUNCIL OF
WORMS, _E. Delperte_ 130
CHARLES V. ON HIS WAY TO THE CONVENT, _Hermann Schneider_ 138
MOLIERE AT BREAKFAST WITH LOUIS XIV., _Jean Leon Gerome_ 198