ROSINA EMMET SHERWOOD.

cause. The next year, having spent his fortune in arming his com-
patriots, he planned the capture of Dublin Castle, and along with it
the viceroy, the English governor of Ireland. The plot failed, but
Emmet escaped.
 The young patriot, however, had a sweetheart Sarah Curran,
daughter of Curran the great Irish orator. For a farewell interview
with her, Emmet came
"down from his hiding-
place in the mountains,
was captured, tried, and
the very next day hanged
in Dublin. The tragedy
thus begun reached its
end not long after, in
the death of the broken-
hearted Sarah Curran in
Sicily. It inspired a fa-
"mous poem of Moore's:

"She is far from the land where
 her young hero sleeps."

 Half a century after
Robert Emmet was ex-
ecuted in Dublin, his
great-grand-niece, Rosina
Emmet, to-day a painter
of charming children, was
born in New York Dec.
13, 1854.
 Several women of the MRS. ROSINA EMMET SHERWVOOD AND ARTHUR MURRA"
Emmet family, in the SHERWOOD, JR.
 (From photograph by Miss Lydia Emmet.)
years between Robert and
Rosina, were artists of remarkable talent; and Rosina's own mother was
a painter, a pupil of Daniel Huntington, President of the National
Academy.
 It is not strange, therefore, that Rosina and her twin brother, the