ROSINA EMMET SHERWOOD.

 cated-and also to preserve two old ballads, "Pretty Peggy" and
 "Pray, Papa, which had been sung by her grandfather and handed
 down as literary heirlooms in the family. Pretty Peggy," with Kate
 Greenaway's Under the Window," may be said to have led the
 modern procession of artistic "color books."
 In 1884, Miss Emmet went to Paris, and studied drawing for six
 months at Julien's, the art school where most American art students
 go, sooner or later.
 Soon after this Miss Emmet was married, to Mr. Arthur Murray
 Sherwood; and new duties arose
 Sin the way of further study and
 Travel, and very much limited
 o i.. the quantity of her work. Nev-
 ef'o -un ertheless the quality of her
 -. painting has steadily advanced,
 fn aand her more important pictures
 of child-life have been painted
 since her marriage -pictures
 which have given her a dis-
 tinguished place among Ameri-
 can artists.
 Something of Mrs. Sher-
 wood's personality is shown by
 .I the accompanying portrait (in
 "fancy dress), which is the first
 she has ever given for publica-
 N tion. It is from an amateur
 BLOWING BUBBLES. photograph made in 1889 by
 (From a water-color.) her sister, Miss Lydia Emmet,
who is herself an artist of recognized talent. The child perched on
the flower-urn is Mrs. Sherwood's little son, Arthur Murray, Jr.
 Mrs. Sherwood has worked successfully in oils, and in pastel, but
finds a more natural expression in water-colors, and the larger part of
her later work has been in that medium. She has also made many draw-
ings m black-and-white for the children's magazines, and also for older
publications, her most recent work in this line being the illustrations