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Rh branch of art, she spent four years in Europe, studying ancient sculpture, drawing, and modelling, chiefly in Rome and Paris. In this period she made many sketches and modelled several statues, among them the "Chaldean Astronomer," "Toussaint L'Ouverture," and "Roma." In the latter Miss Whitney personi- fied the Rome of Pio Nono's time, "Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe," a beggar "whose aged and wrinkled face shows traces of early, majestic beauty. She sits on a broken Corinthian capital, with her head bowed in profound reverie."

After her return, with increased technical skill, enlarged conceptions of art, and the inspiration born of years of contact and communion with the great masterpieces of the world, Miss Whitney resumed her work in the studio, and continued to design and model. She executed several commissions for portrait busts, which gave entire satisfaction to the large constituencies interested. Among these were busts of President Stearns of Amherst College, President Walker of Harvard, of Garrison, of the poet Keats, of Mrs. Livermore, Lucy Stone, Alice Freeman Palmer, and many others. One of her best works is the statue of the Revolutionary patriot, Samuel Adams, which she was commissioned by the State of Massachusetts to execute for the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Of this statue a reproduction in bronze was ordered for the city of Boston; and, having been put in place, it gave the name to Adams Square.

Of later date is Miss Whitney's portrait statue of Harriet Martineau, representing her in the prime of life, sitting in a garden chair, her face raised, her thought far-reaching. This statue was exhibited in Boston in 1888, and is now at Wellesley College.

An ideal figure in bronze, commended as a "work of rare genius in physical detail," and a "notable addition to the public decorations of the city" of Boston, is that of Leif Ericson, standing on the edge of Back Bay Fens, just beyond Commonwealth Avenue parkway.

The dedication of this statue, on October 29, 1887, was an occasion of rare interest. At a meeting in Faneuil Hall, presided over by Dr. Edward Everett Hale, a scholarlv address relating to the Norscnicn and their discoveries was given by Professor E. N. Horsford. The statue of Leif Ericson is of heroic size. It stands on a pedestal of red sandstone, being about eighteen feet in height. The figure is symbolical. It represents a youth gazing eagerly at the distant horizon, his left hand partially shading his eyes, not from the light on sea or land to-day, but from the glory of the future, as he dimly forecasts the events of coming centuries in the new land that meets his vision. The inscription on one side of the pedestal, giving the date of the voyage of Leif the discoverer, is in runic characters. On the opposite side it is in English. A replica of this statue is in Milwaukee on the shore of Lake Michigan.

A later production, a statue of Charles Sumner, in sitting posture, completed about three years ago, has received the recognition of critics. It is in Cambridge.

Still more recent is a bronze fountain in memory of a woman of rare beauty of character—Mrs. Catherine Lambert—which was put in place in West Newton in September, 1903. A HI}' held in the upraised hands of a sturdy little cherub is the cup whence issues the sparkling spray.

Miss Whitney took up her residence in Boston in 1872. For a number of years she had her home and her studio at 92 Mount Vernon Street. She is now in the locality designated as the "New Back Bay," where, in a smaller studio than the former one, the sculptor's chisel still displacing the long-discarded pen, her high poetic thought continues to find its truest expression.

ARONESS ROSE POSSE, director of the Posse Gymnasium, Boston, is successfully carrying on the work begin by her late husband. Baron Posse. Her maiden name was Rose Moore Smith. Born in Newburyport, Mass., the daughter of Foster W. and Catherine M. (Ballou) Smith, she is descended from good old English stock, which, we are told, has been traced back to the time of Cromwell. Her paternal grand- father, Foster Smith, who married Jane Ger-