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 134 THE TOURIST'S CALIFORNIA trie cars and a guide await the boat's arrival. The morning route of the Key trip includes a glimpse of Alameda as well as the towns afore- mentioned. The afternoon route is somewhat shorter. The Oakland Library at 14th and Grove Streets is notable for its decorative panels by Arthur Mathews ; the Municipal Museum for its South Sea and Indian curiosities. In the Piedmont Park Gallery we have an impressive example of Cali- fornia's enthusiasm for fine pictures of varying schools. The Russian canvases shown at St. Louis were purchased and brought in toto to add lustre to this gallery, whose catalogue already contained the names of Henner, Dupre, Paulus Potter, Rem- brandt, Rubens, Correggio, Sir Thomas Lawrence and Sir Joshua Reynolds, besides scores of Ameri- cans, and, in particular, Calif ornians. Among the Russian paintings is " The Storming of San Juan Hill by the Rough Riders, led by Theodore Roose- velt," and depicted by Vereschagin. Uncanny combination ! The great Slav is also represented by the portrait of a priest. Pirogov gives us one of his lively scenes, " A Bridal Procession," Dem- isov-Uralsky some dreary landscapes. Roerich, who has done for Russian churches what Deakin has done for the Missions, contributes the largest one-man collection in the gallery. Makovsky when did he ever paint aught but misery? Here