For the rest, we have plenty of archæological painters, who painfully restore antiquity for us, following accurate authorities and examples. The curiosity to know the past, which has created a literature of its own, the researches of travellers and of learned men, the excavations made in Greece, in Asia Minor, in Africa, at Pompeii, have led many artists to search for new effects in this direction. Every one will recall the circuses and the Roman scenes of Gérôme. This year he exhibits hardly anything but modern Oriental subjects--Turkish baths, Bashi-Bazouks and lions--but his pupils have now taken the place which their master held in 1867. Hector Leroux, one of the thousand and one painters of this Neo-Grecian school, shows us a _Toilette of Minerva Polias_ and _A Miracle in the Temple of Vesta_, his most celebrated work. Gustave Boulanger exhibits his _Roman Baths_, his _Roman Comedians rehearsing their Rôles_, and his _Roman Promenades_, which the wealthiest amateurs, MM. Aguado, André, Stebbins, contended for at the late Salons; M. Lecomte du Nouy his _Pharoah slaying the Bearers of Evil Tidings_ and his _Homer Begging_; while M. Alma-Tadema completes the group with his best-known pictures, including _The Studio of an Antique Painter_, _An Audience at the House of Agrippa_, and _The Vintage at Rome_, which was also at Philadelphia. Americans will remember the young reddish-haired priestess of Ceres, so elegantly attired and _coiffée_, advancing with torch in hand and followed by flute-players. The details, which are multiplied almost to profusion, are all calculated to enhance the effect, and are distributed with exquisite art. The amount of research which this work suggests is almost incredible, and it was perhaps a more laborious undertaking to paint the _Vintage at Rome_ than to write the Carthaginian romance of Gustave Flaubert. Alma-Tadema exhibits in the English gallery, and his contribution has raised the average of that section by a good third. If I have spoken of this painter in connection with the pupils of Gérôme, it is that, considering his place of birth (Dromvyp, Netherlands), I think that I have an equal right with the English to classify him according to my fancy.