Almost immediately came the commission to decorate the Criminal Court Buildings of the Courts of Oyer and Terminer in the city of New York, which he worked out with enthusiasm. The subject represented is Justice, in the shape of a stately, dignified figure with a globe in one hand and the scales in the other. He draped this figure in an American flag; a hard problem, but cleverly worked out. The side panels to the right represent the Three Fates; those to the left, Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Then came the commission for decorating the Congressional Library at Washington. He chose as his subject the nine muses. Following this he received many commissions for work in private residences, and for a series of paintings for the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City. Simmons was one of the original members of the Ten American Painters, and is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. PREPARED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION ILLUSTRATION FOR THE MENTOR, VOL. 2, No. 15. SERIAL No. 67 COPYRIGHT, 1914. BY THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION. INC. [Illustration: FROM A COPLEY PRINT. COPYRIGHT BY CURTIS & CAMERON, INC. HOSEA--DETAIL OF THE PROPHETS, BY JOHN SARGENT IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS] “Hosea,” a detail of the frieze of “The Prophets,” by John Singer Sargent, in the Public Library, Boston, is the subject of one of the intaglio-gravure pictures illustrating “American Mural Painters.” JOHN SINGER SARGENT Monograph Number Five in The Mentor Reading Course John Singer Sargent has been called the most “modern of moderns, one of the most dazzling men of talent of the present day.” Sargent is in reality an American only by parentage; for he was born at Florence, Italy, on January 12, 1858, and since 1884 has lived in London. Sargent’s father was Dr. Fitzwilliam Sargent, a distinguished Boston physician. Sargent as a child was very sensitive, and was greatly influenced by the art treasures of his birthplace. He received his early education in Italy and Germany, and his impressionable nature amid such surroundings was shaped by the atmosphere of the famous Tuscan city, which left its refining mark upon all his work. The parents of many artists of genius have attempted to dissuade their sons from becoming painters. On the contrary, however, Sargent’s parents encouraged him to draw from the canvases of Veronese, Titian, and Tintoretto.