M. Cormon has been a pupil of Cabanel, Portaels, and Fromentin, the latter two of these geniuses, alas no more,- and infinite credit he does to his masters. As a good picture should do, it tells its own story. On the following page we add a translation, describing the incident of our engraving, from the "Ramayana" of Valmike. M. Cormon was born in Paris, and studied as we have seen under three great masters. At the Salon of 1873 he received a medal of the second class. "The Death of Ravana" is the only picture Which Cormon sends; but in the Pavilion of the City of Paris there are several works by this young artist, one an allegorical subject called "Education," painted in gray tone for a panel; another, to match the "Education" in size and color, " Beneficence;" both of these are let into the wall of the Salon for Marriages, in the Mayor's Office of the fourth arrondissement, or ward, in Paris. Near to these are four subjects, intended for the ceiling of the same room; they represent "Birth," "Death," "Marriage," "War;" they are each nine feet high, and nineteen feet long, and remind us of the similar work on the ceilings of the palaces in Italy by Paul Veronese. To give an explanation of their relative positions, the artist has made and exhibited a sketch showing the four subjects as they will appear when put in place.