THE APE-MAN.

Photogravure from a painting by Gabriel Max.

Professor Max has long been known to the greater public trough those won erful pictures in which sume tragic fate, some heart-break of markind, has found expression; but only an Inner circle of intimates has know the arust as an able student of nature. He has thought much and deeply upon the existence ad origin. of things; and his studies in corisarative anatomy have given biL. russel preparation for the treatment of the present subject. The entire picture is made up of yellowisa and brownish-gray tores, expressive of the twilight of the forest. The skin of the female is about the shade of that of the Southern Eurovean of t day, that of the male is darker. The most interesting of the three figures is the young ave-inother. who reclines against a tree trunk and offers her breast to her firstborn. The expression of the face is remarkable; happiness at the possession of the child mingles with misgiving for its future. The tear which trembles won her cheek 'seems indicative of the flood of tears which is to run down the history of her descendants. The father has less of this feeling, and stands upright beside his wife and child and looks down upon them with an air of pride and paternal joy. original painting is owned by the celebrated Darwinian philosopher Ernest Haeckel of Jena.

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