Good Roaming Catholics.
The Sisters of Charity.
A VISIT TO "SHERIDAN'S RIDE."
PHILADELPHIA, March 26, 1870.
DEAR PUNCHINELLO:
Taking my way along Chestnut Street a few days since, I found my progress arrested at Tenth Street by a great current of humanity, that swept with resistless force into the entrance to the Academy of Fine Arts.
I, too, entered, and, passing around the familiar group of the "Centaurs and Lapithæ," which stands beneath the dome, was hurried breathlessly onward by the throng, until I found myself face to face with that chef-d'oeuvre of modern art, T. BUCHANAN READ'S painting of "SHERIDAN'S Ride."
Give the reins to your imagination, now, (a little horse-talk is appropriate here,) and behold one thousand men and women, of refined and cultivated tastes, doing tearful homage to the genius of the great Poetaster—pardon me, Mr. T.B.R., Poet-artist was what I meant to have said.