"But while you drink with Hal Stern you drink with your chin up, bud.

," said Hal Stern.

" Hal Stern grew anxious.

"It is too late, Hal," George said.

For God's sake, mother, stop!" cried poor Hal.

"I ask pardon for Hal's violence, sir," he said in great state.

"Rulers!" says Hal, putting his hand to his eye, where the poor tutor still bore marks of the late scuffle.

"The head of the family ought to go, mother," says George, adding: "You would make the best soldier, I know that, dearest Hal.

But I must fight George Washington, Hal; and 'tis best I should; for, indeed, I hate him the worst.

Though there never will be any love lost between me and Colonel Washington, it must be owned that your favourite (I am not jealous, Hal) is a brave man and a good officer.

Wilt thou endure it, Hal? FAU.

Her two little daughters, who looked as though they had escaped from a Frans Hals canvas, waited on us while we wolfed the food down.

You, Tom, must in the mid-dle stand, And mark the time, with stick in hand; You, bro-ther Ben, the tongs must take, For they will good tri-an-gles make; Hal clicks the 'bones,' and Em-me-line Will beat her lit-tle tam-bour-ine, And cous-in Fred will drum a-way, And Kate the con-cer-ti-na play.

He had the courage of his method, this youngster, no less than Hals, who also worked his wonders with little paint when this suited his genius best.

Ossian, Fingal i. DUTCH SCHOOL of painting, noted for its exactness of detail and truthfullness to life:For Portraits: Rembrandt, Bol, Flinck, Hals, and Vanderhelst.

Hal Goodwin (A); 18Jul75; R609615.

In this field stand preeminent Van der Heist, Hals, Covaert, Flink, and Bol.... Finally, there are still two important excellences to be recorded of this school of paintingits variety, and its importance as the expression, the mirror, so to speak, of the country.

"In one hour I saw there twenty canvases commenced; a hundred designsdrawings, painted studies, the cast of a statue, portraits which suggested to me the name of Frans Hals, scenes made from life in the open streets; notably one large sketch of a landscapethe October mist on the shore, the trees half stripped, big yellow leaves strewing the ground.

Recent investigations make it probable that certain pictures which have for generations been attributed to Frans Hals were the work of Judith Leyster.

In 1893 a most interesting lawsuit, which occurred in London and was reported in the Times, concerned a picture known as "The Fiddlers," which had been sold as a work of Frans Hals for £4,500.

The monogram on the picture was called that of Frans Hals, but as reproduced and explained by C. Hofstede de Groot in the "Jahrbuch für Königlich-preussischen Kunst-Sammlungen" for 1893, it seems evident that the signature is J. L. and not F. H. Similar initials are on the "Flute Player," in the gallery at Stockholm; the "Seamstress," in The Hague Gallery, and on a picture in the Six collection at Amsterdam.

It is undeniable that these pictures all show the influence of Hals, whose pupil Judith Leyster may have been, and whose manner she caught as Mlle.

HALS, FRANS, an eminent Dutch portrait-painter, born at Antwerp; is considered to be the founder of the Dutch school of genre-painting; his portraits are full of life and vigour; Vandyck alone among his contemporaries was considered his superior (1581-1666).

In this field stand pre-eminent Van der Helst, Hals, Govaert, Flink, and Bol.

A man may visit Madrid without imitating Velasquez; he may live in Harlem without consciously yielding to Franz Hals; he may spend days with Monet without surrendering his independence; but these strong contacts will work their subtle effects upon all impressionable natures; the effects, however, may be wrought unconsciously and frequently against the sturdy opposition of an original nature.