other pictures he produced, the most famous. are "La Rixe" (which Napoleon III. gave to Prince Albert in 1855, and which now belongs to Queen Victoria), "The Portrait of the Sergeant," "The Sign Painter," and "Solferino," the latter being in the Luxembourg. SCHILLER. SCHILLER is reading his tragedy of "Don Carlos" to the little court of Weimar, of which the central figure is Duke Karl August, a liberal patron of literature. Around the duke are grouped his family, and behind him stand Goethe and Wieland. The former lived at Weimar for over fifty years, until his death in 1832, and was buried there, beside Schiller, in the vault of the Grand Dukes of Saxe-Weimar. Together in life and death, the illustrious pair are again united in a wellconceived bronze group by Rietschel, which was erected, in 1857, in front of the theatre |