They also knew that he had painted the only authentic portrait of their national bard.

Paragraphs in the papers mentioned large sums as the cost of mounting the historical masterpiece of the national bard.

Call out the national bard!

But there is a wider and more important light in which to regard the influence of our great national Bard.

"No; my reverence for our national bard is based on reason," rejoined Esther seriously.