*Printed in black on front: "Triple Triumphs / Photogravurs From the Original Paintings / The First Spoken Words Of Love (Large picture opposite-missing). This mission of mankind and womankind on earth, above all other missions, is to love one another. Sweet is the hum of bees, the song of birds, The lisp of children and their earliest words, But sweeter far is first and passionate love ! It stands alone like Adam's recollection of his fall. It matters not whether their lot in life be that of high-born aristocrats, illustrated in the large picture, or the village blacksmith and the laundry maid, of No. II, or the tapster and the maid of all work, of No. III, love levels all distinctions, and it is a happy dispensation of providence that the peasant with his lass enjoys as much the dream of exquisite bliss, when he truly falls in love, as an emperor does when he woos the daughter of a king. C. E. Perugini, a native of Italy, but long a resident of England, was born 1840. He paints genre pictures, refined in sentiment and graceful and pleasing in composition, design and technic.
II. - The First Spoken Words of Love (see description above). Joseph Scheurenberg wasborn at Dusseldorf, 1846, studied are in the Academy of his native city, under Karl Sohn and W. Sohn.
III. - The First Spoken Words of Love (see description above). L. Jimenez was born at Seville (Spain); studied in the Academy of Seville, and then spent ten years in Italy, after which (in 1875) he made Paris his home.