American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . The Dearest of the Dear. Drawn by Harper. whose diction is as clear and pureas the water it sings, — Who dare sport with the sin-defiled ?Shrink from me, turn from me, mother andchild, — the artist has also of his happiest illustrationswere made for George Eliots Romola, one showing the visi-ble Madonna dispensing charityto the little children in the hos-pital, whither she had gone withthe good news that Florence,sorely beset by war, famine, andpestilence, was relieved. It wasa time to rejoice, since help
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . The Dearest of the Dear. Drawn by Harper. whose diction is as clear and pureas the water it sings, — Who dare sport with the sin-defiled ?Shrink from me, turn from me, mother andchild, — the artist has also of his happiest illustrationswere made for George Eliots Romola, one showing the visi-ble Madonna dispensing charityto the little children in the hos-pital, whither she had gone withthe good news that Florence,sorely beset by war, famine, andpestilence, was relieved. It wasa time to rejoice, since help had 44 AMERICAN ART. The River. Drawn by Harper. come to Florence; and she turned into the court to tell the good news to her patients on theirstraw beds. She closed the door after her, lest the bells should drown her voice, and then, throwing the blackdrapery from her head that the women might see her better, she stood in the midst and told themthat corn was coming and that the bells were ringing for gladness at the news. They all sat up tolisten, while the children trotted or crawled toward her, and pulled her black skirts, as if they wereimpatient at being all that long way off her face. She yielded to them, weary as she was, and satdown on the straw, while the little pale things peeped into her basket and pulled her hair down, andthe feeble voices around her said, The Holy Virgin be praised ! It was the procession ! TheMother of God has had pity on us ! The other depicts Romola fetching water from the well for the sick in the little village to whichher boat had carried her, her gaze fixed intently on
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