. The century illustrated monthly magazine . re the church-door hequietly descended beneath the canopy of blackvelvet that covered the entrance to San Fran-cisco. The group that was gathered in Madridthat day of the queens funeral was very variedand brilliant. Here were diplomatists who the bright feature of any gathering where bothsexes are assembled. But in Spain it is quitedifferent; and on this day especially the wivesand relatives of the Excellencies all appearedin black, while Spanish nobles and the specialenvoys showed uniforms covered with ordersmade of every blazing precious stone, an
. The century illustrated monthly magazine . re the church-door hequietly descended beneath the canopy of blackvelvet that covered the entrance to San Fran-cisco. The group that was gathered in Madridthat day of the queens funeral was very variedand brilliant. Here were diplomatists who the bright feature of any gathering where bothsexes are assembled. But in Spain it is quitedifferent; and on this day especially the wivesand relatives of the Excellencies all appearedin black, while Spanish nobles and the specialenvoys showed uniforms covered with ordersmade of every blazing precious stone, and theirred and blue coats were thick with gold orna-ments and gold lace. The chapeau under thearm of each one might almost have been madeof the precious metal, so covered was it withgold embroidery. As can be easily imagined, the effect of thecrowd was like that of a fine picture—its back-ground of the interior of the church hungin black velvet, and with a thousand blazingcandles- and this background threw into a 4Q STREET LITE IN vague and curious light the gathered crowdwithin the church. Near at hand daylightmixed with the artificial glare of the candles,and the strong lights and shadows from thesunlight and the black canopy above the crowdin the vestibule of the church and around itsentrance formed a picture which Rembrandt orRubens, and even more especially Titian or Tin-toretto, might have loved to paint. Either ofthese artists would have found in the contrastsof the candles and the velvet, the helmetedsoldiery with their horses, and the peasantsfit accessories for the dark Spanish women intheir black lace mantillas, the burly blondenorthern ambassadors, and the slender Spanish noblemen covered with color, gold, and pre-cious stones. It is generally supposed that the special feat-ures of a face give it its beauty or ugliness ; butartists are aware that charm lies in the generalbuild and make-up of the countenance ratherthan in pretty eyes, nose, or mouth; to be
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