. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . - whether or not his words are in accordancewith academic rules. I regret to see photographybeing introduced for votive purposes, and also todetect in some places a disposition on the part of theauthorities to be a little ashamed of these picturesand to place them rather out of sight. Sometimes in a little country village, as at Doeranear Mesocco, there is a modern fresco on a chapelin which the old spirit appears, with its absoluteindifference as to whether itwas ridiculous or no, but suchexamples are rare. Sometimes, again,
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . - whether or not his words are in accordancewith academic rules. I regret to see photographybeing introduced for votive purposes, and also todetect in some places a disposition on the part of theauthorities to be a little ashamed of these picturesand to place them rather out of sight. Sometimes in a little country village, as at Doeranear Mesocco, there is a modern fresco on a chapelin which the old spirit appears, with its absoluteindifference as to whether itwas ridiculous or no, but suchexamples are rare. Sometimes, again, I haveeven thought I have detecteda ray of sunset upon a milk-mans window-blind in London,and once upon an undertakers,but it was too faint a ray toread by. The best thing ofthe kind that I have seen in London is the pictureof the lady who is cleaning knives with Mr. Spongspatent knife-cleaner, in his shop window nearly op-posite Day & Martins in Holborn. It falls a lono-way short, however, of a good Italian votive picture ;but it has the advantage of PARADISO ! PARADISO ! 188 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. I knew of a little girl once, rather less than fouryears old, whose uncle had promised to take her for adrive in a carriage with him, and had failed to do child was found soon afterwards on the stairsweeping, and being asked what was the matter, replied, Mans is all alike. This is Giottesque. I oftenthink of it as I look upon Italian votive pictures. Themeaning is so sound in spite of the expression beingso defective—if, indeed, expression can be defectivewhen it has so well conveyed the meaning. I knew, again, an old lady whose education hadbeen neglected in her youth. She came into a largefortune, and at some forty years of age put herselfunder the best masters. She once said to me asfollows, speaking very slowly and allowing a longtime between each part of the sentence ;— Yousee, she said, the world, and all that it contains,is wrapped up in such curious forms,
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