. The humour of Homer, and other essays. Edited by Streatfield with a biographical sketch of the author by Henry Festing Jones . a pleasant sense ofhaving made acquaintance wdth a new and, in manyrespects, interesting work, I could not get the sacristanand our difference of opinion out of my head. WTiat, Iasked myself, are the differences that unhappily divideChristendom, and what are those that divide Christen-dom from modern schools of thought, but a seeing ofJoachims as the Virgins grandmothers on a largerscale ? True, we cannot call figures Joachim when weknow perfectly well that they
. The humour of Homer, and other essays. Edited by Streatfield with a biographical sketch of the author by Henry Festing Jones . a pleasant sense ofhaving made acquaintance wdth a new and, in manyrespects, interesting work, I could not get the sacristanand our difference of opinion out of my head. WTiat, Iasked myself, are the differences that unhappily divideChristendom, and what are those that divide Christen-dom from modern schools of thought, but a seeing ofJoachims as the Virgins grandmothers on a largerscale ? True, we cannot call figures Joachim when weknow perfectly well that they are nothing of the kind ;but 1 registered a vow that henceforward when Icalled Joachims the Virgins grandmothers I wouldbear more in mind than I have perhaps always hithertodone, how hard it is for those who have been taughtto see them as Joachims to think of them as somethingdifferent. I trust that I have not been unfaithful tothis vow in the preceding article. If the reader differsfrom me, let me ask him to remember how hard it is forone who has got a figure well into his head as theVirgins grandmother to see it as A Medieval Girl Schoor THIS last summer I revisited Oropa, near Biella,to see what connection I could find between theOropa chapels and those at Varallo. I will take thisopportunity of describing the chapels at Oropa, andmore especially the remarkable fossil, or petrified girlschool, commonly known as the Dimora, or Sojourn ofthe Virgin Mary in the Temple. If I do not take these works so seriously as the readermay expect, let me beg him, before he blames me, to goto Oropa and see the originals for himself. Have thegood people of Oropa themselves taken them veryseriously ? Are we in an atmosphere where we need beat much pains to speak with bated breath ? We, as iswell known, love to take even our pleasures sadly ; theItalians take even their sadness allegramente, andcombine devotion with amusement in a manner that weshall do well to study if not imitate.
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