Italian hours . s. The old white marble ofthe sculptured portions is as softly yellow as ancient ivory; thelarge exceedingly bright pictures above them flashed and twinkledin the glorious weather. Very striking and interesting the theo-logical frescoes of Luca Signorelli, though I have seen composi-tions of this general order that appealed to me more. Charac-teristically fresh, finally, the clear-faced saints and seraphs, inrobes of pink and azure, whom Fra Angelico has painted uponthe ceiling of the great chapel, along with a noble sitting fig-ure — more expressive of movement than most of th
Italian hours . s. The old white marble ofthe sculptured portions is as softly yellow as ancient ivory; thelarge exceedingly bright pictures above them flashed and twinkledin the glorious weather. Very striking and interesting the theo-logical frescoes of Luca Signorelli, though I have seen composi-tions of this general order that appealed to me more. Charac-teristically fresh, finally, the clear-faced saints and seraphs, inrobes of pink and azure, whom Fra Angelico has painted uponthe ceiling of the great chapel, along with a noble sitting fig-ure — more expressive of movement than most of the creationsof this pictorial peace-maker — of Christ in judgment. Yet theinteirest of the cathedral of Orvieto is mainly not the visible re-sult, but the historical process that lies behind it; those threehundred years of the applied devotion of a people of which anAmerican scholar has written an admirable Charles Eliot Norton, Notes of Travel and Study in Italy. A ROMAN HOLIDAY A ROMAN HOLIDAY. T is certainly sweet to be merry at theright moment; but the right momenthardly seems to me the ten days of theRoman Carnival. It was my rather cyni-cal suspicion perhaps that they would ntkeep to my imagination the brilliant pro-mise of legend; but I have been justifiedby the event and have been decidedlyless conscious of the festal influences of the season than of theinalien,able gravity of the place. There was a time when the Car-nival was a serious matter — that is a heartily joyous one; but,thanks to the seven-league boots the kingdom of Italy has latelydonned for the march of progress in quite other directions, thefashion of public revelry has fallen woefully out of step. Thestate of mind and manners under which the Carnival was keptin generous good faith I doubt if an American can exactly con-ceive : he can only say to himself that for a month in the yearthere must have been things — things considerably of humilia-tion—it was comfortable to forget. But now
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