Stories of persons and places in Europe . , and its effect upon him. Mary Magdalene appears lesseager than Saint John ; she hears without listening. She feels its soothingeffect, and is satisfied. She is at peace with herself and the world. But with Saint Cecilia the effect is different from all these. She listens,thrilled and motionless, but she also,sees as she lifts her eyes the sourceof the heavenly music. She feels the harmony and sees from whence itcomes. Such are the fine distinctions and the beautiful ideas that those old painters sought to express in their pictures. They are called th
Stories of persons and places in Europe . , and its effect upon him. Mary Magdalene appears lesseager than Saint John ; she hears without listening. She feels its soothingeffect, and is satisfied. She is at peace with herself and the world. But with Saint Cecilia the effect is different from all these. She listens,thrilled and motionless, but she also,sees as she lifts her eyes the sourceof the heavenly music. She feels the harmony and sees from whence itcomes. Such are the fine distinctions and the beautiful ideas that those old painters sought to express in their pictures. They are called the idealists, Italy. 381 in distinction from the realists; such as Rembrant and tilings just as they appeared, no matter how ugly. Hie Dutchpainters tried simply to represent nature; the old Italians elevated thoughts The Mont Cenis Tunnel.—One of the greatest, if not the greatestwork ever accomplished by engineers, is the Mont Cenis tunnel throughthe Alps, between France and Italy. This was planned and executed solely. MOUNT CENIS TUNNEL. by the Italians. The St. Gothard, completed eleven years later, is some-what longer, but the Mont Cenis one was the pioneer. When it was first proposed to tunnel the Alps, everybody, ol course,laughed at the idea. They said it would be utterly impossible, that therewere beds of rock in the Alps so hard that no instrument could penetratethem; that great caverns would be run into, leading down nobody knewwhere; that the bottom might be knocked out of some underground lake, 382 Persons and Places in Europe. and not only the mine but the whole country be flooded. But none ofthese imaginary difficulties troubled the engineers; they were studyingthe real ones. The great difficulty was that the work could not be carried on in theordinary manner, by sinking shafts every little way from which to work,for the distance from the top of the mountain down to the proposed routewas nearly as great as the whole length of the tunnel. They mu
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