The fields of France / with twenty illustrations in color . THE ALISCAMPS AT ARLES THE F( full of g( ?( ali periods, and armour, o th: ^ - Jciiinot do Among our ytt exquisite sense 83JflA TA gqMAoaiJA 3HT in its seemly litthe bmunion des ^ - mntry. A LITTLE TOUR IN PROVENCE girl who, arriving too late at Aries to hear the mass at , cried herself to sleep in the porch. When sheawoke it was moonlight, and lo ! in order to console her, thecarved saints came down out of the portal and said the massfor her. They are so living, those saints, that the fable seemsthe most natural thing in t
The fields of France / with twenty illustrations in color . THE ALISCAMPS AT ARLES THE F( full of g( ?( ali periods, and armour, o th: ^ - Jciiinot do Among our ytt exquisite sense 83JflA TA gqMAoaiJA 3HT in its seemly litthe bmunion des ^ - mntry. A LITTLE TOUR IN PROVENCE girl who, arriving too late at Aries to hear the mass at , cried herself to sleep in the porch. When sheawoke it was moonlight, and lo ! in order to console her, thecarved saints came down out of the portal and said the massfor her. They are so living, those saints, that the fable seemsthe most natural thing in the world. And the cloisters within, how melancholy in their peace !And then, across the way, the Museum, with its unparalleledsarcophagi. The finest was discovered—I think in 1890—in digging the new railway across the Camargue. Neverhave I felt so strongly as in this Museum, as rich in EarlyChristian as in Classic monuments, the difference betweenthe Pagan and the Christian conception of death. TheRoman tombs are carved all over with beautiful and cheerfulimages, some scene of daily life, some vine-gathering or olive-harvest, perfectly human and natural, as though they wouldhave placed between the sealed eyes of the dead an abidingmemor
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