Venice

Transcriber’s Note
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By permission of the late Thomas Threlfall, Esq.
THE CAMPANILE.
VENICE
BY BERYL DE SÉLINCOURT AND MAY STURGE HENDERSON
ILLUSTRATED BY REGINALD BARRATT
OF THE ROYAL WATER-COLOR SOCIETY
NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1907
Copyright, 1907 , By Dodd, Mead and Company
Published, October, 1907
“Venice herself is poetry, and creates a poet out of the dullest clay.” It was a poet who spoke, and his clay was instinct with the breath of genius. But it is true that Venice lends wings to duller clay; it has been her fate to make poets of many who were not so before—a responsibility that entails loss on her as well as gain.