is perfect.

“The hands and feet of the figures—how many times

have I seen these hands and feet in Angelico's “Jesus,” [25]

or Botticelli's “Madonna”!

“It gave me such a thrill of joy as no words can ex-

press, to see produced to-day that art—the only true

art—that we have identified with the old masters, and

mourned as belonging to them exclusively,—a thing of [30]

the past, impossible of reproduction.

“All that I can say to you, as one who gives no mean