BY ISABELLA HOWE FISKE.
All seems a dream of art—upon the arch
Of the grey bridge, the dim canal that spans,
A child steps, hand-raised, and my eye that scans,
Can scarce believe that here too, centuries march,
For Titian might have painted her just so,
Slow-foot Venetian centuries ago.
JOSEPH A. ALTSHELER.
Joseph A. Altsheler, whose story, “The Lost Herd,” follows, is a representative type of the new generation of Southerners in contemporary literature.