[5] Joshua vii.
[6] Ezek. xxvii. 23.
[7] The wall of China, which, both figuratively and literally, enclosed its civilization, and fenced off that of the outer world, for thousands of years.
[8] When the tomb of King John was opened, the body was found wrapped in the same dress as that sculptured on his effigy. The surcoat of the Black Prince, of embroidered velvet, still hangs above his monument, on which it is exactly reproduced.
[9] Yet men, too, have wielded the embroidering needle.
[10] These remnants are not, like the straws in amber, only precious because they are curious; they are most suggestive as works of art.
[11] Pope’s Homer, Iliad, book iii.
[12] Ibid. book vi.
[13] Shakespeare, “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” act iv. 20; v. 5.
[14] Surely it is a humanizing and Christian principle which in Italy permits artistic work to be done in the prisons where criminals are confined for life. Sisters of Mercy teach lace-making to the wretched women who, having committed great crimes, may never be seen again. The produce of the work helps to pay the expense of the prison, and at the same time a very small percentage is given to the prisoners to send to their friends, or to spend on little comforts, thus encouraging the poor human creatures to exercise their best powers. We believe this is sometimes allowed also in England and France.