The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-31

inc patlletically. He finally took a long
handled dipper and literally poured
water for q few seconds all over the
child's head.
The Campo Santo near by is a charac-
teristic cemetery and one of the finest in
Italy. After the loss of the Holy Land
ffty-three ship loads of earth were
brought thither from Mt. Calvary in or
der that the dead might repose in holy
ground There are many fine paintings
and pieces of sculpture in the chapel
near the burying ground. Since 1T is for,
hidden for one person alone to ascend
the tower and no one at that moment
wished to go up, was obliged to forego
the pleasure and SO having exhausted the
capacities of the place, was not sorry
when the train for Florence came into
the station and took me on my way.
Florence.
AS soon as the galleries were open the
next morning | repaired to the Uffizl,
having spent the earlier hours in getting
used to the city, meeting meanwhile, as
is always happening fellow sight seers
whom had seen previously in Rome
and Naples.
had been working my way along ex-
aiming the busts of celebrated Roman
men and women and was about to enter
the Tribuila. tie gem of the collection,
with my expectations up to the point of
the highest enthusiasm when l espied-
and no installing 1.-THE German people
l had parted from two days before in
Rome. They were looking vacantly at
the Madonnas (of which there are one OF
two scores in these galleries) not even
noticing the central and greatest attrac-
l E IL H. -.
They saw me soon enough, and came
straight for me. but they were COM
pletelv dazed with SO much artistic
beauty, seemingly hardly to know
whether they were in Rome or Florence
or Naples again. 1t had rained the pre-
vious day and SO they had visited none of
the 1--WE hills overlooking the city nor
places of interest outside and they had
not before entered these galleries. They
wanted to know about the pictures
around them, the names of so many,
which they complained of as being alike,
and they asked who had painted them
all.
injured if they had vet been through
the long passage leading to the Pitt
Palace. They said they were going to
do it all that morning, as why should
they take the trouble of looking up all
the numbers. the pictures corresponding
to which were never in any kind of order
so that people have to spend most of
their time in locating them and if they
should find them at last, what would be
the use of trying to look at SO many
pictures of the same woman, it would
take too many days and SO they were just
going to walk through it all. They were
Charmed with the old Sonte Vecchio, it
being SO handy to buy things on the way
in these hereditary shops of the gold
smiths. on either side, and the con-
venient passage from the Uffizi running
along above and over the tops of the adj
iacent houses on each side Of the bridge
was altogether UNIQUE. If they had time
they said, they would like to go with me
to the Medici chapel or new Sacrisby as
it is called, as new as Michael Angelo
could Law out and paint it, with sculp-
lures by him not completed, and as elab-
crate throughout as the money of the
Medici family could adorn, with costly
Mosaics and inlaid marble, this family
having spent TWENTY-FIVE million francs
upon its construction and decorations.
They thought they could quite as well
see the Boboli Gardens out of the win
dows in the part of the passage which
overlooks them and as to the Palazza
Vecchia and the Loggia of LAME they
had looked at both in passing by. What
did they care for San Marco and San
s;as+;oo1 od;foos With old Savoranola
cloisters, were they not already stepped
in "reminiscences of mouldy churches
and defunct nunneries they felt that they
must leave en- route for Vienna the fol-
lowing day, since they had already, in
these few weeks gone through with three
or four thousand francs of their years
income. The beauties of Naples and the
magnifcence of Rome had failed to touch
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your eyes without their resting on a
marvel of some mans genius, could no
| more impress them. The refinement of
| Raphael's touch and the power of Michael
Angeles gigantic arm had no scent of
real art for them.
Instead of its being question how
| long by any possibility they could re-
| main, the thought uppermost with them
| was, how soon they could get away.
And when 1 last saw them they were GO
ing down among the popes and cardinals,
the Vandyke rufus and Medici beauties
with which the Pitt passage is on both
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