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master of ceremonies, is another to match him. A modern fop with banged hair is stepping from the boat to the shore of hell.
This is said to be the best painted portion of the picture,most life-like and free from mannerism.
It is a mighty work, and too little appreciated, like many other works of art, chiefly owing to the critics, who do not understand it, and write a lingo of their own which is not easy to make out and does not come to much after all.1
After the service we went into St. Peter's with the ladies, and walked the whole circuit of the church.
Our ladies talked meanwhile exactly as they might at an American wateringplace, without apparently observing anything about them.
When we came to the statue of St. Peter, P — said, pointing to the big toe: “You see there the mischief that can be done by too much kissing.”
Nearly a third of the toe has been worn away by the oscular applications of the faithful.
1 All this shows what a heart there was in Michael Angelo, and dissipates the assertion of a recent English biographer that Michael Angelo painted masks instead of faces, with little or no expression.
1905. E. P. DUtton and Co. Boston,.
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