ns in Perugia, on which he has been, and will for the next two
years be engaged, for the municipality of the city. The window is, as
regards dimensions, the finest in all Italy--a noble work of the later
but still brilliant period of the art. The state of dilapidation into
which it had been allowed to fall was such that, coming restored as it
will from Signor Moretti's workshop, it will in many parts be almost
equivalent to a new work. The five or six full-sized figures which we
saw restored are very grand. I do not know who the original artist may
have been--I think that it is not known--but, whoever he was, the design
of the figures is as simply grand and as free from affectation as could
be wished. And whether the restorer found the remains of the almost
destroyed work sufficient to guide him satisfactorily in this respect,
or whether their excellence as now seen be due to his own conception, it
is clear that the principles of taste on which he has formed his style
are free from faults which might have resulted from a servile following
of the manner of his great townsman.

One other reason besides the object of directing the attention of the
lovers of art to the works of a real and genuine artist has led me to
think it desirable to make Signor Moretti and his workshop known to
American and English readers. The custom, an excellent one, of putting
up in churches or other public buildings painted windows as memorials of
those lost to their country or to those dear to them has become common
on both sides of the Atlantic; and I am sure that I am giving good
counsel to any persons contemplating such an undertaking in recommending
them to pay a visit to Signor Moretti's studio at Perugia before finally
deciding on giving their commissions.

T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE.

A STORY OF AMERICAN CHIVALRY.

"America is the paradise of women," is a foreign proverb that must
frequently recur to every American woman who travels or resides in the
Old World. Whenever in my Transatlantic journeyings I witness, or hear
of, or experience any flagrant act of discourtesy, or injustice arising
from contempt of the weaker sex, I am reminded by contrast of an
incident which occurred to me in early youth, and which I have often
related to astonished, almost incredulous, hearers in Europe, as a
specimen of the truly chivalrous sentiments and behavior commonly
exhibited by men toward women in every part of our great republic.

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