He was a very clever and singularly brilliant man, whose name, I think, became known to the English public in connection with the discovery of the celebrated portrait of Dante on a long whitewashed wall of the Bargello, in Florence.

There was some little jealousy about the discovery between him and Kirkup.

The truth was that Kirkup's large and curious antiquarian knowledge led him to feel sure that the picture must be there, under the whitewash; while Bezzi's influence with the authorities succeeded in getting the wall cleared of its covering.] "I am anxious to hear how he endures his absence from Torquay, and I will write to him the moment I hear of him.

Tell Miss Garrow that the muses like the rustle of dry leaves almost as well as the whispers of green ones.

If she doubts it, entreat her on my part to ask the question of them.