Abbey's Holy Grail frescoes in the Boston Public Library.

But he had determined to write his own text: and the prospective labour of this, made more formidable by his restricted leisure, finally discouraged him, and he abandoned the project.

Five years before his death he destroyed the sketches that he had made; only a few fragments remain.
A rare and admirable man!--a man who would have been a remarkable personality if he had not written a note of music.

His faults--and he was far from being a paragon--were never petty or contemptible: they were truly the defects of his qualities--of his honesty, his courage, his passionate and often reckless zeal in the promotion of what he believed to be sound and fine in art and in life.

Mr.Philip Hale, whose long friendship with MacDowell gives him the right to speak with peculiar authority, and whose habit is that of sobriety in speech, has written of him in words whose justice and felicity cannot be bettered: "A man of blameless life, he was never pharasaical; he was compassionate toward the slips and failings of poor humanity.