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It is the first in order of a great series, including the Ariosto of Cobham, the Jeune Homme au Gant, the Portrait of a Man in the Alte Pinakothek of Munich, and perhaps the famous Concert of the Pitti, ascribed to Giorgione.
And so we may be deeply grateful to Herr Wickhoff for his new interpretations, not less sound and thoroughly worked out than they are on a first acquaintance startling. And yet we need not for all that shatter our old ideals, or force ourselves too persistently to look at Venetian art from another and a more prosaic, because a more precise and literal, standpoint. Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
Munro's regiment, as it was still called for he was now its full colonel, although Lieutenant Colonel Sinclair commanded it in the field had suffered terribly, but less, perhaps, than some of those who had in vain attempted to force their way up the slopes of the Alte Veste; and many an eye grew moist as at daybreak the regiment marched into its place in the ranks of the brigade and saw how terrible had been the slaughter among them.
By nine o'clock everything is hushed; not a wheel is heard at that dead hour; the few feet shuffling stealthily through the Alte Wiese whisper a caution of silence to those issuing with a less guarded tread from the opera; the little bowers that overhang the stream are as dark and mute as the restaurants across the way which serve meals in them by day; the whole place is as forsaken as other cities at midnight.
We come to earth and every-day weariness again with the full-length of Charles V., which is now in the Alte Pinakothek of Munich. Here the monarch, dressed in black and seated in a well-worn crimson velvet chair, shows without disguise how profoundly he is ravaged by ill-health and ennui.
'Na! gut, gut... geh, alte! Mr. Ratsch cut her short. 'Geh' schon, geh' schon, muttered Eleonora Karpovna, and she went away, still holding the kerchief with her fingers, and shedding tears. And I followed her. In the passage stood Viktor in a student's coat with a beaver collar and a cap stuck jauntily on one side.
There is one thing particularly worth mentioning about Munich, and that is that also in Alte Residenz, in the Festsaalbau, which faces on the Hofgarten, and is 256 yards, not feet, long, are two small card rooms, with what they call a "gallery of beauties." Now everybody knows how disappointing professional beauties are.
In such wise, Heaven would not be incessantly reminded of the existence of their dear one, and would not go out of its way to castigate them. The ruse succeeded, and Alte was anxiously waiting to change both her names under the Chuppah, and to gratify her life-long curiosity on the subject.
He ought to have been here before our two young people; and for some time past " Laure, who was afraid of being sent alone to the Place St. Eustache, answered that she was quite sure he had gone in, and continued: "Ombrose selve, ove'percote il sole Che vi fa co'suoi raggi alte a superbe." "Hum!" said the worthy old soldier, grumbling.
As the last little girl, though patently awe-struck, had come off with flying colors, merely by whimpering "Fanny Belcovitch," Alte imitated these sounds as well as she was able. "Fanny Belcovitch, did you say?" said the Head Mistress, pausing with arrested pen. Alte nodded her flaxen poll vigorously. "Fanny Belcovitch," she repeated, getting the syllables better on a second hearing.
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