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We know not whether the result of her Italian studies, so far as it

could yet be seen, will be accepted as a good or desirable one Certain

it is, that since her arrival in the pictorial land, Hilda seen, which brought her

thither No doubt the girl's early drea forms and

hues of beauty into the visible world out of her own

scenes of poetry and history to live before h

conceptions and by methods individual to herself But more and more, as

she grew faalleries

in Roinal artist No,

wonder that this change should have befallen her She was endoith

a deep and sensitive faculty of appreciation; she had the gift of

discerning and worshipping excellence in a nized so adequately, and enjoyed with

such deep delight, the pictorial wonders that were here displayed She

saw no, not saw, but felt through and through a picture; she bestowed

upon it all the warmth and richness of a woman's syth of heart, and this guiding

light of syht to the central point, in which the

master had conceived his work Thus she viewed it, as it were, with his