Art and Science 



Why, alas ! was not Mr. Edison alive when 

 this chapel was made ? We might then have 

 had a daily phonographic recital of the con- 

 versation, and an announcement might be put 

 outside the chapels, telling us at what hours 

 the figures would speak. 



On either of side the main room there are 

 two annexes opening out from it ; these are re- 

 served chiefly for the younger children, some 

 of whom, I think, are little boys. In the left- 

 hand annex, behind the ladies who are making 

 a mitre, there is a child who has got a cake, 

 and another has some fruit possibly given 

 them by the Virgin and a third child is 

 begging for some of it. The light failed so 

 completely here that I was not able to photo- 

 graph any of these figures. It was a dull Sep- 

 tember afternoon, and the clouds had settled 

 thick round the chapel, which is never very 

 light, and is nearly 4000 feet above the sea. I 

 waited till such twilight as made it hopeless that 

 more detail could be got and a queer ghostly 

 place enough it was to wait in but after 

 giving the plate an exposure of fifty minutes, 



I saw I could get no more, and desisted. 



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