Art and Science 



puzzle us in the work both of our clerics and 

 our scientists. I, not being a man of science, 

 still continue to do what I said I did in 

 " Alps and Sanctuaries," and make it a rule 

 to earnestly and patiently and carefully swal- 

 low a few of the smallest gnats I can find 

 several times a day, as the best astringent for 

 the throat I know of. 



The thirteenth chapel is the Marriage Feast 

 at Cana of Galilee. This is the best chapel 

 as a work of art ; indeed, it is the only one 

 which can claim to be taken quite seriously. 

 Not that all the figures are very good ; those 

 to the left of the composition are common- 

 place enough ; nor are the Christ and the 

 giver of the feast at all remarkable ; but the 

 ten or dozen figures of guests and attendants 

 at the right-hand end of the work are as good 

 as anything of their kind can be, and remind 

 me so strongly of Tabachetti that I cannot 

 doubt they were done by some one who was 

 indirectly influenced by that great sculptor's 

 work. It is not likely that Tabachetti was alive 

 long after 1640, by which time he would have 

 been; about eighty years old ; and the founda- 



