Art and Science 



published in my book " Ex Voto," an angry 

 pilgrim has smashed the nose of the dwarf in 

 Tabachetti's Journey to Calvary, for no other 

 reason than inability to restrain his indigna- 

 tion against one who was helping to inflict 

 pain on Christ. It is the real hair and the 

 painting up to nature that does this. Here at 

 Oropa I found a paper on the floor of the 

 Sposalizio Chapel, which ran as follows : 



" By the grace of God and the will of the 

 administrative chapter of this sanctuary, there 



have come here to work , mason, 



, carpenter, and , plumber, 



all of Chiavazza, on the twenty-first day of 

 January 1886, full of cold (pieni difreddo). 



" They write these two lines to record their 

 visit. They pray the Blessed Virgin that she 

 will maintain them safe and sound from 

 everything equivocal that may befall them 

 (sempre sani e salvi da ogni equivoco li possa 

 accadere). Oh, farewell ! We reverently salute 

 all the present statues, and especially the 

 Blessed Virgin, and the reader." 



Through the Universal Review, I suppose, all 



its readers are to consider themselves saluted ; 



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