Art and Science 



spirited wooden figures, each about two feet 

 high, painted, gilt, and rendered as life-like in 

 all respects as circumstances would permit. 

 The figures have suffered a good deal from 

 neglect, and are still not a little misplaced. 

 With the assistance, however, of the Rev. 

 E. J. Selwyn, English Chaplain at Saas-im- 

 Grund, I have been able to replace many of 

 them in their original positions, as indicated 

 by the parts of the figures that are left rough- 

 hewn and unpainted. They vary a good deal 

 in interest, and can be easily sneered at by 

 those who make a trade of sneering. Those, 

 on the other hand, who remain unsophisticated 

 by overmuch art-culture will find them full of 

 character in spite of not a little rudeness of 

 execution, and will be surprised at coming 

 across such works in a place so remote from 

 any art-centre as Saas must have been at the 

 time these chapels were made. It will be my 

 business therefore to throw what light I can 

 upon the questions how they came to be 

 made at all, and who was the artist who 

 designed them. 



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