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is not treated at Varallo. Here at Saas there 

 are only six doctors now ; whether or no there 

 were originally more cannot be determined. 



6. The Agony in the Garden. Tabachetti 

 had no chapel with this subject at Varallo, 

 and there is no resemblance between the Saas 

 chapel and that by D'Enrico. The figures 

 are no doubt approximately in their original 

 positions, but I have no confidence that I 

 have rearranged them correctly. They were 

 in such confusion when I first saw them that 

 the Rev. = E. J. Selwyn and myself determined 

 to rearrange them. They have doubtless 

 been shifted more than once since Tabachetti 

 left them. The sleeping figures are all good. 

 St. James is perhaps a little prosaic. One 

 Roman soldier who is coming into the garden 

 with a lantern, and motioning silence with his 

 hand, does duty for the others that are to 

 follow him. I should think more than one of 

 these figures is actually carved in wood by 

 Tabachetti, allowance being made for the fact 

 that he was working in a material with which 

 he was not familiar, and which no sculptor of 

 the highest rank has ever found congenial. 



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