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Sicily, Greece, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and the almost 

 forgotten islands of the ^Egean Seas. 



While this energetic sister of the great Napoleon was 

 occupied in bringing to light those priceless treasures of 

 art which had for seventeen centuries lain beneath the 

 ashes of Vesuvius, a bright, refined, spirituelle young girl, 

 born in Dublin and bred in England, was unconsciously 

 preparing herself for a brilliant career in the branch of 

 archaeology known as Christian iconography. Her name 

 was Anna Murphy, better known to the world as Mrs. 

 Jameson. At an early age she gave evidence of unusual 

 intelligence, and she had hardly attained to womanhood 

 when she was noted for her knowledge of languages and 

 for her remarkable attainments in art and literature. Nu- 

 merous journeys to France, Italy and Germany and a sys- 

 tematic study in the great museums and art galleries of 

 these countries, but, above all, her association with the 

 most distinguished scholars of Europe, completed her edu- 

 cation and prepared her for those splendid works on Chris- 

 tian art which have made her name a household word 

 throughout the world. 



Mrs. Jameson was a prolific writer, but those of her 

 works on which her fame chiefly rests are the ones which 

 are classed under the general title, Sacred and Legendary 

 Art. They treat of God the Father and Son, of the Ma- 

 donna and the Saints, as illustrated in art from the earliest 

 ages to modern times. So masterly and exhaustive was 

 her treatment of the difficult subjects discussed in this 

 chef d'&uvre of hers that no less an authority than the 

 eminent German archaeologist, F. X. Kraus, writes of this 

 elaborate production as follows: 



" Neither before nor since has the subject matter of this 

 work been handled with such skill and thoroughness. The 

 older iconographic works were mere dilettanteism. For the 

 first time since classical archaeology had applied the prin- 



