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Maggiore, reading off the quaint emblems or expounding 

 the pious thoughts of more than a thousand years ago/' 1 



It is gratifying to know that Queen Victoria recognized 

 the surpassing merits of this noble woman by placing her 

 on the civil list, and that our own Longfellow was able 

 to say of her masterpiece, Sacred and Legendary Art, l 1 It 

 most amply supplies the cravings of the religious sentiment 

 of the spiritual nature within. ' ' 



A countrywoman of Mrs. Jameson and her contempo- 

 rary, who also deserves an honorable place in the literature 

 of archaeology, is Louise Twining. Although inferior in 

 intellectual attainments and literary activity to the accom- 

 plished author of Sacred and Legendary* Art, her two 

 works on Types and Figures of the Bible Illustrated ~by 

 Art and Symbols and Emblems of Early Mediaeval Chris- 

 tian Art have given her a well-deserved reputation on the 

 Continent as well as in the British Isles. The latter vol- 

 ume Mrs. Jameson herself declares in her Legends of the 

 Madonna to be " certainly the most complete and useful 

 book of the kind which I know of. ' ' 



A third woman who has won fame for her sex in the 

 island kingdom in the domain of archaeology is Miss Mar- 

 garet Stotes. Her activities, however, have been chiefly 

 confined to the antiquities of Ireland, on which she is a 

 recognized authority. 



The notable part she took in editing Lord Dunraven's 

 great work, Notes on Irish Architecture, established her 

 reputation on a firm basis. Among her other important 

 works are Early Christian Art in Ireland and Christian 

 Inscriptions in the Irish Language, chiefly collected and 

 drawn by George Petrie, one of the annual volumes of the 

 Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland. 

 This work has justly been described as an epoch-making 

 contribution to Christian epigraphy and to our rapidly 



i Memoirs of the Life of Anna Jameson, pp. 296-297, by her 

 niece, Geraldine Macpherson, London, 1878. 



