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her, would never have been known to posterity. As a 

 fact, she was executed six or seven years before Guido 

 arrived in Rome. Neither is the picture a Guido at all, 

 but a study by some inferior painter of an unknown 

 model. At least, this, I believe, is the last word on the 

 subject. The favourite portrait of Raphael by himself 

 in the Louvre, leaning on his hand, is not a portrait of 

 him, nor is the picture painted by him. The great Hol- 

 bein at Dresden is said now not to be the original, which 

 is at Darmstadt; and so on. In this Frankfort gallery 

 there is an extraordinarily fine and interesting female 

 portrait, hitherto attributed to Sebastiano del Piombo, 

 but now supposed to be by Sodoma. It is one of the 

 gems of the collection. 



Before leaving England last year (1897), I had been 

 immensely interested at hearing of the open-air treat- 

 ment for phthisis as practised in Germany, the parent 

 establishment of which is at Falkenstein, in the Taunus 

 Mountains, close to Cronberg, where I was staying. I 

 wished very much to visit this sanatorium myself, but 

 circumstances rendered it impossible. 



A good account of it was published just after I came 

 home, in the ' Practitioner ' for November, by Dr. Karl 

 Hess, senior physician to the establishment. 



It cannot fail to strike us as we walk or drive past 

 the Brompton hospital, with its airless situation and its 

 closed windows, how hopelessly different its conditions 

 and treatment must be from those recommended — and 

 apparently so successfully carried out — at Falkenstein. 

 In Germany twenty sister establishments have been 

 started, and the medical management is supposed to 

 be now so complete against infection that German 

 parents have no fear of sending delicate children to 

 these cures, at the age of sixteen or seventeen, to be 

 benefited by the outdoor treatment as a strengthener 



