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with the quattrocentists, and was spread 
by many helping spirits over Tuscany 
and the world. 
As for architecture, this movement 
began in Florence, and the return 
to detail, carefully studied upon the 
ancient Roman models, was abrupt 
and without transition. Brunelleschi 
was the guiding active mind, the Medici 
gave the opportunities, Donatello’s re¬ 
fined genius inspired the decoration. 
I he spirit of the Renaissance gradually 
became a patriotic fervor. Men thought 
they had reclaimed their inheritance 
from the Caesars, and wondered that 
they had ever fallen away from the 
wonderful models all around them.—- 
R. S. Peabody in Atlantic Monthly. 
GROWING NEW WOOD 
’ll/"HEN Longfellow was well along in 
* * years, his head as white as snow, 
an ardent admirer asked him one day 
how it was that he was able to keep 
so vigorous and write so beautifully. 
Pointing to a blossoming apple tree 
near by, the poet replied: 
“That apple tree is very old, but 
I never saw prettier blossoms upon 
it than those which it now bears. 
The tree grows a little new wood 
every year. Like the apple tree, I 
try to grow a little new wood every 
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year. 
And what Longfellow did we all 
ought to do. We cannot stop the flight 
of time; we cannot head off the one 
event that happeneth to all; but we 
can keep on “growing new wood,’’ 
and in that way keep on blossoming 
until the end .—Farm and Home. 
STILL PAINTING AT NINETY-SIX 
F OR many years the water-color 
paintings of William Callow, who 
has attained the ripe age of 96, have 
been a feature at an annual show of the 
“Old” Water-Colour Society in London, 
says the “Burlington Magazine.” In 
the face of body color and all the de¬ 
vices that the ingenuity of modern water- 
color artists have discovered, his modest 
wash drawings have more than held their 
own. 
Mr. Callow in an interesting interview 
answers leading questions with regard 
to the papers, paints and methods that 
he has successfully employed for seventy- 
five years. 
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