House and Garden 
“And it came to pass, as they were much 
perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood 
by them in shining garments: 
“And as they were afraid, and bowed down 
their faces to the earth, they said unto them, 
Why seek ye the living among the dead? 
“ He is not here, but is risen : remember 
how he spake unto you when he was yet in 
Galilee.” 
The two women, Mary Magdalene, and 
Mary, the mother of James, stand, rapt and 
motionless, at the gate of the garden of 
Joseph of Arimathea, while Joanna, on her 
knees, peers into the sepulchre hewn in the 
solid rock. Before them appears the angel 
Gabriel, bearing a branch of lilies on his left 
arm. With uplifted hand, he says to the 
woman, “ He is not here,” the second angel 
seeming to continue the message—“but is 
risen.” From behind the hills the dawning 
day tinges the clouds with taint golden light, 
while in the recesses ot the hills linger the 
amethystine shadows of the Oriental atmos¬ 
phere. Against the bare brown rock, to the 
right, an almond tree raises its load of deli¬ 
cate pink blossoms, and about its base are 
great masses of white lilies and purple irises. 
As the angels by their words and attitudes 
announce the resurrection of Christ, so is 
the breaking dawn symbolical of the rebirth 
of the day, and the vernal flowers of the re¬ 
birth of the year. The dark red and blue 
and purple tones of the dresses of the women 
setoff' the more luminous hues of the angels’ 
raiment. The angel in the middle panel is 
clad in a long robe of figured green, the 
undergown being of white which shows 
purplish and golden shadows. The robe of 
the second angel is brilliant wine-red, and 
covers an undergown of white with pale fig¬ 
ures in green and gold. Mr. Holzer spent 
some time in Palestine studying the land¬ 
scape and atmosphere effects and made there 
the cartoon for the window. Even in the 
least detail of dress, in design and color, he 
has pursued the same painstaking methods. 
The window is especially interesting be¬ 
cause of experiments which the artist has 
tried in dispensing with leads so as to make 
the large expanse of sky without a single 
line. He has been eminently successful in 
this, and his work has gained remarkably in 
the sense of luminosity and unbroken rich¬ 
ness of color. Indeed, the window, which, 
with its three panels, is more than nineteen 
feet wide by about eighteen high, may be 
counted an important addition to American 
works in mosaic glass. L. R. E. P. 
THE NEW INN HOTEL AT GLOUCESTER 
NUMBER TWO OF OLD ENGLISH INNS, INTERESTING TO TRAVELERS IN 
SEARCH OF THE QUAINT AND PICTURESQUE 
I N certain documents you may induce the 
proprietor of the New Inn Hotel to bring 
forth from its archives you may learn that the 
hostelry demands respect to the tune of five 
hundred years. In 1327 the barbarous death 
of Edward II. in Berkeley Castle, distant some 
dozen miles from Gloucester, in the pictur¬ 
esque valley of the Severn, filled the minds 
of the English people with horror; and 
w hen in the following year Edward III. 
erected a splendid tomb over the body of 
his murdered father in the “fayre Chapelle” 
of the Benedictine Monastery in Gloucester 
(now the Cathedral), pilgrims flocked from 
all parts ot the kingdom to visit the martyr’s 
shrine. So great was the concourse that 
many were compelled to pass the night in 
sheds, hovels or even in the open fields. 
Moved by pity for these poor wayfarers, 
the pious monks built a spacious hostelry 
close to their gates, calling it the “ Newe 
Inne,” where weary travelers might find rest, 
food and shelter. 
According to Rudge in his “ History of 
Gloustershire,” the present New Inn must 
have been built on the site of the “old” one 
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