Part 8 (1/2)

You will at first think her figure ungainly and stiff It is so, partly, the dress being more coarsely repainted than in any other of the series

But she isWhat she has to say is indeed to persuade you, if possible; but assuredly to overpower you And _she_ has not the Florentine girdle, for she does not want to irdle broad at the waist--of all the sciences, you would at first have thought, the one that most needed breath! No, says Siht with But to speak!--If you kno_, you can do your ith feords; very little of this pure Florentine air will be enough, if you shape it rightly

Note, also, that calainst her side You think Rhetoric should be glowing, fervid, is,--_cool_

And now let us read what is written on her scroll:--Mulceo, dum loquor, varios induta colores

Her chief function, to melt; make soft, thaw the hearts ofrest, with rainbow colours The chief mission of all words that they should be of comfort

You think the function of words is to excite? Why, a red rag will do that, or a blast through a brass pipe But to give calentle heat; to be as the south wind, and the iridescent rain, to all bitterness of frost; and bring at once strength, and healing This is the work of huht of God

One farther and final lesson is given in the medallion above Aristotle, and too ht there could be good speaking in a false cause But above Simon Memmi's Rhetoric is _Truth_, with her , alh they are bound to speak truth, in speaking to a single person, they may lie as much as they please, provided they lie to two orabout killing:one innocent man; but will fire a iure of the Science, to that of Cicero, beneath, you will at first think it entirely overthrows my conclusion that Rhetoric has no need of her hands For Cicero, it appears, has three instead of two

The upperenuine one That raised, with the finger up, is entirely false That on the book, is repainted so as to defy conjecture of its original action

But observe how the gesture of the true one confir what I have said above Cicero is not speaking at all, but profoundly thinking _before_ he speaks It is theall the philosophers; and very beautiful The whole is under Solomon, in the line of Prophets

_Technical Points_--These two figures have suffered froht hand of Rhetoric is still entirely genuine, and the left, except the ends of the fingers The ear, and hair just above it, are quite safe, the head well set on its original line, but the crown of leaves rudely retouched, and then faded All the lower part of the figure of Cicero has been not only repainted but changed; the face is genuine--I believe retouched, but so cautiously and skilfully, that it is probably now more beautiful than at first

III LOGIC The science of reasoning, or ence

Science to be gained after that of Expression, says Sih you ht how to speak, you ht how to think

For indeed, it is only by frank speaking that you _can_ learn how to think And it is no hts you haveto have theht

Fortunately, nearly all of this beautiful figure is practically safe, the outlines pure everywhere, and the face perfect: the _prettiest_, as far as I knohich exists in Italian art of this early date It is subtle to the extreradations of colour: the eyebrows drawn, not with a sweep of the brush, but with separate cross touches in the line of their growth--exquisitely pure in arch; the nose straight and fine; the lips--playful slightly, proud, unerringly cut; the hair flowing in sequent waves, ordered as if in ht on the shoulders; the height of the brow completed by a crimson frontlet set with pearls, surmounted by a _fleur-de-lys_

Her shoulders were exquisitely drawn, her white jacket fitting close to soft, yet scarcely rising breasts; her ar, at perfect rest; her hands, exquisitely delicate In her right, she holds a branching and leaf-bearing rod, (the syllogis, (the dileenerally, the powers of rational construction and dissolution

Beneath her, Aristotle,--intense keenness of search in his half-closed eyes

Medallion above, (less expressive than usual) a , with his head stooped

The whole under Isaiah, in the line of Prophets

_Technical Points_--The only parts of this figure which have suffered seriously in repainting are the leaves of the rod, and the scorpion I have no idea, as I said above, what the background once was; it is now a es, still with care much redeemable, of the richly ornareen leaves on a black ground But the scorpion is indecipherably injured, ,eh still, but not on the first lines

The Aristotle is very genuine throughout, except his hat, and I think that h I cannot trace theood lines, new or old

IV MUSIC After you have learned to reason, young people, of course you will be very grave, if not dull, you think No, says Si to reason, you will learn to sing; for you ant to There is soin the sorld, when one thinks rightly of it None for gruate You will sing all along the road then, in a little while, in a ure has been one of the loveliest in the series, an extrehout She is crowned, not with laurel, but with s too much injured: the face thin, abstracted, wistful; the lips not far open in their low singing; the hair rippling softly on the shoulders She plays on a san, richly ornamented with Gothic tracery, the down slope of it set with crockets like those of Santa Maria del Fiore Simon Memmi means that _all_anything but hyhtly called

The actions of both hands are singularly sweet The right is one of the loveliest things I ever saw done in painting She is keeping down one note only, with her third finger, seen under the raised fourth: the thuers exquisite, and the pale light and shade of the rosy flesh relieved against the ivory white and brown of the notes Only the thuer are seen of the left hand, but they indicate enough its light pressure on the bellows Fortunately, all these portions of the fresco are absolutely intact

Underneath, Tubal-Cain Not Jubal, as you would expect Jubal is the inventor of ht the old Florentines, invented harmony They, the best smiths in the world, knew the differences in tones of hah, the only piece of true part-singing, done beautifully and joyfully, which I have heard this year in Italy, (being south of Alps exactly sixfroia Of bestial howling, and entirely frantic voh their still carnal throats, I have heard ain in one of His suly? Yes Much like a shaggy baboon: not accidentally, but withof baboon character Men must have looked like that, before they had invented harmony, or felt that one note differed from another, says, and knows Simon Memmi Darwinism, like all widely popular and widely rain of truth in its tissue