The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories
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COMMENDATIONS OF THE PORTRAIT
There is nothing like it in the Vatican. Pius IX.
It has none of that vagueness, that dreamy spirituality about it, whichmany of the first critics of Arkansas have objected to in the Murilloschool of Art. Ruskin.
The expression is very interesting. J.W. Titian.
(Keeps a macaroni store in Venice, at the old family stand.)
It is the neatest thing in still life I have seen for years.
Rosa Bonheur.
The smile may be almost called unique. Bismarck.
I never saw such character portrayed in a picture face before. DeMellville.
There is a benignant simplicity about the execution of this work whichwarms the heart toward it as much, full as much, as it fascinates theeye. Landseer.
One cannot see it without longing to contemplate the artist.
Frederick William.
Send me the entire edition--together with the plate and the originalportrait--and name your own price. And--would you like to come over andstay awhile with Napoleon at Wilhelmshohe? It shall not cost you a cent.William III.