Famous European Artists

AUTHOR OF "e;POOR BOYS WHO BECAME FAMOUS,"e; "e;GIRLS WHO BECAME FAMOUS,"e; "e;STORIES FROM LIFE,"e; "e;FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHORS,"e; "e;FAMOUS AMERICAN STATESMEN,"e; "e;SOCIAL STUDIES INENGLAND,"e; "e;FROM HEART AND NATURE,"e;"e;FAMOUS MEN OF SCIENCE,"e; ETC. "e;Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live, and it is in your power."e; Marcus Aurelius. "e;Every line, every road, every gable, every tower, has some story of the past present in it. Every tocsin that sounds is a chronicle; every bridge that unites the two banks of the river, unites also the crowds of the living with the heroism of the dead. "e;The beauty of the past goes with you at every step in Florence. Buy eggs in the market, and you buy them where Donatello bought those which fell down in a broken heap before the wonder of the crucifix. Pause in a narrow by-street in a crowd, and it shall be that Borgo Allegri, which the people so baptized for love of the old painter and the new-born art. Stray into a great dark church at evening time, where peasants tell their beads in the vast marble silence, and you are where the whole city flocked, weeping, at midnight"e;