still, a great man--proud, frank, fearless and conscientious."




TITIAN

Titian by a few strokes of the brush knew how to make the general
image and character of whatever object he attempted. His great
care was to preserve the masses of light and of shade, and to
give by opposition the idea of that solidity which is inseparable
from natural objects. He was the greatest of the Venetians, and
deserves to rank with Raphael and Michelangelo.

--_Sir Joshua Reynolds_

[Illustration: TITIAN]


The march of progress and the rage for improvement make small impression
on Venice. The cabmen have not protested against horsecars as they did in
Rome, tearing up the tracks, mobbing the drivers, and threatening the
passengers; neither has the cable superseded horses as a motor power, and
the trolley then rendered the cable obsolete.

In short, there never was a horse in Venice, save those bronze ones over
the entrance to Saint Mark's, and the one Napoleon rode to the top of the
Campanile. But there are lions in Venice--stone lions--you see them at
every turn. "Did you ever see a live horse?" asked a ten-year-old boy of
me, in Saint Mark's Square.