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PREFACE
These volumes are gleanings from letters written home
during a sojourn in Munich for the purpose of artistic
study. They record the beautiful and happy experiences
belonging to a peculiarly poetical chapter in the life of
a woman studying Art. Should some readers, however,
cavil at what they may deem a certain couleur-de-rose
medium through which all objects seem to have been
viewed, the writer would simply reply, that to her it
appears more graceful for a Student of Art to present
herself in public as the chronicler of the deep emotions
of joy and of admiration called forth in her soul by
great works of imagination, than as the chronicler of
what in her eyes may have appeared defects and short-
comings. The sole shadow, therefore, which the writer
These volumes are gleanings from letters written home
during a sojourn in Munich for the purpose of artistic
study. They record the beautiful and happy experiences
belonging to a peculiarly poetical chapter in the life of
a woman studying Art. Should some readers, however,
cavil at what they may deem a certain couleur-de-rose
medium through which all objects seem to have been
viewed, the writer would simply reply, that to her it
appears more graceful for a Student of Art to present
herself in public as the chronicler of the deep emotions
of joy and of admiration called forth in her soul by
great works of imagination, than as the chronicler of
what in her eyes may have appeared defects and short-
comings. The sole shadow, therefore, which the writer