Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
In 1872 insomnia seized Dante Rossetti, and thenceforth till his death in April, 1882, his life, notwithstanding many splendid pictures (for which he obtained, for he was a rare hand at a bargain, high prices), and notwithstanding his triumphant Ballads and Sonnets," becopies the painful record of a mind diseased. -His friends fell away from him ; and .the tale his brother tells with much frankness is a tale of mis ry and wretchedness. Better have been a ploughman whistling to his team, an'l sleeping' his six .hours out of every twenty-four, with the certainty o'f chil'd'hood, than the painter of "•Dante's Dream" and " The Roman Widow".; than the poet who sang of " The "White Ship" and "The King's Tragedy."— A.ugustine Birrell. L The whitest city in the world is Cadiz. It. is built of stone of such pure white that it looks like a city of snow. The yield, of grain"crops-jn Russia this year is estimated at equal to ■ about 232,000,000 -bushgls lscg tfaam a year ago.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, 22 June 1900, Page 3
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170Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Mount Ida Chronicle, 22 June 1900, Page 3
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