Excerpt from Venice as an Art City
Venice, sovereign in Art, is likewise imperious in mood. To one a hard unbending task-mistress, to another the gracious and radiant Queen, she pours forth the glittering abundance of her treasures only on him who approaches her throne in the true spirit of appreciation. Her favours are not for those - too numerous, alas! in these utilitarian days - who hasten through the temples of her Art, checking with the prosaic zeal of an accountant the inventoried items of their catalogues; neither are they for those who, ambitious for fashion's sake of returning from their travels with the reputation of the expert, are so absorbed in tabulating and classifying the masterpieces of Art and their creators, that they never lift their eyes to the glory that lies beyond mere names and details.
But the man who has made of Life a study, and of Travel an art - who has abjured the vain desire of seeing everything and anything, and only seeks in each city that which is most typical, which is most characteristic - to him shall the Fairy City reveal all that is best and most precious among her countless marvels, whose glittering roll months would not suffice to exhaust.
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