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With the Gods in Spring was a photograph of a painting done by a lady who was said to have no artistic skill whatever. But she had worked under "spirit control," and produced this marvel. The great spiritualist authorities said it was the finest head of the Christ that had ever been painted.

Well, I looked at it, and said, "alas!" within my soul. I am not a painter-man myself, nor a critic of painter-men. But—if one has looked at certain of the masterworks with a humble heart, one has learnt a little, a very little, no doubt, but still something of the elements. The L.C.C. schoolboy learns at quite