REVIEW
ful winged boy of Praxiteles, or with the runaway of Moschus. The parrot-winged fire-faced child of Arabian fancy belongs to another race and lineage. So does that champion of chivalrous love beheld in vision by Pierre Vidal, who rode a snow-white horse and had the face and limbs of a young knight, followed by the damsels Modesty and Mercy, and by Loyalty for squire. Nor, again, is the Love of this new Mythus to be found upon the pages of the Vita Nuova. The pilgrim who met Dante on the Way of Sighs, the grave-faced and inexorable youth who sat by his bed-side and wept, and communed with him, and was sweet and stern, has more perhaps in common with the Love of Mr. Solomon's Vision than any other. But he is not the same. In truth, the originality of any poetical or pictorial Mythus, such as is embodied in this vision and in the series of Mr. Solomon's drawings, consists in its creator having viewed an old problem with new eyes, and communicated to the object some of the qualities of his own soul and of the age in which he lives. This, in our opinion, Mr. Solomon has done with eminent and unmistakable distinctness.
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