A Poor Likeness

Here is a good story illustratjve of the prosaic nature on which art makes no impression : In Westminster abbey there is a large marble tablet in memory of a famous bishop. It is a basrelief, representing the bishop - a portrait - in the agony of death, sinking into the arms of an allegorioal female figure, presumably intended for the angel of death. It is said that an aged couple from the country were being shown ronnd the abbey, and pausing long before the tablet the old lady remarked to her husband: "That 's a good likness of the bishop, but, " regarding the angelic personage attentively, "it'saverypoor oneof Mrs. . I knew her well, and she didc't look like that. ' '