The Apostles carry the Body of the Virgin to the Tomb.

The Entombment.

THE ASSUMPTION.  Distinction between the Assumption of the Body and the
  Assumption of the Soul of the Virgin.  The Assumption as a Mystery; as
  an Event.

LA MADONNA BELLA CINTOLA.  The Legend of the Girdle; as painted in the
  Cathedral at Prato.

Examples of the Assumption as represented by various Artists.

THE CORONATION as distinguished from the Incoronata; how treated as
  an historical Subject.  Conclusion.

NOTE.

The decease of Mrs. Jameson, the accomplished woman and popular writer, at an advanced period of life, took place in March, 1860, after a brief illness.  But the frame had long been worn out by past years of anxiety, and the fatigues of laborious literary occupation conscientiously undertaken and carried out.  Having entered certain fields of research and enterprise, perhaps at first accidentally, Mrs. Jameson could not satisfy herself by anything less than the utmost that minute collection and progressive study could do to sustain her popularity.  Distant and exhausting journeys, diligent examination of far-scattered examples of Art, voluminous and various reading, became seemingly more and more necessary to her; and at the very time of life when rest and slackened effort would have been natural,—­not merely because her labours were in aid of others, but to satisfy her own high sense of what is demanded by Art and Literature,—­did her hand and brain work more and more perseveringly and thoughtfully, till at last she sank under her weariness; and passed away.

The father of Miss Murphy was a miniature-painter of repute, attached, we believe, to the household of the Princess Charlotte.  His daughter Anna was naturally taught by him the principles of his own art; but she had instincts for all,—­taste for music,—­a feeling for poetry,—­and a delicate appreciation of the drama.  These gifts—­in her youth rarer in combination than they are now (when the connection of the arts is becoming understood, and the love of all increasingly diffused)—­were, during part of Mrs. Jameson’s life, turned to the service of education.—­It was not till after her marriage, that a foreign tour led her into authorship, by the publication of “The Diary of an Ennuyee,” somewhere about the year 1826.—­It was impossible to avoid detecting in that record the presence of taste, thought, and feeling, brought in an original fashion to bear on Art, Society, Morals.—­The reception of the book was decisive.—­It was followed, at intervals, by “The Loves of the Poets,” “Memoirs of Italian Painters,” “The Lives of Female Sovereigns,” “Characteristics of Women” (a series of Shakspeare studies; possibly its writer’s most popular book).  After this, the Germanism so prevalent five-and-twenty years ago, and now somewhat gone by, possessed itself of