A Venetian Love - Story. By B. L. Tottenham. (Osgood, McIlvaine, and
Co.)—Our author has most certainly caught something of the fiery passions of sunny Italy in delineating the gifted and emotional young painter, and a daughter of St. Mark. Paolo Fasoli, the artist who seems to have reverted to those wonderful men who painted visions, is a powerful study of a naturally noble nature, whom the temperament of his race eventually wrecks in a great passion. Carita d'Este is almost a lurid portrait of what we can imagine a Venetian woman of the late Middle Ages to have been, great from their unique beauty and absolute lack of principle. The character of Fasoli is the finer study ; one sees in him how the artist with an ideal may fall. Admirable as is Bastian Zanelli with all the passion and jealousy of his race, it is Fasoli who takes most of our sympathy. The story, the plot., and the treatment are Venetian to the core; it is a tragic but strongly written and quite fascinating tale.
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