Life on the Lagoons.

The article focuses on the book "Life on the Lagoons," by Horatio F. Brown. In this book, Brown sketches the Venetian life. He writes as one who, from long intimacy, has come to know the life of the people to-day, just as, by profound and sympathetic study, he has come to know the history of Venice. Brown is as free from illusions regarding the Byromo or stage-villain Venetians of the past as he is from the Ruskinian contempt for modern Venetians. He brings forward many quaint legends and many well-told accounts of contemporary customs, he is alive to the unique position of Venice in art and in history.