_LONDON_ * Published by DAVID NUTT at the Sign of the Phoenix, Long Acre * _1907_ To those who are fortunate enough to know Miss Alexander's pen and pencil pictures of Italian peasant life the very name of Francesca, over which her early work was published, carries with it an aroma as of those humbler graces of her adopted people,--their sunny charity, their native sense of the beautiful, their childlike faith,--which touch the heart more intimately than all their great achievements in History and in Art. For those, however, to whom are yet unknown her faithful transcripts in picture and story from the lives of the people she loves, a word of introduction has been asked; and it was perhaps …
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