Mrs. Jameson and other protestant art critics insist upon the fact that Raphael painted curtains on the canvas to give it pyramidal form, but Seymour says the picture was painted for Pope Sixtus, but it was the Vision of St. Barbara, which Raphael painted. Three years ago, Seymour wrote a serial for the St. Nicholas. It was considered too Romanish. Last year Seymour tried to find a Catholic publisher to publish it in book form, but they said they had no call for such books that their Catholic readers preferred buying art and musical stories from protestant publishers. She would like to send Hudson the first six and last three chapters, and if it would do for the Ave Maria, she might later publish it in book form afterwards. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.