Yet I think it is fostered by climate a good deal,--the further north, the less inspiration.

Warmth, color, and the lightness of heart that a generally bright sky brings, enlarges the brain and makes it capable of creative power." "My dear sir," said Lorimer, "England does not possess these climatic advantages, and yet Shakespeare was an Englishman." "He must have travelled," returned Gueldmar positively.

"No one will make me believe that the man never visited Italy.

His Italian scenes prove it,--they are full of the place and the people.

The whole of his works, full of such wonderful learning, and containing so many types of different nations, show,--to _my_ mind, at least,--that countries were his books of study.