o
as embodiments of the four mental temperaments--John, representing the
melancholic; Peter, the meditative, or phlegmatic; Mark, the sanguine;
and Paul, the resolute or choleric.

[231-*] Kuegler. Mrs. Jameson, in her "Visits at Home and Abroad," also
speaks of them as "wonderful! In expression, in calm religious majesty,
in suavity of pencilling, and the grand, pure style of the heads and
drapery, quite like Raffaelle."

[231-[+]] Among the rest is the very marvellous one performed during a
journey in winter, when he was nearly destroyed by cold, and entered a
peasant's cottage, hoping to find relief. The poor man had no fuel, so
the saint made up a fire from the icicles which hung around the house,
completing his good acts by mending his broken kettle, "by blessing it,
at the request of his host," and converting stones into bread by the
same simple process.

[234-*] Vischer's house is situated on the other side of the River
Pegnitz, which divides the town; it is in a steep street rising suddenly
from the water. The house has undergone some alterations in its external
aspect, apparently about the latter half of the seventeenth century. It
is now a baker's shop, having that quiet aspect which characterises such
trades in Germany, the central window on the ground-floor being that
through which bread is passed to applicants, who may mount the steps in
front, or rest on them while waiting. The beam projecting from the large
window in the roof is used as a crane to lift wood and heavy stores to
the upper floors, which are the depositaries for such necessities, and
not the cellars, as with us.

[235-*] Murray's "Handbook of Germany."

[240-*] His grave is in the cemetery of St. John, No. 268.

[243-*] This grave, surrounded by sculpture, forms a little external
chapel, at the back of the choir of St. Sebald's Church. We have already
mentioned Schreyer as the originator of Vischer's shrine in that church.

[244-*] Mrs. Jameson, "Sketches of Art at Home and Abroad." The curious
series of views in Nuernberg, published there by Conrad Monath, about
1650, are remarkably identical with the present aspect of each locality
engraved.

[245-*] The crown and royal robes of Charlemagne were those found in his
tomb at Aix-la-Chapelle, afterwards used in the coronation of the German
emperors for many centuries, and only transferred to Vienna during the
great political changes of the last century. "The sacred relics" are
also at