A COMPLIMENT TO A MEXICAN LADY.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 116, 22 February 1872, Page 3

A COMPLIMENT TO A MEXICAN LADY.

Tin-: following extract from the San Francisco Alin California of the 24th August, from one describing his visit to the “ Art Gallery,” is highly complimentary to a young Mexican lady well known in the society of this capital:—

“One little thing of merit, modest and unpretending, but with all the truth, expression, pathos, and tenderness which only the born artist can impress upon the work of their hands, we noticed among the numerously meritorious things hanging upon the walls of this facetiouslynamed Art Gallery. It is almost ‘nothing’ in the eye of the casual observer strolling through the apartment. It is merely a little crayon drawing from the plaster cast of a dead child's face, but there is such an indescribable mingling of the majesty of death with the soft innocence of features, in a face so newly born,the sweet rotundity of infancy suddenly frozen with a wisdom greater than that of age. This little fragmentary tiling, so strange and still among its gaudy, flaunting surroundings, excited our cm iosity. We found on enquiry that the cast was picked up in a street in the City of Mexico, some years since, by a young girl greatly gifted with the painter’s art, and then studying for pastime. The same young lady, Scnorita Luz Acosta, is now teaching in the Pacific Female College at Oakland. Judging from this draw ing, in her incipient studies, we consider her pupils in good hands.” Mexico Paper.