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THE MENTOR . . . . DEPARTMENT OF ART
SERIAL NUMBER 192

S T A I N E D   G L A S S
By IDA J. BURGESS

Artist and Author

MENTOR
GRAVURES

ROSE WINDOW,
CATHEDRAL OF
RHEIMS, FRANCE

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EAST WINDOW,
GLOUCESTER
CATHEDRAL,
FRANCE

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CHOIR WINDOW,
CHURCH OF SANTA
MARIA DEL POPOLO,
ROME

The Russell Sage Memorial Window
Courtesy of the Tiffany Studios
THE RUSSELL SAGE MEMORIAL WINDOW
First Presbyterian Church, Far Rockaway, N.Y.,
Executed in Tiffany Favrile Glass
MENTOR
GRAVURES

MOSES AND THE
LAW, FLEMISH
GLASS

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ST. ROCH, WITH
DONOR AND ANGEL,
GLASS OF THE
RHINELAND

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FLORAL WINDOW
BY JOHN LA FARGE


TRAVELERS in the age of pilgrimages were accustomed to pass many hours in the cathedrals, gazing in wonder and delight at the windows of stained glass. They did not experience half as much difficulty in reading the stories told in those windows as we do, when we go on pleasant pilgrimages in foreign lands, because they were quite able to recognize all their dear saints by their symbols, if not by their faces. Naturally enough there was considerable variety in the way artists of various countries portrayed them.
    Occasionally pilgrims would discover some incident quite new to them in the history of a saint . . . the story of a miracle, unheard of before, perhaps performed by a patron-saint. The delight felt by the fourteenth-century pilgrim in the representation of another miracle attributed to his own particular saint, must have been very like the sensation experienced by a lover of stained glass of our time, on finding in his wanderings another window dating back to the century when glass