The only land which separates the wind-swept Fairy Bridges from America is the Slieve-League headland, whose wavy outline is seen in the distance. It, too, finds a place in one of Mr. Allingham's songs, "The Winding Banks of Erne: the Emigrant's Adieu to his Birthplace" (which in ballad form is sung by Erin's children all the world over)-- Farewell to you, Kildenny lads, and them that pull an oar, A lug-sail set, or haul a net, from the Point to Mullaghmore; From Killikegs to bold Slieve-League, that ocean mountain steep, Six hundred yards in air aloft, six hundred in the deep, From Dorran to the Fairy Bridge, and round by Tullen Strand, Level and long and white with waves, where gull and curlew stand, Head out to sea, when on your lee the breakers you discern! Adieu to all the billowy coast, and winding banks of Erne! By a curious coincidence Mr. Allingham when here in "the eighties" sent an "Invitation to a Painter"[16]-- O come hither! weeks together let us watch the big Atlantic, Blue or purple, green or gurly, dark or shining, smooth or frantic; but the first to come was his own wife. [Illustration: 80. THE CHURCH OF STA. MARIA DELLA SALUTE, VENICE _From the Water-colour in the possession of Mr. C. P. Johnson._ Painted 1901.] Mrs. Allingham, after an absence of thirty-three years, visited Italy again in 1901, in company with a fellow-artist, and the following year the Exhibition of the Old Water-Colour Society was rendered additionally interesting by a comparison of her rendering of Venice with that of a fellow lady-member, Miss Clara Montalba, to whose individuality in dealing with it we have before referred. The drawing of Mrs. Allingham's here reproduced shows Venice in quite an English aspect as regards weather. It is almost a grey day; it certainly is a fresh one, and has nothing in common with one which induces the spending of much time about in a gondola. In selecting the Salute for one of her principal illustrations of Venice, Mrs. Allingham has respectfully followed in the footsteps of England's greatest landscapist, for Turner made it the main object in his great effort of the Grand Canal, and there are few of the craft who have failed to limn it again and again in their story of Venice. But whilst most people are disposed to regard it as one of the most beautiful features of the city, the church has fallen under the ban of those exponents of architecture that have studied it carefully.