=Titian.= 1477-1576. The most famous of all Venetian painters. One of the greatest artists the world has known. =Bellinis.= Pictures by Giovanni Bellini, 1427(?)-1516, a great Venetian painter, and the instructor of Titian. =Andiamo.= Let us go. =Palazzo Giovanelli.= A Venetian palace containing a small but beautiful collection of paintings. =Giorgiones.= Pictures by Giorgione, 1477-1511, a pupil of Bellini, much noted for color effects. =Florian’s.= A famous Venetian café, some 200 years old. =Speriamo.= We hope. A FIGHT WITH DEATH By IAN MACLAREN Heroism is as great in daily life as in battle. We live beside heroic figures perhaps not recognizing their greatness. Plain, simple surroundings, daily scenes, everyday people, the accustomed language of daily life, may all take on noble proportions. _A Fight with Death_ is a local color story, for it gives the dialect, the way of life, the character, of certain people in a remote part of Scotland. It is a story of noble type, presenting a character ideal—a country doctor fighting for the life of a humble patient. The world will always appreciate any story that finds the ideal in the actual; it will appreciate it all the sooner if it is written, as in this case, with plenty of action, vivid character drawing, natural, everyday language, and touches of pathos and of humor, all so combined that the story rises to climax, and wakens sympathy. _A Fight with Death_ is the third of a series of five simple, exquisitely pathetic stories of Scotch life, entitled _A Doctor of the Old School_, printed in the collection of stories called _Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush_, by Ian Maclaren,—the pseudonym of Rev. John Watson. The author was born in Manningtree, Essex, in 1850. He gained a large part of his education in Edinburgh University, and has spent many years in intimate touch with Scotch life. In addition to _Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush_ Dr. Watson has written a number of books, the most notable being _Days of Auld Lang Syne_, _The Upper Room_, and _The Mind of the Master_. =Drumsheugh’s grieve.= Drumsheugh is tenant of a large farm. The “grieve” is his farm manager. =Greet.= Cry. =A certain mighty power.= Death. =Sough.= Breathe. =Thraun.= Perverse. =Shilpit.= Weak. =Feckless.= Spiritless. =Pushioned.= Poisoned. =Kirny aitmeal.= Oatmeal with full kernels. =Buirdly.= Strong. =Fecht.= Fight. =Haflin.= A stripling,—half-grown. =Dour chiel.= Stubborn fellow. =Caller.= Fresh. =Oxters.= Armpits. =Grampians.= Mountains in central Scotland. =Byre.= Cow-barn. =Thole.= Endure,—permit. =Fraikin’.= Disgraceful action. =Glen Urtach.= A valley in the highlands. =Jess.= The doctor’s old horse.