Fair and False Bartholomew Sparrow Montgomery Montgomery, Bartholomew Sparrow Illustrator Hablot Knight Browne Browne, Hablot Knight (pseudonym Phiz) Metadata research and editing DVPP Project Team Fukushima Kailey University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project Victoria, BC, Canada

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 Poem signed B. S. Montgomery. (AC) Once a Week 1 3 78 710 There was a tender beauty in her face, text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 115%; letter-spacing: 0.05em; word-spacing: 0.15em; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 3em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1.25em; font-size: 95%; font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 0.05em; text-align: right; margin-right: 14em; display: block; margin-top: -1.21em; font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 0.05em; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0em; display: none; display: inline; display: block; width: 50%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; font-size: 1rem; width: 48em; Column work. Instructed to modify column-related lg indents. Completed verification work. Set status to 'verified'. Created pom_306_incid_poem rendition to reset font-sizes. Added useful rendition elements in anticipation of CSS reworking. Marking specific renditions as incidental. Handle base cases of incidental titles. Extracted small-caps style into rendition element using XSLT. Re-organized change elements in descending date order. Assigned dominant rhyme-scheme value to poem div using automated XSLT. Set status to 'proofed'. Changed CSS to follow updated protocols and maintain consistency across periodical/year. Added illustration information: figDesc and keywords. Needs attention: poem width is set to column width.
Fair and False.
A woman standing and holding two marionette puppets that have heart-shaped heads. An angel is standing to her left. Illustration is surrounded by a stylized curved border. 1/2 page.
There was a tender beauty in her face, A smile like magic, A mystic light within her soft dark eyes, Half gay—half tragic ; As if the better angel of her life At times were grieving, To find that one so fair and young could be Ever deceiving. For, shame to tell ! she trifled with two hearts, With both coquetting, And so I tore her image from my breast, My love forgetting. Yet blame not all because deceit lay shrined In heart so youthful ; For one false woman, trust me, you will find Ten thousand truthful ! B. S. Montgomery .
A man standing and holding a doll in his out-stretched arm; he is pulling his body away from the doll. There is a destroyed framed painting of a woman on the floor. 1/4 page.