“…a picture by Langley, showing a stray beggar boy, who has 

evidently been called in by a woman who has taken pity on 

him. The boy, pitifully drawing his bare feet under the bench 

is eating; the woman is looking on, probably considering 

whether he will not want some more; and a girl of about 

seven, leaning on her arm, is carefully and seriously looking 

on, not taking her eyes from the hungry boy and is evidently 

understanding for the first time what poverty is and what 

inequality among people is, and asking herself why she has 

everything provided for her while this boy goes barefoot 

and hungry? She feels sorry and yet pleased, and she 

loves both the boy and goodness… One feels that the artist 

loved this girl and that she too loves. And this picture, by an 

artist who, I think, is not very widely known, is an admirable 

and true work of art.”