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PREFACE. ix
some inconsistencies, for which he can only ask to be for-
given.
Whatever may be thought of the Author's mode of treating
his subject, few will deny the importance of the subject itself.
The interest it awakens is altogether independent of the view
which we may take of the future of modern sculpture. If,
as many think, and notably the more eminent sculptors them-
selves, Sculpture is a lost art, it has, at any rate, the interest
and value of a dead language—a language in which the
noblest thoughts and tenderest feelings of the most highly
gifted people of the world have been written in characters of
surpassing clearness and beauty.
In the hope that his efforts may do something to promote
the study of a subject hitherto too much neglected, the Author
commits his work to the indulgence of the public.
ATHEtMSUM Club :
October, 1881.
some inconsistencies, for which he can only ask to be for-
given.
Whatever may be thought of the Author's mode of treating
his subject, few will deny the importance of the subject itself.
The interest it awakens is altogether independent of the view
which we may take of the future of modern sculpture. If,
as many think, and notably the more eminent sculptors them-
selves, Sculpture is a lost art, it has, at any rate, the interest
and value of a dead language—a language in which the
noblest thoughts and tenderest feelings of the most highly
gifted people of the world have been written in characters of
surpassing clearness and beauty.
In the hope that his efforts may do something to promote
the study of a subject hitherto too much neglected, the Author
commits his work to the indulgence of the public.
ATHEtMSUM Club :
October, 1881.