HOMES NEAR TO NATURE 



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BILL— ORPHEUS AND OXEN DRIVER— AT THE OLD STUDIO. 



The beauty is or is not in the mind 

 and heart of the beholder. This old 

 world needs every one to be a sculptor 

 in the modelling- of the beautiful so 

 as to be able to see that beauty and 

 then to so portray it that others may 

 see it. 



But what is the sculptor himself and 

 what has he done? No words of mine 



are needed to tell this. The work of 

 his fingers and chisel is known every- 

 where in the highest realms of art. Not 

 long ago I visited the Metropolitan 

 Museum of Art in New York City, and 

 as I entered the building with a party 

 of young people, I inquired of the at- 

 tendant, "What do you regard as the 

 best thing that you have in the 11111- 



MR. BORGLUM AND MR. DAVENPORT ON A BRIDGE IN THE BEAUTIFUL RAVINE. 



