ON THE PROGRESS OF SCULPTURE. 4?! 



oflfice at Olympia, from respect to the statuary, 

 conferred on the descendants of Phidias, with an 

 ample salary annexed to it. 



But " Claudite jam rivos." — 



In the words of an eminent critic, I may con- 

 clude — " Nescio, Benevoli auditores, an vestram 

 patientiam his nugis fatigaverim, meam certe eas 

 scribendo fatigavi." 



