48 NOTES ON URONZE. 



that is Hadrian's Wall. A man that has seen the Wall well, 

 he dreams of the Wall. Standing, say, on the hoary west-gate 

 masonry of Static Burcovicus, and looking this way and that, along 

 the great lonesome pastures fenced on the north for miles by the 

 Wall, he almost sees the cohorts patrolling, almost hears the 

 alarm blasts of the tuba echoed from crag to crag. So, in a 

 manner, it is with bronze. The very word bronze sets us imagin- 

 ing in our minds the ancient, the mediaeval, the vast, the delicate 

 works in that enduring metal the Mercury of Herculaneum 

 the gates of Ghiberti the seventy cubit Phoebus of Rhodes 

 the parcel-gilt enamelled fibula from Charminster, Dorset. 



