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beautiful pieces of sculpture. But after all, is this so? We 

 have not their many pagan gods to model, but what about the 

 eternal verities for which they stood? These, each and every 

 race must always have, and must always go on representing, 

 each in their own way. 



Keep to these in garden images rather than admit the feebly 

 pictorial. Even a mediocre faun, representing the spirit of 

 woods and dells and all out-of-doors, is better than a most 

 excellently executed girl tying her sandal, or boy with a sliver 

 in his foot. A statue is a permanent thing and should repre- 

 sent a truth, not an incident. Make this the test, outdoors 

 at least : I find it a very satisfactory one for all places. 



