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an eagerness of attitude rather than of expression, for 

 the face is quite calm. Hardly even among the Elgin 

 marbles is there anything nobler than this. It must 

 have occupied the northern extremity of the pedi- 

 ment, and is supposed to represent a nymph watching 

 the struggle. Next to this is (2) a magnificent 

 fragment a woman in the grasp of a centaur. The 

 head and half the body of the woman are perfect, 

 and much resemble the nymph in treatment. Both 

 have their hair confined in a close-fitting cap. Of 

 the centaur there only remains the right leg, which 

 powerfully clutches the woman's waist. These, with 

 the rest of the figures from the pediments, the Victory 

 of Paionios, and some beautiful fragments of metopes, 

 representing the Labours of Hercules, were standing 

 in a wooden shed, whence they Avill eventually be 

 removed to the museum at Athens. In a smaller 

 shed, among numerous fragments of mouldings, 

 pottery, &c., we saw two grand heads, quite perfect 

 a female and a male. The latter is supposed to 

 represent Apollo, and to have stood in the centre of 

 the western pediment. 



Of all these sculptures the Germans are taking 

 casts and photographs. Those found in 1876 are 

 already to be seen in the ' Ausgrabungen zu 

 Olympia,' published at Berlin, which contains all 

 the figures of Alkamenes. The importance of this 

 find can hardly be exaggerated. Paionios and Alka- 

 menes were mere names to us. And yet of Alka- 



