222 SCULPTURE BY POWERS. [CHAP. XXXVI. 



their veins ; they confessed themselves unable to guess, for the 

 two girls were not only among the best scholars, but better look 

 ing and less dark than many of the other pupils. 



At Mr. Longworth s we saw a beautiful piece of sculpture, an 

 ideal head called Ginevra, by Hiram Powers, who had sent it 

 from Rome as a present to his first patron. It appeared to me 

 worthy of the genius of the sculptor of &quot; Eve&quot; and the &quot; Greek 

 Slave.&quot; Thorwaldsen, when he saw Powers &quot; Eve,&quot; foretold 

 that he would create an era in his art ; and not a few of the 

 Italians now assign to him the first place in the &quot; Naturalista&quot; 

 school, though assuredly there is much of the ideal also in his 

 conceptions of the beautiful. It augurs well for the future culti 

 vation of the fine arts in the United States, that the Americans 

 are as proud of their countryman s success as he himself could 

 desire. 



