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“WATER SPRITES SPORTING IN SPRAY,” IN THE GARDENS OF MRS. E. S. GREW AT WEST MANCHESTER, MASS. 
not merely ornamental—behind each of them is a distinct and 
ppowerful purpose. In some of them even a child may read « great 
»principle of life. For instance, who ever heard of a man in this 
eworld doing any great work without there being, behind «ll his 
saction, however far back it may be, a woman? Somewhere, in 
every great career there has been a woman—or, perhaps, women— 
rwho gave ‘the. hero his ideals, his, inspiration, ‘his incentive to ac- 
ition, or the love, sympathy and encouragement that nourished 
thim, and brought him up, alive, out of the valley of despair. In 
rone of her;works, Mrs. Ladd has;shown this most beautifully. It 
tis the figure of a man with a head and frame that suggests do- 
‘minion and an invincible spirit. The message is written there 
780 startlingly real that it is some seconds before the spectator 
‘ean leave it to glance at the pedestal and catch the true signifi- 
veance of the piece—for that on which the man rests, that which 
is raising him into his power and glory are the shoulders of three 
ywomen. And Mrs. Ladd’s wonderful art has gone still farther 
rand written on those woman-faces that which each gave +o the 
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man to make him what he is. Mrs. Ladd calls the piece ‘The 
Master’’—a name which at once expresses the thought and car- 
ries with it a bit of irony against the man who takes unto him- 
self all the glory for any good thing to which he has attained. 
The pictures shown herewith are some of the sculptress’ crna- 
mental pieces. They are all beautiful, but lack that earnestness 
of purpose that goes with Mrs. Ladd’s highest art. ‘‘Diana and 
Endymion’’, are two decorative panels in the house of J. Warren 
Merrill, of Manchester-by-the-Sea. They express a favorite le- 
gend of Greek mythology. In ‘‘The Sun-God’’, a bronze, Mrs. 
Ladd has expressed a pretty conception of Day overcoming Night. 
The composition of the god’s body is particularly good. ‘‘The 
Water-Sprites’’ is a: most unusual work. Here the composition 
of the bodies is wonderful. Mrs. Ladd achieved this splendid 
piece only by the use, as models, of two acrobats who, through 
days and days of strenuous labor, posed in this difficult feat, 
twenty seconds at a time, until the artist caught the full im- 
pression as she wished it. 
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