Our illustration of acharming silver bust of a boy suffices to bring into evidencetwo characteristics of Mercies genius, namely, intensity of feel-ing and unerring sentiment of beauty in form. I use the word genius expressly, for M. Mercie, of all contemporary Frenchsculptors, seems the most gifted… … THE FIRST KISS—DOUBLE BUST.—By M. Rene de Saint-Marceaux. MODERN FRENCH SCULPTURE. 251 porary life, reading neither books nor newspapers, taking nopart in civic or patriotic business, frequenting but rarely thesociety of a few friends, and being, in fact, a sort of artistichermit isolated in the…
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