Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-11-03
will. Among the statuary.

N. p. Willis gives an account in his
Home Journal of recent visit to the
"Studio Build ng" in Tenth street, New
York, to look at seven new statues "
by Mozier. Willis preferred Peri, or
Eden Regained," of which he writes:
1.-THE inspired cor ception ofthis statue
its repose, grace, dignity, and majesty,
particularly in the high bred formation
of the features of the iace-made it one
to be selected (by the imagination) as
the first and sweetest, for sacred COM
pany and artistic worship"
The high bred is in the poets italics.
1t is gratifying to hear Of the high bred
formation of the features. Breeding is
the specially of Willis. Mozier himself
preferred the "Predgal Son which he
had produced. Willis says:
1.-The turbaned old patriarch and the
forgiven boy are admirable conceptions
of the two characteristic imagining and
the chiselng being both Of the highest
grading of genius-my only objection to
the group being the mistaken childishness
of the forgiven boy How could so
young and delicately formed creature
ever have been the sinner so astonish-
ingly forgiven? With the innocent little
goblet on his hip for self:denying water,
he never could have been an ntemperate
bacchasa allan, and he wanted Gf Iremem.
Der rightly most of the developments OF
bold carouser. He is, here, the sim
plest shepherds child, who comes to re-
pent of being the most abandoned OF
roues. Such dear little fellow, after
saying his prayers at his fathers knee,
would go to sleep on his mothers pillow
anywhere T.
Willis is certainly right about this.
The "Prodigal Son" ought to have been
= rough customer before he repented.
There is also female Indian in the
group, of which Willis said:
"The No. was Pocahontas--a con-
ception of Indian beauty, in the dress
of the noble women of her tribe, with a
fawn introduced to support the figure
and as an emblem of the wilderness.
1t is a most graceful. yet reticent, too
unvoluptuous an Aboriginal Princess
for my taste. I should like Pocahon.
tas considerably plumper, to begin with.
Another figure is LA Penserosa:
"Hail thou goddess, sage and holy,
Hail divinest Melancholy"
Ofthis Mr.. Willis says:
"And this was figure of most inno-
Gently unconscious nskedness, the wings
(which might modestly inclose the ex.
posed pelvis) suspended from the should
er blades, and behaving like outside pc.
tails to just blown pond-lilies-snugly fit
and to be adapted to inclosure, if
wanted |"
One incidental objection, upon which
had passing argument with the artsit
the unnecessary contiguity Off certain
curly.headed cuffee to all this marble
white company-it being his waiter S
Office to turn round the beautiful figures
on their pivoted pedestals, and show
them to us with all the exposures. The
black fellow grinned to us to inquire
what we wished particularly to see, as
he could turn "Undine," or "Jeptha' $
Daughter" or Pocahontas," or the
"Wept of the Wish.ton- Wish" each on
her pivot and the obliging attendant
then smiling his thick.lipped satisfaction
in having pleased u.s. 1t was impossible
not to contrast the black and white
figures $50 grouped within the railing),
and it would have been so easy (itseemed
to me) to veil this same very useful cir
culator from sight