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before the public eye without infringement upon
the riRhtful reticence Of private life. We add
that the story is told with tho sympathy and
unfeiRned admiration which best qualify . biog-
rarher for the performance of hs task.
william wetmore Story was the second son
and sixth child OF Joseph Story, Associate JUS
tice Of the United States Supreme Court, and
Sarah Waldo Wctmore. his wife. Ho was born
in Salem. Mass, on Feb. IL. 1919. and died in
tho woods OF vallambrosa, where. indeed, no
would have wished to die. on Oct. 10. 1895. or
his father 1t is needless to speak; Judge Story's
work on the bench of the Federal Supreme
Court and as q professor in tho Harvard Law
School has become q part Of our national and
State history. The largo red brick mansion
built by Judge Story in 1912. In which the artist
was born, still stands in Salem within high
walled gardens bordering on Washington square,.
Hero William Story spent the first ten years
OF his life, but in 1929. his father having
been appointed a professor in the Harvard
Law School. went to Cambridge &c. and IL was at q
school in this town that William Story was
fitted for college. At Harvard, young Story
seems to have been inclined to be an "Admi-
rablo Crichton," and we hear nothing about his
place on the rank list. but we do learn that he
was tho class poet when no graduated in 1888.
Entering the Harvard Law School. he obtained
the degree Of LII. B. n the twenty-frst year Of
his age, when he was admitted to tho bar. He
continued to practice until 1sds, three years
after his fathers death, having been. mean
while, reporter of the Circuit Court, Com
missioner in Bankruptcy and Commissioner
of the United States. He also argued
many cases, and published a number OF legal
works, including several editions Of his fathers
writings. The biographer has secured from
surviving friends a number of letters relating
to this period; 1t appears that. although busted
with the law, William Story found time to con.
tribute a good many poems and essays to the
Boston Miscellany, one of which, quoted by the
blographer. bears witness to the strength of his
predisposition to artistic work. In another
composition he recognized that, for an Ameri-
can in the ~forties. love of art was almost neces.
sarily a sentence of expatriatlon.
On Oct. 81, 1s43. Mr.. Story married Miss
Emelyn Eldrodge. n lady belonging to one of
the most distinguished families of Boston. and
described as being very beautiful and of
queenly presence" In the following year he
delivered the Phi Beta Kappa poem. his father
making the address on the same day. Four
years later. at tho age of 90, Mr.. Story. en-
couraged by his wife. but against the wishes of
his mother, abandoned the law and crossed the
ocean. that he might try his fortune at the
fountainhead Of art. A letter from Margaret
Fuller to Mrs. Story, then in Florence. shadows
forth the coming of Mr.. Story and his
little family to Rome. In the Eternal
City we hear of the Storys first as being
domiciled in the Piazza di Spagna. and.
shortly afterward. within tho gates and walls
OF tho Palazzo Barberini. with its delightful
gardens of palm trees. flowers. and fountains.
Here the artist dwelt for forty-ive years, en-.
countering many defeats and cheered by many
n triumph. In his homo were gradually collect.
cd the treasures of friendship and art. A friend
described 1t as resembling. in some portions, an
oriental bazaar, while other parts of 1t were so
classical that one might imagine himself in the
atrium of q Roman patrician. Throughout the
apartment were to BIO seen a sculptor's concep-
lions in marble. besides the marks of q literary
man and the trophies of n traveller. One of the
largest rooms was made into q theatre, where
not 4 few musical compositions and little theat-
rical pieces in English. Italian. or French were
first submitted to public approval. We are told
that the long suite of beautiful rooms consti.
tuted in later days a congenial neutral ground,
where the Romans themselves could forget the
dissensions that ordinarily separated the ad.
herents of the Vatican from those Of the Quiri-
nal. Papal Blacks" and royal whites"
were alike assured of q hearty welcome from
him. whose amiab!lity and courtesy caused him
to be called II simpatico Americano. We
bhouiu III " u thhI isOucTt brOWn-
ing and his wife were often visitors In this
home. and that Lander and Tennyson were
familiar spirits. One OF the most interesting of
the friendships begun here was that between
Story and Thackeray. 1.-THE Rose and the
Ring is said to have been written by Thack-
cray for Mr.. Story's little daughter, Edith, and
read to her chapter by chapter.
Mr.. story's first studio in Rome was on tho
Via Sistina. which gives from the head of the
Spanish Steps a Wow Of the whole Leonine
City crowned by st. Peters itself. He did not
long remain there. however. but removed to a
street which opened from tho Piazza Barberini
through the new quarters Of Rome. 1t was
while his sculptor's york was done In the last.
named street that he was visited by Nathaniel
Hawthorne. whose description OF Kenyon's studio
In tho Marble Faun Is taken from this atelier
of Story's. Not long afterward success came to
Story, though not until some fourteen years
had elapsed since his settlement in Italy. 1t was
Plus TX. who. by sending Mt his own expense
the American sculptor's works to the London Eek.
position of 1862. opened the way to artistic and
pocuniary recognition. Already, however. in
1855. the statue OF Judge Story had been com.
pletod by his son and delivered to the trustees
OF Mount Auburn Cemetery, and three years
later tho "Arcadian Shepherd Boy" had
been presented to the Boston Public Library.
On the "Libyan Sibyl" and Mr.. Story's first
statue OF Cleopatra some by Mrs.
II. b. stowe and Nathaniel Hawthorne are
quoted on pages 1904. Both critics. and, ap-
parently, tho sculptor also. made the mistake Of
assuming that Cleopatra had Nubian blood in
her veins. whereas she was OF the purest Greek
type. the Ptolemles having always been SO care
full to avoid the admixture of any clement
not Greek or Macedonian that they even
married their half-sisters. 1t was a blum
der. also. to give tho features of the
"Libyan Sibyl" a Nubian cast. For
the Libyans depicted in the Egyptian rock.
paintings. arc strongly contrasted with tho
Nubians, and are evidently Representatives Of
the fair'sLinned race which once inhabited
North Africa, and whereof the Kabyles are
survivors. Tho genesis OF the second, OF
~recumbent. statue of Cleopatra is rscounted
on page 229. 1t appears that a friend