How to restore antiques.

If you intend to begin at the beginning, why not go back at once to the garden of Eden, and there study the true antique?' 'If there were but any relics of it,' said Lancelot, puzzled, and laughing.

Edward, surnamed "Longshanks," having collected many antiques, and cut up a few also, returned and took charge of the throne.

"Is this one of your valuable and crusted old antiques?" he asked, with a smile, of Mr. Claridge.

"And with Kincaid at the head!" softly cried the antique.

An aged woman sitting in a doorway said, "Hush!" CHAPTER VI Miss Drewitt sat for some time in her room after the visitors had departed, eyeing with some disfavour the genuine antiques which she owed to the enterprise, not to say officiousness, of Edward Tredgold.

Besides, originating nothing, we leave no fashions for another age to copy, when we ourselves shall have grown antique.

Thorwaldsen cannot be said to imitate the antique; he rather seems to be one born in the best age of Grecian art; imbued with the spirit of that age, and producing from his own resources kindred works.

Now there are some "moods of my own mind" in which I detest all vehicles of conveyance, when on an excursive tour to admire the antique and picturesque.

" "How old is she, pray?" "Seventeenby no means an antique.

CHAPTER XI the Uffizi IV: Remaining Rooms S. ZenobiusPiero della FrancescaFederigo da MontefeltroMelozzo da ForliThe TribunaRaphaelRe-arrangementThe gemsThe self-painted portraitsA northern roomHugo van der Goes Tommaso PortinariThe sympathetic MemlingRubens riotousVittoria della RovereBaroccioHonthorstGiovanni the indiscreetThe MedusaMedici miniaturesHercules SeghersThe Sala di Niobe Beautiful antiques.

Thus while the great artist retained the antique, he superadded a loftiness such as the ancients rarely produced; and sculpture became in his hands, not demoralizing and Pagan, resplendent in sensual charms, but instructive and exalting,instructive for the marvellous display of anatomical knowledge, and exalting from grand conceptions of dignity and power.

Hundreds of artists also find support at Rome, in making casts, sulphurs, &c. from ancient gems and medals, and in selling or fabricating antiques.

This style was at first employed with restraint in his earlier works, but Mallarme had boldly proclaimed it in a verse on Theophile Gautier and in l'Apres-midi du faune, an eclogue where the subtleties of sensual joys are described in mysterious and caressing verses suddenly pierced by this wild, rending faun cry: Alors m'eveillerai-je a la ferveur premiere, Droit et seul sous un flot antique

On this point see Salvioli, Le Capitalisme dans le monde antique, ch. vi. is a book with many shortcomings, but written by an Italian who knows his own country.]

But as Shakespeare represents this trouble of the will as arising not from within but through outside circumstances, it becomes a sort of Fate and approaches the antique.