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"Excellent, , and Daphne remarked that the poet Cleon had surprised her father with such a poem a feeeks before It was a marvellous bit of botchwork, and yet there was a certainin the production, compiled solely from Homeric verses

"Diomed's Hecuba," observed Proclus, "and the Aphrodite by Hippias, which were executed in inated in the sareat e can also boast of other artists Filled with the spirit of the god, they are able to model truthfully and faithfully even the forms of the immortals invisible to the physical eye They stand before the spectator as if borrowed from Nature, for their creators have filled theed to this class and, after your Demeter, the world will include you in it also"

"And yet," answered Hermon in a tone of dissent, "I re at all of my own personality, into the forms borrowed from Nature"

"What need of that was there?" asked Proclus with a subtle ss reat Athenians created types for eternity, so also does Nature at times in a happy hour, for her own pleasure, and such alady! The outlines of the figure--By the dog! Herht possibly have found for and lifelike is the soraceful pose of yours! And then the heart, the soul! In your coly to share your feelings in order to have at his disposal everything which renders so dear to us all the giver of bread, the preserver of peace, the protector of e, the creator and supporter of the law of moderation in Nature, as well as in human existence Where would all these traits be foundthan in your person, Daphne, your quiet, kindly rule?"

"Oh, stop!" the girl entreated "I am only too well aware--"

"That you also are not free from human frailties," Proclus continued, undisreat or sain The secret ones do not concern the sculptor, who does not or will not see thenise through every feature of your sweet, tranquillizing face, is enough for the genuine artist to ioddess; for the distinction between the ree of perfection, and the hu more perfect in the whole domain of Demeter's jurisdiction than is presented to thenificent work of art proves how nearly it approaches the purest and loftiest conception we foroddess whom he had to represent It is not that he deified you, Daphne; he nised in you"