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The sculptor Soteles, who had followed his footsteps since the apprenticeship in Rhodes, was intrusted with the erection of the ifted young sculptor, who pursued his former course, with the execution of the one to hisvessel of chased silver for the society of Ephebi, whose iven in his honour, with genuine youthful fervour

In the designs for these works his rich and bold gift of invention and the power of his iination proved their full value, and even his older fellow-artists followed him with sincere adht before them distinctly, and often even with the charcoal or wax tablet in his hand, what he had in ht not this ht, what ht not have been expected! and his former works, which had been condeerated, were now loudly adround and the Street Boy Eating Figs, which were no longer his property, were sold at high prices No reat self-possession which success and wealth bestowed, besides his rey peculiar to hi the members of his profession; nay, he would speedily have reached the head of their leaders had not the passionate impetuosity of his warlike nature led the more cautious to seek to restrain the powerful enthusiast

Archias's wealthy friends had no such apprehension To them the lauded blind artist was not uests; yet this, too, was no trifle in social circles which spent small fortunes for a rare fish

At the banquets of these princes of commerce he often met Daphne, still more frequently the beautiful Glycera, whose husband, an old ship-owner of regal wealth, was pleased to see fa wife's chariot of victory Hermon's heart had little to do with the flirtation to which Glycera encouraged hi, and the Thracian Althea only served to train his intellect to sharp debates But in this manner he so admirably fulfilled her desire to attract attention that she more than once pointed out to the Queen, her relative, the remarkably handsoht of ht it necessary to win him, in whom she saw the future son-in-law of the wealthy Archias, for through the graminateus Proclus the 's wife hundreds of talents, and Arsinoe cherished plans which threatened to consue sums