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.306 PARK AND PLAYGROUND.
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XLIIL—PARK AND PLAYGBOTJND
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-* E* Ik The Via Fontanella At Rome,—A S...
has met with that success which talent , combined with industry and never fails to command .
energy The , winter before last , while the Cenci was being put into marble , she was engaged in modelling a monument to the memory of a
beautiful young Catholic lady , which is destined for a niche in the Church of San Andreo delle Fratte , in the Via Mercede , close upon
the Piazza di Spagna . A portrait full-length figure of the young irllife sizereclines upon a low couch . The attitude is easy and
natural g , , and , the tranquil sleep of death is admirably rendered in eontra-distinction to the warm sleep of life in the Cenci .
Miss Hosmer has been engaged during the winter just past , in modelling a fountainfor which she has taken the story of Hylas
, descending for water , when , according to mythology , he is seized upon by the water nymphs and drowned . Hylas forms the crown
of the pyramid , while the nymphs twined around its base , with extended arms seek to drag him down into the water below , where
dolphins are spouting jets which interlace each other ; a double basin , the upper one supported by swans , receives the cascade .
At the present moment , this talented and enterprising young artist is working upon a half life size statue of Zenobia , in
preparation for next winter , when it is to . be modelled even larger than life and is already bespoken for America . She is also just
finishing a pendant to Puck , Will-o' -the-Wisp , which is wholly indescribable , and is said to be superior even to Puck .
M . M . H .
.306 Park And Playground.
. 306 PARK AND PLAYGROUND .
Xliil—Park And Playgbotjnd
XLIIL—PARK AND _PLAYGBOTJND Versus ( _HJST-PALACE AND PRISON .
> Iw Are We Better Than We Were In The O...
> iw Are we better than we were in the olden time , and by how
much ? Of the general advance of education , there is neither doubt nor question ; but it is also certain , that the national improvement
in morality and good feeling is by no means proportionate to the increase of knowledge . Of that improvement a good indication is
given in the change of recreations of all ranks ; and while we find , in the two extremes of society , little ground for self-gratulation
, we have cause for thankfulness that the middle classes , of which the great bulk of the nation is composed , afford sensible evidence
of progress , moral as well as intellctual . It is of the least educated classes we mean to speak ; of their opportunities of acquiring
good or evil habits , their temptations , their vices and sufferings ; and the means by which these last may be diminished by the many and
increasing sources of instruction , rational recreation , and refinement , devised for them by . those who have been raised , by Providence , a
degree above them in the social scale .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 306, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/18/
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