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This book is one that ought to warn superficial students that they must labour, that the Art of Sculpture is so difficult and exacting in demands of accuracy as well as of good taste, that before entering in her fields, it may be well to remember that ancient saying in a very wise Book not sufficiently studied, Take off thy shoes from off thy feet, the ground on which thou standest is holy ground.
It is as if Professor Lanteri had that motto before his mind when he prepared these pages of words and illustrations. He has approached his subject seriously, religiously, as a teacher and as a workman; his readers must read, mark, learn, in the same spirit of reverence for the Art of which Lanteri is so distinguished an ornament.
Though I am a painter by trade, as colloquialism would express it, the other great sister Arts, Architecture and Sculp ture, have, from my boyhood, in a measure, run alongside of my craftsmanship as a painter; had this not been so, I should not have ventured to use my pen on this occasion.
I know the difficulties, I know the charms, I know the mazes into which the mysterious spirit of Form may lead or mislead.
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