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order to destroy all ideas of sensuality but it may be carried too far & the plumpness of form give way to scrawniness. The back of the figure I think much superior to the front & all the views in that position are very fine - The expression and "feeling" of the whole figure with the exceptions I have crossed out - remarked noticed is remarkably delicate & refined. - The bust of Judge Barnet is at the house of that gentleman where I saw the original & the bust. It is a remarkably fine head full of dignity and truthfulness - The utmost detail is developed without destroying? the masses? or expression. Every form is beautifully made out & the effect of flesh and hair is admirable - It seems humanity turned to stone - & possesses none of the hardness usually seen in marble works. This is particularly remarkable in the modelling of the mouths of Power's statues which resemble more a cast from the life than a stone. The Art Union Room & the Artists' Union rooms contain many creditable specimens of native as well a foreign talent - The artists