memorable little city.

"I see this is your model," said Kenelm; "what they call a /patera/,
and rather a famous one. You are copying it much more truthfully than
I should have supposed it possible to do in substituting basket-work
for bronze. But you observe that much of the beauty of this shallow
bowl depends on the two doves perched on the brim. You can't manage
that ornamental addition."

"Mrs. Lethbridge thought of putting there two little stuffed
canary-birds."

"Did she? Good heavens!" exclaimed Kenelm.

"But somehow," continued Will, "I did not like that, and I made bold
to say so."

"Why did not you do it?"

"Well, I don't know; but I did not think it would be the right thing."

"It would have been very bad taste, and spoiled the effect of your
basket-work; and I'll endeavour to explain why. You see here, in the
next page, a drawing of a very beautiful statue. Of course this
statue is intended to be a representation of nature, but nature
idealized. You don't know the meaning of that hard word, idealized,
and very few people do. But it means the performance of a something
in art according to the idea which a man's mind forms to itself out of
a something in nature. That something in nature must, of course, have
been carefully studied before the man can work out anything in art by