How Statues Are Made

-A respondent of tho London Reader privos the following details reg-arding tli n production of --.tíitiice: " The eulpter( having Jefi'gned a figure, first makes a sketch of it in clay n. few inehes only ia height. When he has satisfïed himself with tho general attitude, a ca.st is taken of h;s skbtch, and frqm it i model in ciay is prepare'! of tho f uil size he designs ior hisstatué, whethér lialf the natural Leigtit, or lifo sizo, or eolossal. The procosa of building tho clny, as it is cal'ed, upoh tha stront iron armaiurc or sketetof) on whieh it stands on itf! podes'a', and tho bending and this armaticrü into tho form of !he íiiiibs, constitutes a work of vast laboi of a pijrejy manual gort, for whose períoriiianfe all artists able to att'ord i!, 8fifp)o' the skilled vvorkmrn to beolitained in Fïomo. The rough clav, rndely asstiming the s'napo of the intènded statuo thtn passes into tho 8co!ptor's hands, and undergoen his most elubirate manipuladora by vvhich it is rediiced (enerHy after tha labor oí' severnl nionths) to the preciso and perfectly finished form he deslres hoijld hereüfter appear in marble. - This done, tho formatore takes a cast of tha whole, and the clay is des'.royeó). Frorn this last piaster castagain in'411 time the mmb'e is hewn by three succsssive workmen. The tirst gives ifc ni'.igh outline, the second b.iogs it by rulo and compasa to close resemblaoce with the cast, ri.Vd tho third iini&bes it ci nrfction "