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of living softened & cadenced by reason.
Passing onwards & upwards to Escalier Daru rests the Victory of Samothrace without head or arm but yet of arresting workmanship – clothed in fine linen & not in heavy wrappings – Her marvellous body was not designed for daily tasks but was of the gods – a beauty that was in itself an ideal. Her movements though vigorous were always harmoniously balanced
This the best somewhat dimmed the undoubted beauty of latter] works but one in special took my fancy [Deane by Houdin] a light & almost living figure in bronze another was the Young Neapolitan [Teisher] by Rude a child with laughing face playing with a tortoise.
All the picture were not yet in their place Titian & the [indecipherable] school are missing But Van Eyck, Rembrandt & who can write of the play of light & shade that the master has shown in the two philosophers. Alone in the centre of a room stands Mona Lisa with her mystic smile of ever bewildering fascination.
In one of the [indecipherable] by itself is a small statute not 3 ft high of a young boy called L'Ephebe