Excerpt from The Wellesley Prelude, Vol. 1: October 12, 1889 The echo in the Lecture Room was not the only feature of the new Art Building and its contents that called forth from Tim expressions of appreciation and admiration. On being shown into the gallery contain ing the casts which were being retouched and repaired by an Italian, Tim remarked, That Italian is a smart feller, and has a good paying business. I suppose he will be after putting heads on them women, the ladies in question being those who gracefully reclined in the pediment of the Parthenon. The bust of young Bacchus with his Chaplet of grape-vine and drooping head aroused his sympathy, because that feller looks sad like, now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.