ETERNAL SPRING (photogravure) _Frontispiece_ THE AGE OF BRASS THE AGE OF BRASS ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PREACHING EVE SKETCH FOR THE MONUMENT TO THE DEFENDERS OF THE NATION UGOLINO AND HIS CHILDREN BELLONA BELLONA VICTOR HUGO (dry-point) VICTOR HUGO (dry-point) BUST OF VICTOR HUGO MONUMENT TO VICTOR HUGO (fragment) VICTOR HUGO (fragment) NEREIDS (group at base of the Victor Hugo monument) SHADES (for the top of _The Gate of Hell_) THE THINKER DANAID DANAID THOUGHT THE FAIR HELMET-MAKER A NYMPH (bronze) PUVIS DE CHAVANNES JEAN PAUL LAURENS BUST OF MADAME V. THE BURGHERS OF CALAIS A BURGHER OF CALAIS A BURGHER OF CALAIS A BURGHER OF CALAIS BALZAC BALZAC PRIMITIVE MAN YOUNG WOMAN BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL COUNSEL IRIS NUDE STUDY AUGUSTE RODIN CORNER OF RODIN'S STUDIO AT MEUDON CORNER OF RODIN'S STUDIO AT MEUDON STUDY IN BRONZE FOR THE "BALZAC" NUDE FIGURE (photographed in the open air, at twilight, in the garden in Meudon) AUGUSTE RODIN I YOUTH AND EARLY WORK OF RODIN--HIS FIRST ATTEMPTS; HIS TIME AT CARRIER'S--HIS STAY IN BRUSSELS AND WORK THERE--"THE AGE OF BRASS" AT THE SALON OF 1877; THE INCIDENT ARISING IN REGARD TO IT--THE "ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST"; BEGINNING OF RODIN'S REPUTATION Auguste Rodin was born in Paris, in the Val de Grâce quarter, on the 14th of November, 1840, of a family of humble employés. The child at first attended a day-school in the Rue Saint Jacques, then went to a boarding-school at Beauvais, kept by his uncle. At fourteen he returned to Paris and entered the school of art in the Rue de l'École de Médecine. A period of desperate industry at once set in for him.