persistence of Gallé and Roger Marx, however, convinced the people of Nancy, who are now very proud of their monument. The horses and the Apollo are the most living, palpitating, and lyrical things that Rodin has produced. [Illustration: PUVIS DE CHAVANNES] [Illustration: JEAN-PAUL LAURENS] In 1893 Rodin made the bust of Madame _Séverine,_ the medallion of _César Franck,_ and several works in marble; _Galatea, The Death of Adonis, The Education of Achilles,_ and _The Wave._ From 1894 date the _Eternal Spring,_ one of his tenderest and purest works, besides an _Orpheus and Eurydice,_ an _Adonis and Venus,_ and finally _Christ and the Magdalen._ For, by degrees, he was returning to religious and mythological subjects, after having expressed only general symbols or pieces of pure realism; and I shall have to call attention at a later point to the original manner in which Rodin was bold enough to interpret these subjects which the academic classicism seemed to have worn out and left insipid for ever. The year 1895 at last beheld the inauguration, on the 3rd of June, of _The Burghers of Calais_ at Calais. To the same year belongs another fine work in marble: _Illusion, the Daughter of Icarus,_ besides a vigorous bronze, _The Crouching Man,_ a medallion of _Octave Mirbeau,_ and--at this early date--some nude studies for the _Balzac,_ for the _Balzac_ was studied minutely in the nude, a point of which many people know nothing, before appearing draped in the famous dressing-gown which was destined, in 1898, to arouse so much clamour. [Illustration: BUST OF MADAME V.] The _Burghers_ were set up, by subscription, in a square in Calais.[4]