as no man and woman have done in sculpture since sculpture began.... Here is sculpture in its essence.... You may read into it as much literature as you please, or as you can; but the interpolation is not Rodin's, but your own.... It is not literature in relief, nor literature in the round; it is sculpture pure and simple.... Passion is with him wholly a matter of form and surface and line, and exists not apart from these.... He is our Michael Angelo; and if he had not been that, he might have been our Donatello. And with Phidias and Lysippus all these some-and-twenty centuries afar, what more is left to say of the man of genius whose art is theirs?" We see that Henley's admiration returns to the comparison of Michael Angelo and Rodin. I persist in thinking that the resemblance rather lies in moral identity, in conception than in technicalities. The muscular enlargement of the Italian hero is not Rodin's amplification nor his expressiveness, _which is altogether nervous._ It is none the less true that these two men are the only ones who have imagined and realised a sculpturesque conception of so vast a reach. Not even Puget and Rude, who came between them, ventured such wholes as _The Tomb of the Medici_ or _The Gate of Hell._ MUSEUMS Rodin has in the Luxembourg Museum (Paris) the following works:-- _The Age of Brass,_ originally placed in the Luxembourg Gardens near the School of Mines. _The Danaid_ (marble). _Thought_ (marble). _St. John the Baptist Preaching_ (bronze). _The Fair Helmet-maker_ (bronze). Bust of _Jean Paul Laurens_ (bronze). _The Kiss_ (marble). Bust of _Mme. V._ (marble). At the Petit Palais (Ville de Paris), one work. At Beziers, Cognac, Dijon, Douai, Lille, and Lyons, several works. At Brussels, one work. At Copenhagen, several works. At New York, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia, works. At Helsingfors, one work. At Rotterdam, one work. At Geneva (Rath Museum), three works. At Venice, Christiania, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Düsseldorf, Munich, Weimar, Vienna, Prague (town hall), one work in each town. At Hamburg, three works. At Hagen, three works. At Berlin (new gallery of Charlottenburg), five works. At Crefeld, two works. At Buda-Pest, five works. In London (Victoria and Albert Museum), two works; (British Museum), one work. At Glasgow, one work. Museum of Marseilles, _The Inner Voice_ (clay). The new works in these various museums are originals or casts. PRIVATE COLLECTIONS M. Vever (_Eve,_ in marble). M. Pontremoli (the _National Defence._) M. Antony Roux (_The Kiss_). M. Roger Marx (bust, _The Young Mother_). M. Blanc (_The Eternal Idol._) M. Desmarais (the _Idyll._) Mme. Durand (_Thought_, in marble, given to the Luxembourg). M. Peytel (various groups). Mme. Russell (_Minerva._) M. Fenaille (_The Spring, Bust of Mme. F., The Poet and the Life of Contemplation,_ a twisted column with figures, surmounted by a mask). Baron Vitta (high-reliefs in stone).