. Reminiscences of William Wetmore Story, the American sculptor and author; being incidents and anecdotes chronologically arranged, together with an account of his association with famous people and his principal works in literature and sculpture . and the Ring, a FiresidePantomime for Great and Small Children, was saidto have been written by Thackeray for Mr. Storyslittle daughter Edith and read to her chapter bychapter. Other great men have been entertained by theStorys, but none, perhaps, ever entered into theirsympathies more than did this warm-hearted andhonored friend. I02 REMINISCENCES
. Reminiscences of William Wetmore Story, the American sculptor and author; being incidents and anecdotes chronologically arranged, together with an account of his association with famous people and his principal works in literature and sculpture . and the Ring, a FiresidePantomime for Great and Small Children, was saidto have been written by Thackeray for Mr. Storyslittle daughter Edith and read to her chapter bychapter. Other great men have been entertained by theStorys, but none, perhaps, ever entered into theirsympathies more than did this warm-hearted andhonored friend. I02 REMINISCENCES OF W. W. STORY. A Memory of Mr. Story, by Mrs. LewWallace, tells us that at his table MargaretFuller led her hearers captive. There Hawthorne— poet, though he made no rhymes — was be-guiled into society. Later on, Miss Harriet Hosmer lived in theHotel dltalia, in a cozy little room which gavea glimpse of the blue Italian sky and overlookedthe Barberini Gardens. Miss Hosmer hadselected this room because it made her feel closeto her dear friends, the Storys, whose home was asecond home to her, and where she was one of themost privileged guests admitted to their privateparlor — or their boudoir rather — which theycalled Little h AsroF. XVI. The Sculptors First and Second Studios IN Rome. (1851.) Let us turn from these charming scenes ofhis home-life to the sculptors work-a-day world,his studio, where the idealizations of his heartand brain were materialized into bronze andmarble. Mr. Storys first studio in Rome was locatedon the Via Sistina, which runs from the PiazzaBarberini to San Trinita di Monti, giving fromthe head of the Spanish Steps a view of thewhole Leonine City, crowned by St. Peters did not long remain there, but removed toVia San Nicolo di Tolentino, which opened fromthe Piazza Barberini through the new quartersof Rome. It was in the Tolentino studio that Hawthorneknew and visited him, the two chatting awaymany an hour together, Mr
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