. THE BUST OF MENA>rDi:i; P- l;ii--Tii.\- jirSEUM (). {Reproduced, by kind perinisswu uj Urn. , from " Greek and Roman Portraits," by Ajiton Hekler.) loose boots, slippers, sandals. Say what your heart desires. Lady. How much do you want for the pair you took up first ? Don't name too ' thundering ' a price. Shoemaker [after some voluble protestations). Three pounds ten, madam, not a farthing ; It is a high price, even for the extravagant lady; but after haggling, she buys some shoes, and the woman who introduced the customers is promised a pair as comm
. THE BUST OF MENA>rDi:i; P- l;ii--Tii.\- jirSEUM (). {Reproduced, by kind perinisswu uj Urn. , from " Greek and Roman Portraits," by Ajiton Hekler.) loose boots, slippers, sandals. Say what your heart desires. Lady. How much do you want for the pair you took up first ? Don't name too ' thundering ' a price. Shoemaker [after some voluble protestations). Three pounds ten, madam, not a farthing ; It is a high price, even for the extravagant lady; but after haggling, she buys some shoes, and the woman who introduced the customers is promised a pair as commission for herself. A vase-painting has been preserved of such a scene, a lady visiting a shoe- maker and being measured. But in two of the pieces the figures are of a coarser and lower type, and in one of them the moral corruption inherent in ancient slavery appears very plainly. Among male characters we read of pugilists, garotters, gamblers, or seafaring men ashore for a carouse. The streets of the town are narrow, with mud up to the knees, like a Turkish town of the present day. The language put into the mouth of these people is that of common life, colloquial, full of vulgarisms, slang, and proverbs. The author is a " Reahst " to the core, and has been well called the Teniers of Greek literature. His most entertaining piece is entitled The Schoolmaster; the characters in it are a truant boy, his angry mother, and a schoolmaster, on whom she is paying a parental visit. Her com- plaint is that her boy will not attend school, but prefers disreputable company, such as porters and runaway slaves, with whom he plays pitch-and-toss. Even when his father helps him to write from dictation, he will have none of it ; and if he is scolded, he runs away to his grandmother's, or climbs up on to the roof and sits there like a monkey, and breaks the tiles, for which his parents have to pay. In short, he is an imp of mischief, and the neighbours put everything down to him. The sc
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