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70 He presented to her the pattern of a human foot and some simple materials with which to try her hand, saying, "Go home and make that; if there is anything in you it wnll come out." She tried once and had to "try again," but after all succeeded admirably. Encouraged by this victory, she pushed her way on and on until she has been recognized and honored throughout a large part of the civilized world by those who admire the beauties of the work of an artful hand. Some of her works are "Hagar in the Wilderness," "Madonna with the Infant Christ and Two Adoring Angels," "Forever Free," "Hiawatha's Wooings," "Longfellow, the Poet," "John Brown," "Wendell Phillips." These, with her honored reception in Rome and the attractions which her studio had for the travelers from all parts of the world, all speak in no uncertain tones of her real merits as an artist and sculptress.