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See how well I can do it! and invent difficulties for the sake of triumphantly resolving them, becoming a virtuoso rather than a creator. Of the meaner temptation of mere sensationalism--the desire to attract attention by ugliness and eccentricity lest one should be unable to secure it by truth and beauty--one need not speak. It is the temptation of vulgar souls. But great and true artists have yielded, occasionally or habitually, to these other two; Saint-Gaudens never does. I know no work of his to which raw nature has been admitted, in which a piece of study has been allowed to remain as such without the moulding touch of art to subdue it to its place; and I know only one which has any spice of bravura--the Logan statue--and the bravura is there because the subject seemed to demand it, not because the artist wished it. The dash and glitter are those of
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Black Jack Logan,