VENUS, To the Venus de Melos

....An authorized translation of Rodin's rhapsody Venus (to the Venus of Melos), by Dorothy Dudley, with pictures of the Venus and the sculptor, bears the imprint of B. W. Huebsch.

Here Rodin pays tribute to the ancients, who obtained:

"by a minimum of gesture, by their modelling, both the individual character and the grace borrowed from grandeur that relates the human form to the forms of the universal life... Admiration overtakes me like sleep."