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have practiced sculpture in their regular course of study [[crossed-out]] can? [[crossed-out]] sometimes  displayed extraordinary excellence in that branch of art. 
[Then follow 2 pp of material similar to what we've seen in crayon. Next, Byron's poem "The Dying Gladiator" - ReP says students of sculpture hard-pressed to see in the orig. statue what Byron saw.]
Bottom p. 10: "These expensive verses would have been real poetry if it had been possible for the sculpture to be worthy of them."
"In the early days of pntg, few books were written to make known any of the principles of the art, & therefore whenever a youth manifested a genius for the Beautiful Art, it was a favor not easily purchased to be received in the sanctuary of the heaven-lighted studies & learn something ^then called the art of mystery of pntg. So our times, without comparing their advantages w/those of the golden days of Italy, the art of pntg is much more extensively practiced & most of. the pntrs & its mysteries have been promulgated by books & in the schools of artists so that few possess any technical knowledge that is confined to their own practice. Still, it is true that this art continues to be of the nice observance, multitudinous in its operation, & difficult to explain even to the constant & attentive student who strives to

(Corner left Column)Pntgs beat sculptors

(??)I believe thus whole sculpture section is just an oblique way to make copies more honorable.

Hard times for carry pntrs

Easier (??) for prtrs our still don explain