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Show Great 8culptor's Early Struggles. Augustln Rodin, the French sculp-' tor, had a great struggle with poverty! and adverse criticism in bis youth Of an episode of this early jterlod a' writer says: "With that Inflexible will and singleness of purpose ' that never failed him throughout his career, ca-reer, the young sculptor sot himself to express In clay, marble or bronze his conception of life and art. He, usod his leisure In' working at nlght-j time, In a desorted stable ho had j transformed Into a Btudlo, at his won-! derful mask of 'The Man with the,i Broken Noso.' After elghteon months' ot hard and patient labor ho flnlshodj this mnsk and sent It to tho salon. It' took tho hanging commlttoo tourtcon years to dlscovor any merit In th work, for It wns rejected In 1804, and finally accepted only In 1878." j |