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Show Michael Angelo, at a time when Italy j paid so much attention to ancient art that modem had no cluince of being j judged fairly, bad. it ia said, resort to a! stratagem to teach tho critics the fallacy 1 of shaping their judgments by fashion or repnfcuiou. lie sculptured a statue reprentincr a sleeping hvauty.and break- j ing off an arm bnned it in a place where j eicavauojm wore btMiig made. It was soon found and landed by critics and the public as a valuable relic of antiquity, antiqui-ty, far superior to anything done for centuries. When Angelo thought it had gone far erwugh he produced the broken srm, and. to the grpat mortrflca-' mortrflca-' taou of the critics, roveaJed himself aj j the sculptor. New York Ledger. |