PERCY ANECDOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 14, 1 June 1872, Page 2

PERCY ANECDOTES.

The Gakland Twinicf. —Pausias, the celebrated painter of fciicyou, in his youth became enamoured ■with a beautiful female of the name of Glyccra, wJio had a singularly elegant taste in the arrangement of flowers into ehaplets. Pausias, paiuting after nature, and his uustress,Jtfeqaine highly distinguished for his skill as a painter of (lowers. The last ell'ort of his pencil was a picture of (Jlycera herself, seated, and in the act of arranging a chaplet. A production, in the creation of which love, genius, and grafcitudo equally assisted, necessarily became a master-piece ;, it was. called the "Garland Twiner," a copy of it sold for no less a, sum than two talents. Painting, from J^atuke; —Eupompus, the painter was as-ked by Lysifipxis, the sculptor, whom among his predecessors lie should make the object of his. imitation? "Behold," said the painter, showing his friend a multitude of characters passing by,, " behold my models. From nature,, not from art,, by whomsoever wrought, must the artisi labour,, who hopes to attain honour and Bxteml the boundaries of his art," — Praxiteles, who flourished 3(54 years before Christ, was the sculptor of some of theroost famous staiuea of antiquity.. Among these, were two V onuses, one clothed and the other naked. The lirs.t was purchased by the Khoans, who preiorml ifc as the must decent.. Th.eOnidiaus took the .ejected one, which was so exquisitely beautiful, that may per eons took a voyage to Cnidus for the solo purpose ot seeing it. iSicodemes, King of. i'-yntiria, was so desirous, of possessing it thivt he "liered to p;iy all the public debts of Cnidus, which' wuc large, as the price ; bub the citizens refused to part wilh it, on any turins, regarding it as theglory ot the .st.-'le. fraxifciles having promised the choice of his works to Phyrne, a lady to whom ho was attached, she, in. order to discovcrwliich he most valued, ran to.him. one day with the false intelligence that his house was on fire. "i am undone," he cried, " unless I. save my Satyr and my Cupid." The lady having thus obtained an, indisputable criterion, chose the Cupid as. the most, valuable of all his performances. v