in his walks, and in the evenings cheered him with music, of which he was passionately fond. A most touching instance of filial and paternal love!
THE GENIUS OF BANKS
As Banks never received anything like the encouragement
which he deserved, the character of
his genius must be sought more in the works that
he sketched, than those that he executed in marble.
Among his sketches, the poetical abounded, and
these were founded chiefly on Homer. Several
splendid sketches are his Andromache lamenting
with her handmaidens over the body of Hector, the
Venus rising from the Sea, shedding back her tresses
as she ascends, and a Venus bearing Æneas
wounded from the Battle. "In his classical sketches,"
says Cunningham, "the man fully comes out:
we see that he had surrendered his whole soul to
those happier days of sculpture when the human
frame was unshackled and free, and the dresses as
well as deeds of men were heroic; that the bearing
of gods was familiar to his dreams; and that it was
not his fault if he aspired in vain to be the classic
sculptor of his age and nation." His monument to
the only daughter of Sir Brooke Boothby, now in
Ashbourne church, Derbyshire, represents the child
when six years old, lying asleep on her couch in all
her innocence and beauty. "Simplicity and elegance,"
says Dr. Mavor, "appear in the workman-
