| PAGE |
| Preface | [v] |
| Note | [xv] |
| CHAPTER | |
| I | Mrs. Patience Wright Speaks the Prologue | [3] |
| II | Our Blithe Beginning Days | [29] |
| III | Of Three Leaders, and of Moral Earnestness in Art | [47] |
| John Quincy Adams Ward | [57] |
| Augustus Saint-Gaudens | [67] |
| Daniel Chester French | [76] |
| IV | Of Expositions and Collaborations | [87] |
| V | The Statue and the Bust and the Ideal Figure | [101] |
| VI | Our Equestrian Statues | [125] |
| VII | The Art of Relief, High and Low | [145] |
| VIII | Of Garden Sculpture and Ornament | [159] |
| IX | Of Small Bronzes and Great Crafts | [177] |
| X | The National Sculpture Society | [191] |
| XI | Influences, Going and Coming | [213] |