text:  Is it a fine work?" "I have no hesitation " replied the critic "with a perfect recollection of Canova's Venus and even Moggs's Pandean Piper which I reviewed in last number of the _Universal_ in declaring that Stickleback's work (it is a female not a jack-ass) is the noblest effort of the English chisel; there is life about it--a power--a feeling--a sentiment--it is overwhelming! I shall express these ideas in print