Excerpt from The Studio, Vol. 35: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, 1905 Constantin M eunicr is bar excellence, the painter, and above all the sculptor of the working-man. Without being guided by any systematic considera tions of literature or of politics, but led by an instinct as potent as it was simple, he was the first to perceive new elements of beauty in the deeper strata of popular life, and he saw that it was his business to make this known. The (art of Meunier is a sincere expression of beautiful pity or of compassionate beauty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.