The daily papers have published a, good assorted bunch - of
opinions, authoritative and otherwise, on Mr. Epstein's "Behold the Man." I say authoritative, ,but I hardly know, after all, who possesses any special authority to interpret Mr. Epstein. At any rate, the ordinary man has as much right as anyone to go and see and express his view. It was as a very ordinary man* that I went myself: I went ready to be impressed. I looked at that t iwering block of stone -in its .too circum- scribed setting from every angle. I gave myself reason- able time for its qualities to make their appeal.- I saw from first to last only a repulsive mass Of shapeless hideousness. Mr.. Epstein, in my judgement, has carved' a gargoyle and called it Christ. But I know that some' people can see in it all the law and the prophets and the gospels as well.
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