The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1854-07-22

some rugged rock bubbling with the clear
est and purcst spring Of water. Even so does
the ethereal structure rise up in our dearth
of national architecture like new inspira-
ton, noble aspiration. 1t is a building
more open to heaven than the gloomy Cathe-
dral. 1t is house for the Spirit of Light
1t looks up in the face of Nature and VIC:
comes the seasons with smile. 1t will PLAY
with the !ightninss unscathed. 1t is filled
with the voice of music and the fragrance of
flowers. and its lofty beauty is hung round
with the heavens as with ramcnt. This
palace-crystal is magic mirror which re.
veaIs to US the form and lincaments of any
age We choose to summon before us. Just a.
its glowing walls reflect the state of nature
the golden glimmer and ruby bushes of
morning-the smiling sapphire of the noon
tide sky-the pomp of color and gorgeous tu
multi of the western clouds that ring the set
ting sun-the sleeping silver of the moonligh
the darpling shadows o. the floating clouds
and all the thousand changes and shftin:
beauties of the sky-so does it reflect all tn,
lights and shadows that have swept the face
o. our earth. and all the wonder and the clio
rv. the terror and the beauty that have flash
cd in the face. or lcapcd from the heart of
universal humanity. We are, as it were
magnctizcd by its presence: it places the bool
of history in our hands, and like clairvovantc
we read the open secret, as with a clearcr
vision.
What light it throws on the dark places of
the past What a breath of lif, it breathe
into the old valleys Of dry bones. Here W,
find gathered together the work Of all people
and all times. We can see and study the pc
culiar IhvSiocnomv of the whole bv-conc hu
man experience Nations that are no more
are here rccrcatcd,and we walk the land of
the pharoahs or sun ourselves in the Moorish
spcndors of the Alhambra sit down IN anccn
Athens and thread the mar.lcC Courts ofRomc
We can wander where Sar,lanaraIus live'
his luxurious life. see where that Philia
wrought and Homer sung. and the I>raclitc
suffered Here are the flower, with w!icl
the daughters OF the East have braided thci
hair, and the palms that Swallowed their ,lain
tv limbs. The awful vail of isis is rent i,
twain. and We see Egypt with all her gull
and grandeur; her Clcopa,ralik, voluptu
ou>ncS> her dim so!cmnity and her dark mvs
terry, her colossal architecture, which seem
that the world of that art would have TO b
borne upon its shoulders her enormous an,
m,>>lvc strength. that wrought for rtcr
nifty. and which has It's fitting emblem in th
pyramid. Here is Nincvch. proud, fer cc, an,
cruel; full Of noble majesty. and dcli.htin.
in animal strength Pompciiii. the CITY ofth,
Sea. DESTROYED hv fircha> plrnixcd from tn
ashes "t Ncsu,i;.>. and rises from her ruin
lovely as Ap!lr"litc from the ocean. Sncl
llchtnrss ani brightness. such grace and cai
c'v o. architecture. we shall not find elsewhere
Anl here is the Alhambra Court with is e
lalora'e .ioyonsnc>> and pomp of >plcntlor an,
such an intricate. intcrtwinin. luxuriancc OF
color hurnin" on its royal walls The histo
rv OF art III allits phases is written in this pal
ace. We get glimpse of national life in al
lis mu!titorm manifestations, from the mai,s
tie forms OF the rcmotc>; past, the costly beau
tv of the Middle Ages, to the use and poctr
OF To-day. The opening of this temple o
art Will mark an era in our history 1t su,
plies great want of the timcs-an Art-cd,
cation. Never was it a greater necessity, an
so rich and regal, 4 store of materials calul;
ted to supply our want. You enter it an
YOU leave it with the same conviction that
is the most marvellous thing of art on Go,,
earth
1t also furnishes 4 magnificent illustratio
of the principles Of Cooperation, which mu
not bc lost on the world. So vast an afTa
is the Palace that it will cost some $50 oo
per annum to supply it with all kinds of ne,
essary attendants and labor after the bull,
ing and arrangement are complete. 1t b;
two wings, tha: like two vast arms cmbra,
one of the nohlcst parks and range of car,lcr
IN the world. In the front are open gale
les and broad terraces that slope down Ii
their feet are buric,! in thickets of shrubs an
flowers. Next year those gardens will
musical with fountains and the dreamy yoit
OF many waters. The whole length Of II
new Palace, including wings, will lie upwar
of 1000 feet, covering l29 acres of croun
lis cubic measurement is about 10000, ,oC
feet, being nearly one-fourth larger than Il
size Of lIyde-park Palace, four times Iarc,
than st. Pauls in its cubic contents, and 70
ty times larger than Westminster Haiti
largest hall in Great Britain.
A BOYS LOVE FOR HIS MOTuEr.-Tl
first bit of silver he could call his own. .a,
the Hon. j. I. Buckingham, in his Person
Memoirs" was ninepence the proceeds Of
bunch of bristlcs to brush maker. He ke
1t as pocket piece for years, and then parte
with it to pay the postage of letter to |,
mother. How much is revealed of the hea
10y such trifling anecdotc The afTectit
overcame the vanity or the incipient love {
accumulation, which boyish desires or wan
could not conquer.