The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-08-17

this interesting art, in the present day,
in the modern manufactures Of Ginori,
Cubic, etc. He was equally ready on
each subject, and was like great dictionary
only infinitely more interesting.
Besides these free lectures on art and his
tory, the minister issues monthly bul!e>
tin, to which the superintendent Of museums
sends reports, or notizie, as they are called,
of all that is going on in Italy relating to
these matters. The metropolis Of Corneto-
Tarquini, vast battle-ground sixteen
square miles in extent, holding hun1reds Of
thousands # tomb is men toned q Me only
record of the ancient metropolis of Etrusia,
..the city of the dead furnishing news of
the old city Of the living" The excava>
tions of Palestine, the s.frigidum Praeneste"
Of Horace, also reveal the art of the old
Greek city that fourished before Rome ex>
listed; but again city of the dead, tn
metropolis Of Praneneste, must reveal the
mysteries, the wondrous art Of those ancient
people,
small, bare room has been discovered,
not very far down below the level Of the
soil, in the center of which is grave. The
grave contained many curious, rare and
valuable things, great lance and several
other bronze objects, silver cups, silver
scepter, carved worries, golden tubes, gold
en- nails, and several of those wonderful
delicate leaves of gold plate, more beautiful
tnan mas ever been found, although of the
same type as the Barberini orr. One of
these gold famine is seventeen centimetres
about seven inches long and ten centime.
tres about four inches broad; it is ex.
quisitely ornamented with heads of animals
nd fh At t,rIn Late
Greeks There is also great gold cup,
worked inside rilieut, and outside with
grotii, in the style of the famous come in
the collection of Slgnor Alessandro Castel~
LAM, Rome. On the brim of this remark
able cup is great serpent that encircles it.
The outside concentrations are divided into
three zones, and represent various subjects
mountains and trees, with a hare and a
stag In full run; al open-mounted mask at
the foot of a rock, as a fountain; flaming
altar, above which falcon flies in high air:
another altar and priest with vase; palm
trees; servants feeding horses; a hunting
scene; a city with two towers and gate,
out OF which come men driving three bighe,
a chariot and two horses] a combat with
savages, who look Ike ourang- outranps.
A"N'N 20 AAo"ioc Solu vase among these
beautiful things, Oriental in form; it has
SIX serpents' heads on the brim and qrafiti
outside, which are of the same style as those
on the cup: they represent cavaliers ON
horseback, stays, mountains, trees, oxen
anu horses pasturing peacefully on rich
plain, with birds soaring in the air. There
is gold challce, smooth surface, with
handles that are held down by little,
crouchng, maleswinged figure, worked in
iiigree. fourth gold cup is perfectly
plain and there is also a blue-glass Gun.
But there are no remains of the Greek war
rior who was buried there ages ago-not
bone. The poor body that was surround
Ell by all these luxurious and splendid OBJ
Jecfs, whose form was ornamented with the
gold fanasne, has crumbled away and left not
even dust
These beautiful things of date SO an
cient may well suggest questions of ..lost
arts"