The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-07-03

who, through all past time, have
built up her greatness and her
glory. The memory of her en-
perors and her kings receives no
more gracious tribute than that &C.
corded to her philosophers and
scholars, and the men whose hu-
manity and self-sacrifce have earned
an enduring Immortality. Ludovi
Gus Magnus is near to the gentle
Melanchton, and the little Corsican.
captain, who rose to imperial power
and died at last a captive and in
exile, lies guitely beside Pascal,
from whose bed of agony came
forth the nobiest and sublimest
philosophy Of France. In this
grand collection is much of good
and evil. though 1t is evident that
revolution, however deeply seated
in national heart, hnds but a scanty
recognition with those who are
charged to perpetuate her history.
The head Of Foltaire is here, the
man who .sowed the first seeds of
the Revolution, and close to him
Jean Jacques Rousseau, hard, cyni-
cal and cold, whose works to-day
are found in all the shops, and
whose eAfgy in the national gallery
is second only to that of the great
Emperor himself, but tho men of
the Mountain ara nowhere to be
seep, nor Marat nor Robespierre,
nor Barrere, but the noble head
that fell upon the Place de la Con-
corde, on the identical spot now
marked by the great Egyptian
ohelisk, is here enshrined in shining
gold one of the noblest and kind
lest faces to be found in the entire
collection. Next to him ia the
beautiful and naughty face Of his
Queen. Maria Antoinette, and close
to her the lovely Princess Lam
bale. Richelieu's medal bears only
his coat Of arms, but the massive
head Of Mazarin perpetuates the
memory ofone OF the ablest and most
willy statesmen known to the history
Of France. There are three bronze
medals in honor Of Louis.le-G Grand !;
one taken when an infant, another
at the age of fifteen, and the third
after having attained the zenith Of
his glory, he found his power
crumhling into ruin the rival
beauties who ruled his king dom
and his heart have nos been deemed
worthy Of remembrance, but in
their places, are Michel de Hos
pital Lavoisier, Gay-Lussac and
Bernard de Palissy the potter. AS
if in mockery, beside her migrate
full son, is the unfortunate Maria
de Medicis, who died in exile from
France, and near her the head OF
the imperial Catherine, for. whose
pleasure was laid out that beautiful
walk, which skirts the bank of the
Seine to the Tuileries. Parmen-
tier, the benefactor who introduced
the potato into France, has not
been considered unworthy of a
place even in this distinguished
company, but shares with Button,
Corneille and Racine, a portion OF
the national homage. Three faces
lie side by side recalling the saddest
of all sad history, they are the
head of the Emperor Napoleon
crowned with laurel, and the heads
of his two queens Josephine and
Maria Louise beyond is a medal
struck in honor Of the baptism of
the king Of Rome, and still further
on the Grand Seal with which the
sixteenth Louis stamped the abro
cation Of his kingly power, in front
of the Ecole Militaire. All the
coins of France are here as bright,
and as shining as when they were
dropped from the mint, and l know
Of no place in the entire Exhibition
where the scholar can pass a more
profitable hour than in the Exhibit
of the French Bibliotheque.
The sight about the grounds on
these early summer days is parti-
cularly bright and interesting; min
gled with the gay crowds ofpleas
ure seekers, are dashing Greeks in
all the glory Of their national Co.'S
tune, turbaned> Turks, hooded
Bedouins, fresh from the sands OF
the desert filthy Tunisians and
bare legged vagabonds from No.
rocco. I have ceased to wonder OF
late that the Bey of Tunis is a savage
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