The National tribune., 1897-08-19

suggestive of the prominence of the United
States i'll electrical invention.
PORTRAITS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE.
1t is said that the artist, Mr.. Blashfield,
has worked into some OF his figures the por-
traits of representative persons. Thus,
Abraham Lincoln's fare and figure typify
America; Mary Anderson, the great Ameri-
can artist, now Mrs. Navarro, the Middle
Ages, and Ellen Terry, the artist, England.
The grand pavilionswhich, as has been said,
form the corners anda entrance halls OF the
Library, are connected by long galleries.
the rooms of the second story being chiefly
designed for the exhibition of works OF art
and books and manuscripts of rare or excep-
tional interest. One room will be filled with
collection of the earliest printed books,
illustrative of the development of the printer s
art; another to books devoted to the early
history of America The north gallery will
be devoted to display of maps, and the
south to display of engravings, Autographs,
etchings, photographs, and so on, showing
the development of illustrative art The
decorations are of greatvariety; the side walls
In rich, plain colors with deep friezes, dis
| playing effective decorative designs.
In one of the lower galleries Kenyon Cox,
SUI Va 4hdJ.- ptH. D. IL. SOA, CA-Sfo'oihoi va
Ohio, has two beautiful groups, the one on the
north side representative of The Arts, and the
! one on the south side of The Sciences. The
| space covered by the artist with each COM
! position is "a feet in length and nine and a
half in hight. The elegant and beautiful
| figures, with their chaste classic drapery and
exquisite coloring, are expressive of the high
| est art
In the Arts, Poetry is the central figure,
| represented by a laurel crowned Muse bear
ing an antique Tyre; her eyes are lifted up
ward. as if to catch heavenly inspiration and
her lips are parted in song. Architecture
| and Music Sculpture and Painting, are
| grouped on either side of her.
Astronomy is the central figure Of the
| Sciences She holds pair of compasses to
measure the world held up by genius in
| front of her. Physics and Mathematics are
grouped on either side
Over the doors and windows of this gallery
are the names distinguished in art and
science, as Wagner, Mozart Homer, Milton,
Raphael Reubens, Vitruvus Mansard,
Phidias and Michael Angelo in art, and Leib-
| nitz, Calico, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Dalton,
Hipparchus, Herschel, Kepler, La Mark and
Helmholtz in science.
In every gallery are innumerable names OF
the great men of all ages In the Print Room
are the signers of the Declaration of indie
pendence; in the southeast gallery, the in
ventors; in the northeast gallery, the archi-
tects and engineers in the map gallery, a
miscellaneous list, including physicians, theo-
logians jurists, scientists, sculptors, painters
and musicians
There is Pavilion of DISCOVERIES, the
| central groups symbolic Of the seasons, the
| same theme running through two other pa
| vilions. There are also figures symbolic of
Courage, Valor, Fortitude and Achievement;
armed figures ready for combat on land and
sea are manifold. Adventure is in the 10th
century garb, and there is the old Viking
with his battleax, the pirate and the bucca-
neer
THE PAyILIONS.
There is a Pavilion of the Elements male
figures representing earth and fire, and female
figures representing air and water These
| are surrounded by categorical and mythology
cal figures and emblems innumerable.
The Pavilion of the Seals has gilded walls.
ornamented with laurel bands, with the
great seal of the United States in the domed
ceiling, and the seals of the Executive De-
partments of the United States running
around the walls Numerous patriotic in
scriptions are upon the tablets, such as
THANK God, | also am an American" by
Daniel Webster, and 'tLet us have peace -
by u. S. Grant.
The northwest gallery is decorated at one