The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-06

has been able 10 spend on objects for tie
museum up to nearly S2t.00o. until now.
adm for some years past. the collection
has quite outgrown the narrow quarters
assigned to it in one of the galleries OF
the Peabody Museum Accordingly, III
1899, Mr. Schff offered to give $23,0V0 for a
building provided much more We're Sc
cured from other sources. When nearly
$4,000 had been raised III accordance with
these terms, Mr.. Schiff announced that he
would give the entire $4,000 for the new
building If the other donors were Wiling,
as it proved they were, that their sub
scriptions should go to the increase OF t.ie
collection. Later, when the plans OF the
new museum were submitted by the
architect. Mr.. y. W. Longfeiow, OF Bos-
ton. Mr. Schiff further increased his git
to $50 O00 to cover the estimate OF the
contractors 1t is hoped that the building
may be ready for occupancy some tlin@
this year 1t will be three stories IN
height with connodious lecture rooms
and a library for the Semitic department
on the round floor. and the eNhiott'oh
halls on the second and third
GREATEST IN THE WORLD.
The $50 900 available for the purchase OF
further material should make the semitic
7rI1snIr, 1he most important Biblical cox
lection-for so in the main one must con
slider tin this country. and one OF tht
most interesting and instructive III 1ne
world AS has been said, the ann IS ~
make it of the widest usefulness TO blpii-
cal and Semitic students everywhere. pc
sida- lis 1,sa TO the students in the college
nronnr and in the Graduate School II Is
SITUATED, it may be noted. in the lmfne-
diate vicinity of the Harvard DlNilHtS
School. and within short distance also
of the Episcopal Theological School Ia
Cambridge: while in Boston ana us SUD
Is. Of
dist. Universalist, Baptist, and tatholie
Churches.
Besides this availability for professional
rse. so 70 speak it is hoped to offer from
time to time TO the public. especially
teachers in Sunday-schooi ana blpie
classes, courses of lectures on Biblical
and Semitic subjects. to be directly Illus
trated by the collections III the museum
The wear before last, for example,
course was given by various specialists,
which treated, with this constant refer
ence TO objects in the museum, such SUD
iects as the vegetation OF Palestine, past
and present: Palestine under the Greeks,
the Romans and the MoSlemS: the rhysl-
cal features of Palestine, the birds of
Palestine, and life in Palestine at the
present tay AS has been we'll said. for
the general student of the Bible. such q
collection has the same kind OF value that
those in the Old State-tIouse and OLD
South GieetinS-tloUSe in Boston nave ipr
the students OF American history 1t IL
illustrates the Biblical narrative and deep
! ems the interest in the book by making
! the record more real and intei!istbie
IMPOSING MONUMENTS
The most imposing monuments in the
museum art. TO be found. OF course. in the
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS section. Here 1t great
] collection OF casts is being gathered irom
! sculptures in the Louvre, the British Mtt-
scum and other important European MT
: seums. The collection. OF casts from the
| British Museum is already rsmarkab!e
comprising as il does some 1a0 or more
| monuments OF the great -Assyrian rulers.
from the time of .AssurnaZirpai, ssh &. e,
| TO AssurbaniDaI (Sardauapalusi, 6J3 b e.
! There is but little distinction. TO be sure
| in the faces OF these Eaonarchs, but there
! 5 much variety in the gradual changes OF
costume. The splendid .tsSyfian animal
! sculptures, particularly in the time OF SAT-
lanapalus. when AsSyrldH art reached It's
l height are well represented. All OF the
best of the British Museum sculptures
, that have Oeeen moulded have been pro-
cured and it is intended TO secure the
others so far as moulds can DE made with
out danger to the originals Many Were
exposed TO the flames in the burning OF
the palaces of the Assyriaa kings. and. as
| a result OF the heat to which they were
| then subjected, the aiaoaster % which
| they are made is too hrittJs 10 make
! moultis from without danger. OF these,
! most of which are kept under glass photo
, graphs will be made But collecting as it
| will casts and photographs from all the
! great museums abroad. the Harvard mu-
| scum should in time possess the most rep
! rssentatIve collection OF objects OF Baby
| lonian-Assyriau sculptures ever brought
/ together
! Other OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES material are
| casts of the most famous inscriptions.
! and many original clay books. about eco
| in ALL some dating back to 20o 3. c.. the
! time of Abraham. others to the time OF
| Nebuchadnezzar. CYRUS. Darius. and their
| successors on the Persian throne. and re-
yealing to modern scholarship all phases
j of public or private ald social hfe-law
suits. dowries loans, or sae annals OF the
!, kings themselves. The collection In
clrdes, also a large number OF seals. cylin-