The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-15
MINNESOTA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 49, 1908.

AUGUST Is, 1903.
modest head little steel hairpns to-day
would do the better.
BY the way, it would you all to two
sketches have made in notebooks not draw at
ALL know, having instruction
such as that the Minneapolis Juniors receiving and
sketches would have to be labeled to anything
body else only began to necessity of having
sketch and then when the British Museum and
my notebooks will be guarded with double in conse-
quence. like make people with but not at
me- as they certainly would if they saw these sketches
Julius Caesar Romans
In little side gallery there unpretentious
marble upon pedestals
and huggng the walls Most quickly thru
glance they something
to and looked and looked again. They busts of
Roman and noted Roman made during their
lives, and the Romans this kind
these busts have been considered enesses the
nals.
You have casts these you likely But
casts the best discovered, very differ
en things from the originals. Many famous
represented here but from Annous the most beautiful
to Nero the most brutal attracts attention
does the likeness julius
who nevertheless refused they
gladly Caesar in this bust, hollow with
high cheek bones sharp lines between eyes,
Roman and true American the lips
realized what the American
is-asde from the twang-until went Holland where
sharp Dutch observer said signs
he could tell American by
nation have frner mouths, wearing" their lips
more compressed And, generally speaking, have found
it
Among all these high degree Caesar is the
only one who mouth character 1t is
handsome face it would any beauty
nevertheless,
aars and one which will draw the again and again
attempt to read the wholly writ
ten there Had been Roman of those Roman days. do
not oeeve should have loved Caesar the but had
been fortunate enough be his soldiers of legion
would have followed fororn hope he set before his
for I should have a plan
hind all movements the best of for apparent
throwing of valuable lives The noticeable fea-
ture about this bust of
tremey small and the shape changes suddenly
Marbles and Marbles More Marbles.
had not intended to say anything about marbles
in the British Museum, because thought might be
especially interested in them. really
bles to with, glorious upon
temples and monuments and tomb during
art in Greecefrom the Parthenon at Athens the Neeid
monument Xanthos, Halicarnosos,
latter, in its time being Of the
world The sculptures from the Parthenon
finest in the world the socalled Elgn
ing been rescued from
by Lord Egin while British They
part of what is left of the groups pedi-
mentsgables they might almost be called together
tons of the frieze and the
weather darkened by time by elements;
not has head and most of them wanting
in hands fingers toes. Yet in
that is marvellous
the what of it, have only able beauty
far, previous experience having given
press what they to could fill columns
in trying to do it, best could
idea of what they They be
their greatness These sculptures from the Parhenon
mos Impressive OF the coiectlon-to me- at least out
the Nereid the dancngs nyphs representing the
breeze have Incompatible grace of their own
tho they are still more agmenary than the marbles from
the Parthenon.
Then Egyptian sculptures that
are SO groesque SO exactly like all the pictures has
but huge altogether inspiring they
fascnae and repen and make first shvering
and then halt at thought Of the history which this
represents. have historic things
and others that felt you,
but greatest personal has been in
sculptures and those in the Pergamun Berlin
pictures and pictures and pictures everywhere.
THE EDITOR