The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-16

style that may De seen dnyWnefe m richness of material and beauty of de- sign, except possibly rooms at Versail- les and Potsdam. It was never excell- ed in the time of the artistic French monarch himself. The cost of finishing the room and installing the collections was S55.000
 In the center of this apartment, dis played in fifteen cases, of gilt bronze and plate glass, Is the most notable assemblage of jadss ever made in the world. It has been gathered from many lands from the sales of many collections, and contains more than 1000 specimens, ancient and modern. in the natural state, and sarved, en- graved and jeweled. The central piece, known as the Heard vase, was obtatn- ed by MT. Augustus Heard, Boston tea merchant. in 1860, from the loot carried away from the famous summer palace of the Emperor of China by the French army in the war of 1860. There are several examples of the rare ana beautiful Lettuce Green" jades, which are very costly. and a series Of orna- ments from India, inlaid with ruoies, diamonds, emeralds, and other jewels. The collections represent all the varfe- ties of jade known to mineralogy, ana all the types and styles of workman" ship and carving. It has also the largest piece of jade ever discovered, weighing 4,7i5 pounds.
 This collection begun in 1878, grew in course of time until 1t came 10 De recognized as the most complete as sen1bIage of jade objects in the world surpassing even that in the britisn Museum Tn 1888 MT. Bishop became convinced that its value and importance reouired A comprehensively scientific catalogue. historical and descriptive and. with princely liberality, commits sioned Dr. George F. Kunz to undertake the work under his own supervision with instructions to spare no pains or expense. and to secure the assistance of scientific specialists and artists or the highest standing of competent skill. l. The distribution of the volumes ls limited, as I have already said, 10 i'm portant libraries and museums or art Tn addition to the two copies sent to fha Library of Congress, Washington receives a. third, which will be deposi- | ted in the National Museum New | York gets five copies, which go to the MetronoIitan Museum, the Museum oi Natural History. the Public Library | c,oIumbiS University and the Groliei Club Boston gets three. for the Mu' | scum of Fine Arts, the Public Library l and Harvard University. Phladelpnia | gets two copies, which will be deposl. | ted at the Free Library and Slrare l College. Johns Hopkins anu ,tt T | Enocb Pratt Free Library of Balti' more. the Carnegie Museum of Pitts burg, the Brooklyn Institute or sciehc' | ana Art. Yale, Cornell, Princeton tn' | Trriversitv of California. the UniVersl l tv of Toronto and McGill UniVersitl | of Montreal are also favored
 | Chicago gets three copies. which gc to the Field Museum. the Art institute and the John Crerar Library. Ihe ols other copies in the United States nave haen allotted to the State Library al | AIbany, the State Library at Richmond | tbe Public Libraries at St. Louis anc | St paul the Golden Gate Museum ol 1 San Francisco. and little library which MT. Bishop founded at his ma tive town of Medford. Mass: one copy goes to the National Li'
 brarv of Mexico; eight copies to En' yiand. which will be deposited in th'
 1ritIsh Museum, the South KensingtoI
 Museun. the University of London, th'
 Roditan Library at Oxford, the UniVer'
 sitv Library at Cambridge, the Fltzwii liam Museum at Cambridge, the clty 1T hraries at Birmingham and Manchestel and the libraries of the Universities ol St Andrew, Edinburgh. Glasgow an( |
 Nine copies go to Germany; to tho Universities of Berlin. Munich. Mar burg BresIau and Heidelberg; to th'
 museums of Berlin and Dresden; 10 Ih' Tnnnerial Library of Berlin and the Mn sraIoricaI Institute of Hesse.
 France gets three copies only. whicf 20 to the National Library, the Museum of National History and the Louvre al Paris. Budapest one. One copy IS sent to tn'
 Library of the Vatican. another to siei 4 tor Emmanuel Library at Rome, ano single copies go to the National Libra
 rv at Florence. the royal libraries al | Madrid. Copenhagen and Brussels. anc l 10 the Imperial Museum of Tokio.
 Three copies go to St. Petersburg; tt the Imperial Library, the hbrary or th' l Winter Palace. and that of the Berl
 Academic. The University of Warsaw
 Is also remembered.
 Tn addition to his jades. Mir, Bishol
 presented to the Metropolitan Museum 1 several other collections of gerat value
 Among them are remark kable specimens ! dra1on nine feet long, as flexible as | living reptile; and, by way of contrast | a skeleton of a man no larger than tn little finger yet containing a represen
 tation of every bone in the body ant | every Joint. The Holsters, fish an'
 other objects of the same materlai max
 . collection that stands unrivaled in th
 Trnited states. There is also grea | disn1av of cloisonne channels; a larg | oojIscfjon of carved worries. many O
 them old and wrought with that artis
 tic intracy of detail attained only b | inc orientals; an extensive series O
 facouers. carved woods, porceIains an I nd v. a