symbolic decorations. Trophy medallions in the six domes represent: The Drama (masks), Music (lyre), Sculpture (carved figure), Literature (lamp and book), Architecture (a column capital), Painting (palette and brush). Architecture is represented by the names in gold. Roman and the Colosseum, Agra (India) and the Taj Mahal, Athens and the Parthenon, Gizeh and the Pyramids. For Sculpture are named the Farnese Bull, Laocoön, Niobe, Parthenon Pediment; Venus, Apollo, Zeus, Hercules.

Minerva-By Elihu Vedder. From the east corridor a stairway ascends to the balcony of the reading room; on the wall of the landing is Elihu Vedder's

mosaic of Minerva, the Goddess of Wisdom. She displays a scroll upon which is inscribed a list of the Sciences, Arts and Letters. She carries her spear; upon her breast is the ægis, with its Gorgon's head, plates of steel, and border of twisted serpents; and at her feet lie helmet and shield. On her right is the owl; on her left a statuette of Niké, the Winged Victory of the Greeks, standing upon a globe, and extending the wreath of victory and the palm branch of peace. The background shows a fair stretching landscape, and the sun of prosperity sheds its effulgence over all. The enrollment on the scroll reads: Agricultural, Education, Mechanics, Commerce, Government, History, Astronomy, Geography, Statistics, Economics, Sculpture, Architecture, Music, Poetry, Biography, Geology, Botany, Medicine, Philosophy, Law, Politics, Arbitration, Treaties, Army, Navy, Finance, Art of War.

The Mosaic Minerva.

Entrance Pavilion-South Corridor.

The Virtues.-By Geo. W. Maynard. Patriotism supports on her arm the American eagle, which she is feeding from a golden bowl. Courage, wearing a casque, is equipped with sword and buckler. Temperance pours water from a pitcher, Prudence has for symbols the mirror and the serpent.

The Seasons.-By F. W. Benson. The Seasons are personified by female figures, with varying landscape and development of vegetation. Spring with a bud, Summer with a lapful of full blown blossoms, Autumn with flying draperies, and the falling leaf; Winter in a landscape cold and bleak. The Graces.-F. W. Benson in ceiling panels celebrates The Graces, the ancient goddesses of whatever is lovely in nature, human life and art. Aglaia, patroness of pastoral life and husbandry, with shepherdess crook, sits on a bank of flowers, and blossoms are in her hair. Thalia, patroness of the arts. is seated upon a marble bench, by her side is a lyre for Music, in the background a Greek temple for Architecture. Euphrosyne, patroness of human loveliness of person and mind, contemplates in a mirror her own fair face.

The Printers' Marks are French. The Trophy Medallions of the ceiling contain symbols of trades and industries: Printer, Potter, Glass Maker, Carpenter, Blacksmith, Mason. Two panels illustrate the modern Baseball and Football.

Sibyls.-Above the west window are sculptures by Perry, of the Roman Sibyl, pictured as an aged crone, who from beneath her veil delivers the oracle to a warrior clad in mail; and the Northern Sibyl clad in fur robes, a Norse warrior attends her utterance. Above the windows are the Caduceus and the Mace, ensigns of authority, and a medallion map of the Eastern Hemisphere.

Entrance Pavilion-West Corridor.

The Sciences.-Walter Shirlaw's ceiling paintings comprise a series of female figures ideal of the Sciences. Zoology clad in skins of wild beasts caresses a lion. Physics holds the torch of investigation. Mathematics has a scroll

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on which geometrical lines are drawn, and her foot rests upon a block of geometrical solids. Geology, with a globe, mineral, fossil shell; the earth and the moon are shown. Archeology, with Minerva's helmet, a marble scroll and Zuñi vase, is seeking to decipher the record contained in an ancient book. Botany, standing upon the pad of a water lily, analyzes its blossom. Astronomy, with feet planted upon the earth, holds a telescopic lens and the sphere of Saturn with its rings. The moon is shown in its crescent phase. Chemistry's symbols are glass retort, hour glass and serpent. Southwest Gallery.

The Sciences-The Arts.-By Kenyon Cox. In the Sciences Astronomy in the center measures a celestial sphere; the other figures are Botany, in dress of green and gold; Zoology, toying with peacock; Mathematics, with a numeral frame on which the heads count the year 1896. In the Arts Poetry, laurel-crowned, sings to the lyre; the other figures are Sculpture and Painting, Architecture and Music.

Above the doors and windows are inscribed names eminent in science and Art: Homer, Michael Angelo, Raphael, Rubens, Milton, Leibnitz, Dalton, Kepler, Herschel, Galileo, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Hipparchus, Lamarck, Helmholtz, Phidias, Vitruvius, Bramantle, Mozart, Wagner.

The ceiling medallions by W. B. Van Ingen are female figures typifying Painting (at work at the easel), Architecture (drawing a plan of a building), and Sculpture (chiseling a bust of Washington). The Printers' Marks are of German craftsmen. Tablets record names distinguished in the sciences: Cuvier of Zoology, Rumford for Physics, LaGrange for Mathematics, Lyell for Geology, Schliemann for Archæology, Linnæus for Botany, Copernicus for Astronomy, Lavoisier for. Chemistry.

Southwest Pavilion.

The Discovery and Settlement of America are the themes of Geo. W. Maynard's decorations. The four wall paintings are allegories of Adventure, Discovery, Conquest and Civilization.

Adventure, clad in armor of gold and purple robes, holds a drawn sword and the Caduceus, or Mercury's magic wand. On her right is the genius of the England of Drake's time; on her left that of the Spain of the sixteenth century. Discovery wears the sailor's buff jerkin of the sixteenth century. She supports with one hand a rudder, and with the other, upon her lap, a globe charted with the map ascribed to Leonardo da Vinci (about 1500), the first one known to show America. The genius on her right has a chart and a paddle; the one on her left a sword and a back-staff, which, like the astrolabe shown in the supporting shields, was a primitive quadrant. Conquest firmly grasps her sword, while her genii display emblems of victory; one has the palm, typical of Spanish achievement in the South; the other the oak, suggesting England's acquisitions in the North. Civilization's emblems are the torch and the open book; those of one genius, a scythe and a sheaf of wheat; of the other, a distaff and spindle. In the ceiling Mr. Maynard has pictured Courage, Valor, Fortitude and Achievement, idealized in woman's form. Courage, clad in scale-armor and a lion's pelt, is equipped with shield and studded war club. Valor, wearing mail, holds a drawn sword. Fortitude. with flowing robes, carries the ornamental column which is the emblem of sustaining strength. Achievement, in Roman armor, points to the eagle of ancient Rome as the symbol of victory.

The Seasons.-In sculpture reliefs, by Bela L. Pratt, the Seasons are symbolized as female figures: Spring, as a young woman sowing grain; Sum

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mer, seated amid flowers; Autumn, a mother nursing her babe, while a boy stands near her with bunches of grapes; Il'inter, an aged woman gathering fagots; an old owl is perched on the withered tree.

Southeast Pavilion-Second Floor.

The Four Elements are symbolized in the wall and ceiling paintings by R. L. Dodge and E. E. Garnsey. In each panel a central figure as the personification of the Element supports emblematic garlands, the other ends of which are held by genii in the corners. Reclining figures are accompanied with symbols; and other symbols are seen on the standards and in the

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borders. The Sun, as the chariot of Phoebus-Apollo, is the central decoration of the ceiling; and surrounding it are symbolizations of the Elements.

Northwest Gallery.

War and Peace.-By Gari Melchers. War represents the return from battle. The dogs of war strain at the leash; then, foot soldiers with spear and buckler; the King on his white horse, riding over the prostrate bodies of the slain; the color-bearer and herald proclaiming victory, and the wounded carried on litters or attended by nurses in the rear. In Peace, the scene is a procession of worshippers who have come to make

their votive offering at the shrine of the deity. The effigy of the goddess is borne in state; an ox is led as the chief offering. In the company come a mother to pray in behalf of her child, the sick to ask health, a poet to offer his laurel wreath, and a sailor lad with a ship's model in token of gratitude for succor at sea.

The names on the walls are: Wellington, Washington, Charles Martel, Cyrus, Alex

ander, Hannibal, Cæsar, Charlemagne, Napoleon, Jackson, Sheridan, Grant, Sherman, William the Conqueror, Frederick the Great, Eugene, Marlborough, Nelson, Scott, Farragut.

Northwest Pavilion.

Art, Literature, Music and Science.-By W. L. Dodge. In Art a student is drawing from a model, while a sculptor is seen chiseling a sphinx, and a woman decorating a vase. Literature has for its leading personage the Genius of Wisdom holding an open book, with Tragedy and Comedy, a poet about to be crowned by Fame, and a mother instructing her children. In Music, Apollo is accompanied by other musicians. In Science Electricity, with phonograph and telephone, kneels to receive from winged Fame the laurel wreath of renown; Franklin's kite is seen on the ground. Steam Navigation is represented by an inventor holding a model of a propeller; Agriculture by a farmer binding grain; Medical Science by anatomists examining a skull; Chemistry by a retort, and the application of Steam Power by a tea-kettle with the steam escaping from the spout. In the ceiling is an allegory of Ambition by the same artist. Various aspirants having attained the utmost verge of human endeavor, with eager gaze and arms outstretched, reach toward Glory, floating far above them, bearing a wreath, and attended by her winged horse Pegasus and trumpeting Fame.