Show AN ant pilgrimage visit to Mo public library correspondence tribune TrI bitne I 1 new new york city feb 5 18 G I 1 have bern been on a pilgrimage to doston tile the mecca which all good americans should about it if they have tile ally ity at some time or another malt sit there Is to so much that Is in american literature clearly associated nith boxton boston or it a short radius from that point that it Is delightful to visit the places connected with names fAmIl lax to all of us from our earliest childhood chill hood then there Is that most beautiful of all buildings in america and equal to most of 0 tho the old world the public library that alone Is worthy enough for or a long lone journey containing ae 09 it does docs some of 0 the finest fresco rasco paintings arl s of tile tho century thorn thero Is IL a charming picturesque element in tho the Irr cular streets ani quaint old houses me many ny of 0 which hitch havo have stood for or ft a century that li in so 0 o nt frona from other american cripe while things do not move so slow and imy caay going as in washington there Is no not that dreadful rush anti hurry which which 1 nukes sk flails one distracted at times in new lork 1 and I 1 d chicago the people slavs have lim almo to be polite Is not allays the case in the other places I 1 speak 0 of there have been published Is no many magazine and newspaper articles about the library that it may seem poem superfluous for or me to write any an thing more but for or tile the benefit or of those who MAY not have lead them I 1 shall venture to add another article it seems cems very sitting fitting that Tl bloston oston which has always alwa ys prided itself most moat upon lilian its intellectual advancement should make the most t important public building a library for or the improvement and benefit benert of 0 the deop people le A GREAT BUILDING other cities pride themselves upon having their inest finest building one for or government or judicial purposes in our own on city for or instance many hundred thousands have been spent on a public building but 1 if it had not been for or the energy or of a few private individuals our only library mould have had to close its doors one of 0 the most interesting things thing to me was thi the evid sit enjo enjoyment ment ct a ever every one la in the building of 0 all ail that it contained nearly every part Is open for or each and every individual to enter if he chooses choose 36 and no a one cm to question any ones right to please himself the w v hole hoie place impresses ono one as lie ha ing ine a very liberal spirit tire main entrance and stair staircase cas e Is in so 80 beautiful that it Is hard to leave it t and pa pass on tho the stairs are of hory gray marble the walla units are a a rich warm yellow slenna sienna marble very similar in colar to some of our best utah onyx the marble blends tile tho greatest care was taken that it be the same name tints all through so no that the color scheme Is perfect of I 1 do not know 0 of a better belter object lesson desoo n than this thin staircase hall as it shot 3 that stone and marble require a kno knowledge wi of harmonious color blending as much as any other lighter material materia i to 0 produce the greatest effect so a mj much e h care was taken of this that years were spent in securing pieces lefore enough of the right r shade bade could be obtained the stal staircase reneo divides at halt half its h height end and separates to the right land and left here at this point on either cither side oro are pedestals with Con chant lions of the same marble but not they are cut in strong noble manses without much detail and therefore are most mast dignified and impressive they are memorials to two SAO of the infantry regiments A FAMOUS decoration at the head h iid of the staircase la Is the famous wall decoration by de charaline Cha Ch aratine the french painter pi who Is 1 by many considered the greatest living artist the subject Is ia the muses welcoming string the genius of enlightenment the painting covers thit shop entire end of the hall bail and of course 1 Is 15 5 treated in a a decorative manner there are a number of panels along either cither slue side of the staircase which chich are to be filled by the same artist at one end of tho the hall lit Is the delivery room in which books are applied tor for and returned this Is the handsomest room in the building the floor 0 r Is tiled alth w ath red marble and it hase has a very line fine mantel of marble of th the same color the ceiling Is of wood pati with I 1 deep beams dark d ar Is blue in color it Is 11 this room ahl which c h contains the decorations by n E A A ably abl y of the holy grace crace thore are only live anve 0 of tho the series shed all tire are eight feet high and of at various lengths they are arc very rich and beautiful in enter color red and gold the subject in well chosen for this room which blob Is used more often than any other in the Luil guilding ding it Is more pleasing arid and in lighter vein N alil than tho the sargent frescoes in the hall above which are like a deep solemn hymn TITO THE SARGENT PICTURES aro are in a long hall on the third floor where there are fewer disturbances disturbance and where a number of people aro are always to bo be found seated lit in quiet enjoyment or study of their there Is nothing else in the hall sae caie one or two pieces of statuary and it Is in like the interior of it a church it is I 1 so quiet and awe inspiring the ceiling and lu nitta or upper hall bid decoration Is purely deco decorative rathe the frieze Is treated mostly in a natural manner to understand the ide ideas as conveyed conas canas it Is necessary to read a description which Is placed tor for convenience on cards scattered around I 1 shall not attempt to describe in detail the fresco as descriptions of pictures without are always less A SS the subject Is religious the upper portions portraying the confusion 0 of f early idolatries Idol atries ond arid the gradual d development e into the christian glon tho the frieze represents moses and tho the prophets these are arc to be continued by chi ISE preaching to the elie nations of tho the earth 1 mr sargent Is now at work upon this part parl that mr sargent worked from all tho the noblest and best ends which his great gan genius iris waa mas capable caiM ible of can be seen 8 en and felt in ili the entire work lie he realized the great opportunities which it gave cave him of what he could do and he roso rose equal to the oc occasion cargion lits hl friebe h has more of the spirit of the th old matters masters than anything since that time although it la is unlike any other and Is full of original creation it Is 19 tie no doubt one of tile the greatest crea test works since the time of at lit michael ichael angelo opportunity port unity means meana nult suite no as much in the life of 0 an artist as genius and I 1 think wo we all owe it a dott dot t of gratitude to tho the i generous te nerous people pi who gave anve sargent that opportunity to show hla big geilus to be greater than many had supposed GRAND FRESCOES there are many other beautiful and rare objects in decoration but they rite are rather overpowered by the frescoes in three different places are as many tone stone tablets the winged lion of st slark lark caned in the stone none thee were brought bronchi iram from toms some oll old palace in venice there are arc some wrought alron ir on doors 0 of beautiful designs which came from the same fame city these fire are hu hune ng near the the building has ha an inner court which Is quite magnin cent A wide arcaded cloister with very line fine columns of stone atone Is on three rides and on the other which Is where the sted staircase rease landing Is in a beautiful balcony there Is to be a laffre fountain of b broniec n e with it a dancing bacchante irot 1 statue ue by macmonnies one of ahm th charms about the whole building Is the simple dignity of treatment throughout thero there Is no multitude of patty aptly detail the surfaces lull races are arc nearly all smooth and the beauty Is in the fine proportions and harmonious c olor color arrangements to show how much muc h care was paid to this when the bricks were nere made tor for the interior court it man was sent to cape cod to search for sand tor for the mortar that should be yellow enough to blend with the brick it Is in fluch thought as tills this which has made the building the great success it undoubtedly to IB on the south side lif of 0 the same square as the library Is the th art mu museum sturn wylah hos has the second place in size fille and importance of the museums of the country GILBERT STUARTS WORK WORIC there Is ill the largest collection of the work of gilbert stuart to be found a anywhere y about fifteen otteen of his pictures a are r huner together what Is claimed to so b be the only portrait of oc washington which was wan painted from life Is among them the room where jhc re th the stuart pictures are it filled with good examples of the early american school over twenty of at Alli sons and fifteen by copley make it a very complete exhibition of t that hat period there in I 1 a perfect collection of japanese wort work in bronze and drawings m which aich Is the best in the country and an instructive and rare collection of at egyptian curiosities the latest in the gallery tor for modern and contemporary work Is in a picture by geor de forest rc r c broth 11 called mother ATo lher and child although there Is no attempt made to make a mdonna madonna out of it by mr mir brush the only thing thine one can think of in at it Is of it a madonna so 0 o pure and deep Is it in feeling so 0 o rich and elow clow ing in color it Is one of tho the hept boat and mot serious work ever pointed painted by an american artist and was aa the cause of much praise and from all his him brother artists somi some of whom nhom derl arnd mr air bruch deserved before all others t the laurel urel wreath perhaps it would cold aft I 1 nutte I 1 just alt to say sav thit that sargent Sar prent Is 19 the michael angola a and nd brush the raphael of the american amerian painters and its a both are best represented in boston I 1 hope that all who tire are interested enough may have the same sam e pleasure as a I 1 have MONA |