Show Student Library The Alice Art Collection consisting of ten medal paintings belonging to the Utah Art Association is now hung in the library They have been loaned to the college for a certain time and are a constant source of pleasure to readers and visitors The opening of the library to readers on Sunday afternoons has been a successful effort to extend the benefits of the institution to Logan The number of visitors on that day has varied from twenty to ninety according to the weather and the inclination of readers Among the gifts received by the College library this year is that from the First Presidency consisting of eight volumes of the publications of the church A very beautiful cast of Michael Angelo’s “Madonna and Child” has been presented to the library of the college by Mr and Mrs George H Champ of Logan The figures in this piece of sculp Lif ture are in “mezzo-relievo- ” gradually graded into a background of low-reli- ef The work is among the most famous of the great master and is often spoken of as the “unfinished Madonna” there being very little detail presented but its face and powerful lines are cunningly sincere The piece is circular in form having a diameter of nearly four feet The cast has been placed in a frame of exceptionally skillful workmanship and finish The frame is of hard wood ten inches wide and beautifully carved in a conventionalized leaf design in low-reliThis carving has been done in the Mechanic Arts department of the college and is the work of Mr Hughs formerly of London England a wood carver of some fame who has lately been employed as an assistant in that department The educational value of the presence of a masterpiece of art cannot be overestimated It is then to those who have carefully selected and generously presented this work that our most apprecief ative thanks are due |