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Show HUMAN COMEDY IN STONE. The Busts Which Will Adorn the New IA. brary Buildings at Washington. Nino busts in granite have been finished fin-ished for the exterior decoration of the new library of congress in Washington. The worthies who first come to the front are Walter Scott Dante, Demosthenes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emerson, Irving, Goethe, Benjamin Franklin and Ma caulay. Judging by newapaper cuta, a great variety of expression has been obtained by the respective artists who have mad these nine busts. Walter Scott has the intent, forward gaze of a collega sprinter waiting f oi the word "go." Dante looks as if Dr. Chauncey M. Dapew had just refused to accommodate him with a pass to Buffalo. Buffa-lo. The model who sat for Demosthenes. was Puck's Weary Waggles. Benjamin Franklin is slyly chuckling over his success suc-cess in lodging a big charge of electricity electrici-ty in Nathaniel Hawthorne's back hair. Macaulay has put on a beautifully and symmetrically curled wig. Ralph Waldo Wal-do Emerson has got the railroad pas which Dante missed. Washington Irving Irv-ing is listening . to the Hon. Amos J. Cummings' latest and best anecdote, and Goethe has just caught through his alert left ear as. invitation to drink from a man whom his soul loathes. For picturesque animation the work of the seven sculptors seems meritorious. If this is only a beginning, the front of the new library buildings bids fair to be a human comedy in stone. The appearance ap-pearance of the second nine will be waited with great interest. Washington Washing-ton TiPt.tP" |
