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Show HUMAN COMEDY IN STONE. Tho Busts Which Will Adorn the New IA. brary Buildings at Washington. Nine 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. Ma-caulay. Judging by newapaper cute, a great variety of expression has been obtained by the respective artists who have madfe these nine busts. Walter Scott has tho intent, forward gaze of a college sprinter waiting foi the word "go." Dante looks as if Dr. I Chatmeev M. Darcevv had iust 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 cf electricity electrici-ty in .Nathaniel Hawthorne's back hair. Macaulay has put 011 a beautifully and symmetrically curled wig. Ralph Waldo Wal-do Emerson has got the railroad pass 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 hit an;rt iwi ear tin invitation to armu from a man whom his soul loathes. For picturesor.o 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 Etone. The appearance ap-pearance of the second nine will be waited with great interest. Washington Washing-ton Tjft.f |