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Show 4. Irish Exhibition at World's Fair. The coming lrih exhibition at the World's Fair in St. Louis will present the most wonderful collection collec-tion of Celtic historic art that has been made in modern times, if not in the history of t lit- world. The artistic industries in which the Iri.-h race, for centuries antedating the Christian period, excelled, will be given prominence in this exhibit. These will be illustrated from earliest times, chiefly as regards re-gards the Celtic period, by fac similes of the bronze and gold work of that time, and al.-.o by full size casts of architecture and sculpture in stone. The famous cross of Muiracaeh at Monasterboiee will be among the objects there represented. A series of fac similes of the illuminated and also of literary manuscripts will bring down this representation of an important province of Irish art and scholarship from the seventh century Book of Rolls to the fourteenth four-teenth or fifteenth century. This illumination of manuscripts was an art in which the old Irish scribes surpassed all others in skill. The rare grace of the intricate designs would puzzled the most skilled chirographist of the present day to imitate without special training. Colors which are bright and fresh today, many centuries after the hand which laid them on the vellum has crumbled into dust, arc a mystery to the painter. With the makers mak-ers of these wonderful inks the secret has passed away. None today can tell of what they were composed. com-posed. From the fifteenth century till tire cloe of the Williamits wars, there was little art work in Ireland. The people were too buy in the struggle for political existence, but from the close of the seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century cen-tury Ireland was famous for the artistic beauty and technical mastery of its silver plate manufacture, manufac-ture, and the generosity of private owners and public pub-lic bodies has enabled a very interesting and valuable valu-able collection of this beautiful art to bo brought together. Some specimens of antique Irish furniture, remarkable re-markable for beauty of carving, will also be shown, including the only existing example, of a member's chair from the Irish house of commons. A fine collection of Cork and Waterford art glass of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries will -help to illustrate the art industries of this period. Closely connected with the historic art industries indus-tries of the country are the historical relics commemorative com-memorative of distinguished Irishmen or of sal ient epochs in Irish history. .Relics commemorative commemora-tive of the Volunteer movement, the Confederation of Kilkenny. The Williamite wars" and' the insurrection insur-rection of 1T9S have been kindly lent by various owners, and personal relics of great interest associated asso-ciated with the names of Swift, Grattan, Burke, Henry Joy, McCracken, O'Connoll, Parnell, Father Matthew and other distinguished Irisluneu have been obtained. An extensive series of Irish coins has been obtained, and a number of articles representing repre-senting minor arts, industries and social life in Ireland Ire-land prior to the nineteenth century. A collection of Irish prints and engravings will be a fitting completion to these" exhibits.- This section sec-tion has been formed under the direction of Mr. Strickland of the National gallery with the double object of presenting a series of portraits of distinguished dis-tinguished Irishmen and masterpieces of the country, coun-try, and of its towns as they existed in earlier times, and at the same time illustrating the art and craft of engraving, which was at one time brought to a high point of development in Ireland. The collection collec-tion of Irish historic portraits is, perhaps, thc most complete that has yet been possible to bring together. to-gether. It will include portraits of Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone; of the famous Franciscan, Luke Wadding, represented by an example from the very rare engraving of the portrait at Rome;' of Sars-field, Sars-field, the hero of Limerick; Walker, the defender of Londonderry; the great Duke of Ormonde, Provost Pro-vost Ussher, Castlereagh, Grattan. Flood, Lord Charlemont, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Wolfe Tone, Emmet, O'Connell, Davis, Parnell, James Barry, Croker, and many others who have played on one side or another a leading part in Irish history, or been connected with Irish literature and art. Mal-ton's Mal-ton's interesting series of old Dublin views will be shown, as .well as the scarce views of the Dublin painter, Jonathan Fisher, and others. Some interesting inter-esting and scarce old maps have been acquired. |