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Among the winners of the Newdigate prizes have been a number of famous men. In 1812, Henry Hart Miliman won the prize for a poem entitled the "Belvidere Apollo"; in 1832, Roundell Palmer, now Lord Selborne, won the prize for his "Staffa"; in 1837, Arthur Peurhyn Stanley, afterwards Dean of Westminster, for "The Gipsies"; in 1839, John Ruskin for his "Salsette and Elephanta"; in 1843, Matthew Arnold wrote the prize poem, "Cromwell"; in 1852, Edwin Arnold, "The Feast of Belshazzar." At a later date, in 1860, J. A. Symonds, author of the "Renaissance in Italy," won the prize...
...that of Conrad Gesner, a Swiss naturalist born in 1516. The date of the autograph is 1563. Among other names contained are those of Linnaeus, 1749, a great Swedish naturalist and the founder of the present methods of botanical classification, Joseph Tournefort and Augustus P. de Candolle, both famous botanists. The collection was begun by Professor Asa Gray and carried on by his wife after his death. It is mounted in four volumes...
...Austin Hall are hung the most valuable collection of engravings of famous English and American judges and lawyers in this country and probably in England, although there are two or three private collections there which may be more valuable. There are about one hundred and fifty of these engravings, and they are hung about the walls of four of the lecture rooms. They are arranged, as far as possible, in chronological order. The engravings of Americans are hung in the east lecture room; the English chancellors in the north lecture room; the judges of the King's Bench, Common Pleas...
Many of the engravings, especially of English chancellors are of great value and beautiful workmanship. Among the more famous English portaits may be mentioned those of Lord Mansfield, Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, Lord Camden and Lord Brougham; and of Americans, an etching of Alexander Hamilton and an engraving of Henry Baldwin, at one time judge of the Supreme Court of the United States...
...look. All were made subservient to the general ideal of Hellenic beauty. Individuality in early busts arose not from differences in the subjects, but from peculiarities of different schools of art. Women, because of their seclusion from public life, were not often portrayed, until the time of the famous Alexandrian queens. The women, even more than the men, were conformed to the ideal of beauty...