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...entire library building situated at No. 33 East 36th street, Manhattan, is built of white marble with a magnificently sculptured frieze on the outside. In the hall, the walls of white marble and mosaic form an exquisite setting for the bronze doors, which are masterpieces of Italian cire perdue work of the 16th Century, said to be as fine as those of the Baptistry of Florence. The most conspicuous object in the hall is a bronze bust of the Marquis of Pescara, wearing the Golden Fleece, ascribed to Benvenuto Cellini. In the rooms, which will form the happy hunt...
...tell where they have ever seen this beauty about which they sing in sweetened notes. Pertinex writes in his sonnets about "Inspiration"; Whitney Cromwell writes with a pleasant absence of gravity about "Reading an Obituary". George P. Ludlam speaks in a serious poetic style in "Illustrating a Persian Mosaic". Theodore Hope writes briefly on "Nightfall"; and Charles Allen Smart contributes a rondel, "I Mounted Joy at Eventide...
...sixteen leaders signed the manifesto denouncing the conduct of the Liberal party of Venizelos. During the campaign and after their victory disagreement has risen among them more than once. Two cabinets had to resign, unable to cope with the situation. The present one, under D. Gunaris, is a mosaic of forces whose tendency is towards discerption rather than stability. It is a question of how long this artificial alliance can last. After all this internal cause is by far a worse enemy for the powers that be in Greece than the pressure exercised by the Allied Governments. On the other...
...Sano di Pietro and improved it by modernizing it. His ablest authentic picture, "The Virgin Entroned with Angeles" (1470) is in the Siena Academy. Matteo painted several pictures representing the "Massacre of the Innocents," two of which are still preserved. A third is in the Naples Gallery. A mosaic by him of the same subject is on the floor of the Siena Cathedral, a rubbing of which is in the South Kensington Museum. In the same cathedral there are two other pavements by Matteo. Other famous pictures by the master are in San Domenico at Siena, in the National Gallery...
...departure of enemy students and the decrease of students from friendly and neutral countries. Still, all alien and enemy students have not gone; there are sixty-two Russian students, two English five Italian and one Belgian, but they are doubtless of German origin, or possibly a cosmopolitan class of mosaic nationality. New York...