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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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tShepards Bush, England. When in place,the Speakers desk will be flanked by twopanels commemorating Penns Treaty withthe Indians, and The Signing of theDeclaration; the circular ceiling will showthe Flight of the Hours. Another canvas symbolizes the Apothe-osis of Pennsylvania; in it two gray col-umns with gilded capitals carry the specta-tors eye toward the sumptuous temple,where the Genius of State is enthroned be-hind laurel under the majestic dome of blueand white sky. Around the temple aregrouped the worthies who have helped toshape the destinies of the Commonwealthand to crown it with honor—Sir WalterRaleigh, the organizer of Colonial settle-ments; Hudson, who sighted Delaware Bay;Peter Minuit, who left the Swedish flag at theheadwaters of the Chesapeake; types likethe Scotch-Irish scout represent the West-ward making pioneer, and a group of darkfantastic figures like the Woman of theWilderness represent the religious refugeesfrom many lands. 304 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS
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Coiiyritfht, )9U8, by Hdwin Austin Ahbey. l-roin a Copley Irini. copyright, 19U8, by Curtis & Caiiierou SCIENCE REVEALING THE TREASURES OF THE EARTH (Decoration for the Pennsylvania Capitol. By Edwin Austin Abbey) The allegory passes in the second lineto soldiers of the Revolution, signers of theDeclaration and men of action, philosophyand science. Here are Anthony Wayne,John Dickinson, Thomas MacKean, BishopWhite, Muhlenberg, Dallas, Caspar Wistar,John Fitch, Oliver Evans, David Ritten-house, Benjamin Rush, Stephen Girard,Tom Paine; in a central group are, WilliamPenn, BenjaminFranklin, and Robert Morris. In the foreground on the right are groupsof miners and iron and steel workers, in aruddy glow of furnace fires, and in the oppo-site quarter there are soldiers and sailors inblue, with drummer boys in the first file, andGenerals Meade and Hancock mounted be-hind them, with grim Thaddeus Stevens andenergetic Governor Curtin looking on, andwith the blue State flag behind them with

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