. Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs. Reading Room Library of Congress Page 110 toward the Capitol on one side and into one of the courts (witha good view of the north book-stack) on the other. Red, is theprevaiHng color here, emphasizing the arabesques on the wallsand adapting itself to the theme of decoration. The special decorations filling the arched ends of the hallabove the doors are by Gari Melchers. War, at the north end 106 RAND McNALLY WASHINGTON GUIDE. PeaceN. W. Corridor, Second Floor, Library of Congress of the gallery, represents a triumphant, laurel-crowned
. Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs. Reading Room Library of Congress Page 110 toward the Capitol on one side and into one of the courts (witha good view of the north book-stack) on the other. Red, is theprevaiHng color here, emphasizing the arabesques on the wallsand adapting itself to the theme of decoration. The special decorations filling the arched ends of the hallabove the doors are by Gari Melchers. War, at the north end 106 RAND McNALLY WASHINGTON GUIDE. PeaceN. W. Corridor, Second Floor, Library of Congress of the gallery, represents a triumphant, laurel-crowned chief offighting men of some primitive time and place leading homehis victorious band, the dogs of war straining at the leash inadvance. A herald blows a pa?on of victory, but the horsemenride over bodies of the slain, weak men fall by the wayside, andin the very foreground of the scene their own losses are sug-gested in the dead captain borne homeward. Thus the dreadas well as the glory of war is depicted. Peace, is at the south end. The time and scene, as before,are carried back to that prehistoric state of society which isregarded by the poets as Arcadian in its simplicity and inhabitants of a village have come in religious processionto a grove wherein resides their tutelary deity, whose imagethey are reverently bearing; and while the priest chants a litanythey bring forward the thank-offerings each means to lay atthe feet of the goddess. The fattened ox may be
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