Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . stry are shown bythe decaying body of a beast, which, in returning to the earthfrom which it came, fertilizes the soil and luxuriant flowers arespringing up around it. In the rocky background of the picturea fairy stands with uplifted wand, as if to direct the spirits whoattend to the experiment going on in the retort. Physics washappily explained by the artist in the following words: Whatis, for example, the most important element in physics? InEdisons country there can be but one reply—electricity. Andwhat is the most striking manner in whic
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . stry are shown bythe decaying body of a beast, which, in returning to the earthfrom which it came, fertilizes the soil and luxuriant flowers arespringing up around it. In the rocky background of the picturea fairy stands with uplifted wand, as if to direct the spirits whoattend to the experiment going on in the retort. Physics washappily explained by the artist in the following words: Whatis, for example, the most important element in physics? InEdisons country there can be but one reply—electricity. Andwhat is the most striking manner in which electricity is used?For the transmission of news by telegraph. News is of twokinds, good and bad, and the incarnation of these two kinds intwo different personages at once suggested itself. I aimed,above all, to express my idea simply. It needs no interpreterto point out which of the figures is the type of good news. NoWrconsidering the panels on the side walls of the staircase, weshall begin with the one on the left, Philosophy. The scene is. ONE OF THE PERIODICAL KUUAIS. 14 GUIDE TO BOSTON. a garden in Athens; Plato stands in tlie foreground discoursingwith one of his disciples, while others are seen in the distanceengaged in conversation or absorbed in study. In tlie back-ground rises the Akropolis, crowned by the Parthenon. InAstronomy are seen types of those primitive observers of celestialbodies, the Shepherds of Chaldea. Standing upon a rocky ledge,their vigil shared by a woman who looks out from a tent of crudeconstruction, two scantily clad men are absorbed in contempla-tion of the countless stars in Heavens blue vault. In the thirdpanel, that of History, are the ruins of a temple, where, in formerages, men had worshipped their gods. The Doric column indi-cates a former colonnade, now crumbled by time. History, withlaurelled brow, stands upon the broken steps which once led tothe shrine, and seems to implore the Past to reveal its her side a naked youth
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