. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . ooks into thegardens. Though many of its contents—especially the MSS.—are of price-less value, 24,000 of them in Greek, Latin, and Oriental languages are shutup in bookcases, and no books are visible except a few specimens. Theseare placed in cases which may be opened if the guide is not pressed for 376 r Rome. -^ time. There are also 30,000 printed books here. One of the most remark-able manuscripts is the Vatican Codex—a Greek Bible of the third andfourth centuries. The G--at Ha
. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . ooks into thegardens. Though many of its contents—especially the MSS.—are of price-less value, 24,000 of them in Greek, Latin, and Oriental languages are shutup in bookcases, and no books are visible except a few specimens. Theseare placed in cases which may be opened if the guide is not pressed for 376 r Rome. -^ time. There are also 30,000 printed books here. One of the most remark-able manuscripts is the Vatican Codex—a Greek Bible of the third andfourth centuries. The G--at Hall is 230 feet long by 56 wide. At theend the Library branches otf to the right and to the left, and in the roomsto the left are interesting museums of Christian antiquities, containingarticles used by the early Christians in their rites. In the Museum of Sculpture at the Vatican there are nearly iSoo works,many of them of great beauty. Near the Hall of Animals are the four mostcelebrated pieces of sculpture—the Laocoon, the Apollo Belvedere,the Boxers by Canova, and the Mercury. The Sleeping Ariadne,. which we have engraved, is also in the Galler}-, and takes ver)- high rankfor its general artistic excellence. In the Chiaramonti Galler)- there arethe Niobid and the Voung Augustus. In passing through the galleries of the \atican one feeling is very stronglyaroused, and that is the feeling of boundless art-wealth that is containedwithin its walls. In the Etruscan and Egyptian Museums, equally with itsrare vases, and still rarer tapestr) and sculpture, the immense appreciationof all art objects is vigorously manifested. The galleries of Rome are exceptionally rich in sculpture. We givesome outline engravings of statues that are familiar to us all. They areso celebrated that they have been reproduced in every variety of materialand for all uses. There are, however, conspicuous differences between thesculpture of the Antique and that of the Middle Ages. The Moses of Michael
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