the battle of Austerlitz. The figures are three feet in height and many of
them are portraits. The metal was obtained by melting down 1,200
Russian and Austrian cannons. At the top is a statue of Napoleon in his
Imperial robes. This column reflects the political history of France."
The design sculptor is Bergeret. For their antiquity the mummies and
statues in the Egyptian galleries of the British Museum are very
interesting. They embrace the period from 3600 years before Christ to
350 A.D. "The tomb of Napoleon by Visconte," and "the twelve colossal
victories surrounding the sarcophagus by Pradier," are among the finest
works of Parisian sculpture. The sarcophagus, thirteen feet long, six
and one-half feet high, consists of a single huge block of reddish-brown
granite, weighing upwards of sixty-seven tons, brought as a gift from
Finland at a cost of $700,000. The Louvre, Paris, contains one of the
finest art galleries in Europe, and with the Tuilleries, covers about eight
acres, "forming one of the most magnificent places in the world."

In our limited experience at travel we have yet to find a single object of
beauty or utility that is not the product of skill, of genius, of great labor.
Every monument bears testimony of struggle, of bloodshed, of hard-
earned victory; beneath every tomb that honor has erected rests the body
of incarnate intelligence, fidelity, and courage. In the shadow of every
great cathedral lies collected the moth and rust from the coppers of
myriad-handed toilers of five and ten centuries. The towers and domes
of London, and Paris, and Amsterdam, and Dublin are monuments to
the genius of the architect and to the faithfulness of the common toiler.
The parks and gardens tell of centuries of wise and faithful application
of the laws of growth, of symmetry, of design in form and color. The
historic chapels of worship and learning breathe the very incense of
devotion and reverence for truth; while the conservatories of sculpture
and painting preserve what is divinest in human experience. Age alone