barely above the level of the ground, as though for the watering of
small animals. Ceres stands above, with a wreath of cereals and a
scepter of corn. The frieze pictures the dance of joyous nature.

Fountain of Earth.--In Mullgardt's Court of Ages is the Fountain of
Earth, by Robert Aitken, the most magnificently virile of all the
Exposition fountains, conceived of a powerful imagination and executed
in strength and beauty. (p. 70, 73.)

The sculpture of the fountain must be described in three parts. Aitken's
own interpretation is condensed in the following account. On the wall of
the parapet at the foot of the pool, sixty feet from the central
structure, is a colossal figure symbolizing Helios, in his arms the
great globe of the setting sun after it has thrown off the nebulous mass
that subsequently became the earth. The whole expresses primitive man's
idea of the splashing of the sun into the water as it sets.

On the side of the central structure toward the figure of Helios, and
leading up to the Earth, are two groups, each of five crouching figures,
and divided by a conventional plane. At the outer extremity, Destiny, in
the shape of two enormous hands and arms, gives life with one and takes
it with the other. The five figures on the left side represent the Dawn
of Life, those on the right, the Fullness and End of Existence. The
first group begins with a woman asleep, just from the hand of Destiny;
while the succeeding figures symbolize the Awakening, the Joy of Being,
finally, the Kiss of Life, with the human pair offering their children,
representing the beginnings of fecundity.

On the east side, a figure of Greed looks back on the earth, the mass in
his hands suggesting the futility of worldly possessions. Next is a