The Court of the Universe has more than its share of the best sculpture
of the Exposition. In this court more than anywhere else one can obtain
an idea of the remarkable scope of the sculptured groups. It is a good
place to linger in if one has heretofore had pessimistic doubts about
the ultimate flowering of the art of sculpture in America.

The Fountain of the Rising Sun is at the east end of the sunken garden.
Its tall shaft is surmounted by the figure of a youth typifying the
Rising Sun-a figure of irresistible appeal. The morning of day and the
morning of life, the freshness of the dawn and the aspiration of youth--
these things are remarkably suggested in the figure. With head up and
winged arms outstretched, the youth is poised on tiptoe, the weight
thrown forward, as if just on the point of soaring.

The Fountain of the Setting Sun is just opposite, at the west end of the
sunken garden. The surmounting figure here, though officially called
"The Setting Sun," is more appropriately named "Descending Night"-the
title the artist has given to the bronze replica in the Fine Arts
gallery. The closing in of night-that is what is so perfectly
suggested in the relaxed body, the folding-in wings, and the remarkable
sense of drooping that characterizes the whole statue. There is, too, an
enveloping sense of purity and sweetness about the figure.

These two statues which surmount the Fountains of the Rising Sun and the
Setting Sun are among the most charming sculptures at the Exposition.
They have not the strength of the figures of the Elements, or the
massive nobility and repose of the Genius of Creation, or the purely
modern native appeal of the works of Stackpole and Young and Fraser. But
for those of us who are sculpture lovers without asking why, they come
closer to our hearts and dwell more intimately in our minds than any of