SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON 5151 



SAINT HELENA 



Farragut statue for Madison Square, New York, 

 and the figure of Governor Randall for Sailors' 

 Snug Harbor. His work also includes The Puri- 

 tan for Springfield, Mass. ; reliefs of Dr. McCosh 

 for Princeton and of Dr. Bellows for the Unita- 

 rian Church of All Souls, New York; the Gar- 

 fu Id monument in Philadelphia ; and the Logan 



*e, a conspicuous figure in Chicago's lake- 

 front park. The great Sherman monument, 

 finished in Paris in 1897, was exhibited in plas- 

 ter at the Exposition of 1900. 



The people of his art are human and lovable, 

 and even the figure of Grief in Rock Creek 

 Cemetery, Washington, D. C., has so little of 

 the repellent quality of sorrow that it has often 

 been more appropriately called The Peace of 

 God. It is a bronze figure, somewhat more 

 than life-size, seated on a granite rock against 



ill of the same material. It is muffled as 

 if in unearthly garments, but the face is visible. 

 The right hand is raised to support the chin, 

 and the arm is exposed to the elbow. It is a 

 strange, sphinxlike presence the bald, bleak 

 statement of the essential thing the fact of 

 grief. It is massive and mysterious, with sol- 

 emn dignity in its broad, simple lines ; no name 

 appears on the monument; no inscription of 

 any kind. 



;nt Gaudens' low reliefs are also famous 

 for their rare charm and are rivaled in modern 

 art only by the portraits of David d'Angiers. 

 They include low reliefs of the Butler and 

 SrlntT children and of Miss Violet Sargent, but 

 tli* best known are those of Bastien-Lepage 

 ami Robert Louis Stevenson. He was commis- 

 sioned by the United States government to fur- 

 nish the designs for ten- and twenty-dollar gold 

 coins, but his designs were rejected because the 



- wen- hinher than the rims. M.R.T. 

 SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAG'ON, a 

 legend of the patron saint of England. Accord- 

 in n to the story, as Saint George was riding 

 across a marsh he encountered a sad procession, 

 led by a beautiful nirl dresx-d in a bride's gar- 

 menta. She was the king's daughter, on her 

 way to be sacrificed to a dragon which had ter- 



d the country for years. All the sheep on 

 li Imd had been offered to it, and now lots 

 were cast each day for human victims. Saint 

 George promised the people deliverance, and 



-ring on the advancing dragon, injured it 

 with Ins magic sword Ascalon. Thru he < 

 t<> the princess to bind it with her girdle. The 

 dragon becan. ik and tame, 



and followed her to the market plan in the 

 city.- There Saint George killed it with his 



magic sword, telling the people as he did so 

 that it was done to show the power of God. 

 The people then gave up their idols and. ac- 

 cepted Christianity, and the princess married 

 the knight who had rescued her. A painting of 

 the slaughter of the dragon, by Raphael, is in 

 the Louvre, Paris. Edward III of England 

 made Saint George the patron of the Knights 

 of the Garter, and a jeweled figure represent- 

 ing his slaying of the dragon is one of the in- 

 signia of that Order. A Russian Order of Saint 

 George was founded by Catharine II in 1769. 



SAINT GEORGE'S CHANNEL, an arm of 

 the Atlantic Ocean which separates Southern 

 England and Wales from the south of Ireland. 

 It is about 100 miles long, and its width varies 

 from 60 to 100 miles. It runs from Holyhead 

 and Dublin to Saint David's Head, uniting the 

 Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. 



SAINT GOTTHARD, saN gotahr', an ele- 

 vated plateau in Switzerland, belonging to the 

 Central Alps. It is broken up by lofty peaks, 

 and has a cross valley through which passes a 

 famous Alpine road (see subhead below). The 

 entire area of the plateau or mountain group is 

 644 square miles, of which about four-fifths is 

 Swiss and one-fifth Italian. Monte Leone, the 

 highest peak of the group, lying east of the 

 Simplon Pass, is 11,694 feet in height. North 

 of it are the Waserhorn, 10,727 feet high, and 

 the Bortelhorn, whose altitude is 10,481 feet. 

 It is believed that the Saint Gotthard Moun- 

 tains were named after a chapel of Saint 

 Gotthard, built in the twelfth century. Tin- 

 plateau is connected at its four corners with 

 the neighboring mountains by the Niifenen 

 Pass, Furca Pass, Lukmanier Pass and the 

 Oberalp. 



Saint Gotthard Tunnel, a railway thorough- 

 fare through the Saint Gotthard Pass in the 

 Alps, construct nl to give direct transit by rail 

 from (Jeriiiany to Italy. Operations began in 

 October, 1872, and tin- work was completed in 

 February. 1XSO; at that lime the tunnel wa.- tin- 

 longest in the world. It is 9% miles long, 26 

 wide and 21% feet high. It is arched with 

 brick and lined \\ith rough stones. Train* n- 

 he passage by ascending through spiral 

 tunnels from tin- valley below. It connect* tin- 

 railways of Northern Italy with those of Swit- 

 md and Germany and was financed by the 

 governments of these three countries The cost 

 of con.-tru.-t I,, n i- estimated at more than $45,- 

 000,000. 



SAINT HELENA, helc'na, a British island 

 in the Atlantic Ocean, 1.200 miles west of the 



