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by beautiful and appropriate friezes and panels 

 by Mowbray, Metcalf, Reid, and Turner; and 

 the library, the robing rooms, and other apart- 

 ments are furnished in a style harmonious with 

 the general design. Regarded as a whole, the 

 building is one of the most successful produc- 

 tions of American art, and reflects infinite credit 

 on its designer. 



Boston: Museum of Fine Arts. The twenty- 

 third annual report gives the officers for 1899: 

 President, William Endicott; Treasurer, Charles 

 Lowell; Director, Charles G. Loring; Executive 

 Committee, William Endicott, Francis Bartlett, 

 Samuel D. Warren, Francis Blake, Charles G. 

 Loring; Committee on the Museum, J. Elliot 

 Cabot, W. P. P. Longfellow, Edward W. Hooper, 

 William Sturgis Bigelow, Arthur Astor Carey, 

 Charles A. Cummings, Charles G. Loring; Com- 

 mittee on the Library, Charles Eliot Norton, W. 

 P. P. Longfellow. The total number of visitors 

 in the past year was 202,205. 



Among the bequests are $730,000 from Hon. 

 Henry L. Pierce, given without restriction, and 

 $146,500 from Mrs. Julia B. H. James, the income 

 to be used for the purchase of works of art. The 

 museum has been largely enriched, and has so 

 outgrown its surroundings that measures are now 

 taking for the procuring of a larger and more 

 eligible site. The museum differs from the Metro- 

 politan Museum of New York in receiving no 

 aid from city or State. 



Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of 

 Fine Arts. The sixty-eighth annual exhibition, 

 which opened on Jan. 14, was more than usually 

 interesting. Most of the prominent New York 

 artists contributed pictures, and more than 20 

 works were sent from Boston. 



Pittsburg: Carnegie Institute. The fourth 

 annual celebration of Founder's Day was held in 

 the Carnegie Music Hall on Nov. 2. The principal 

 speaker was President Arthur Twining Hadley, 

 of Yale University, who delivered an able dis- 

 course on Modern Changes in Educational Ideas. 



The awards made by the International Jury of 

 Award were as follow: Medal of the first class 

 (gold), carrying with it an award of $1,500, to 

 Cecilia Beaux, Philadelphia, for her painting en- 

 titled Mother and Daughter. Medal of the sec- 

 ond class (silver), with an award of $1,000, to 

 Frank M. Benson, of Salem, Mass., for his paint- 

 ing The Sisters. Medal of the third class (bronze), 

 with an award of $500, to Andree Dauchez, Paris, 

 for his painting The Boats. Honorable mention, 

 to Lucien Simon, Paris, for his painting entitled 

 Portraits, and to J. H. Twachtrnan, Greenwich, 

 Conn., for his painting The Waterfall. 



The exhibition, comprising 258 pictures, was 

 one of the best displays ever held in America. 

 The most striking new works by American artists, 

 besides the prize pictures, were Childe Hassam's 

 Improvisation, George De Forest Brush's A Fam- 

 ily Group, Edward C. Tarbell's My Family, Wil- 

 liam M. Chase's portrait of Frank Wadsworth, 

 Winslow Homer's High Seas and Summer Night, 

 Carl Melchor's Young Mother, and Frederick W. 

 Freer's Moonrise. Among foreign canvases were 

 Thaulow's Old Factory in Norway, two marines 

 by Mesdag, Charles Collet's The Three Holy 

 Kings, and some good pictures from Italy and 

 Scotland. 



Miscellaneous. A noteworthy recognition of 

 American art is the election to membership in 

 the Accademia di San Luca of Rome of Daniel 

 Chester French, the sculptor. The Accademia di 

 San Luca, which was founded A. D. 800, has 41 

 members, 20 of whom are foreigners. Its rooms 

 are in the Colonna Palace, near the Quirinal. Mr. 

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French is the first American artist to receive this 

 honor. 



The international contest for the Phcube Hearst 

 architectural plans for the buildings of the Uni- 

 versity of California has been decided in favor 

 of E. Benard, of Paris. Ninety-eight architects 

 contributed designs, which were submitted to a 

 jury in Antwerp. Eleven plans survived a third 

 examination, and these were sent to San Fran- 

 cisco ^or final decision, with the result that 

 Benard was awarded the first prize of $10,000. 

 The second prize, $4,000, was given to Howells, 

 Stokes & Hornbostel, of New York; the third, 

 $3,000, to Despardelles of Stephen Codrnan, of 

 Boston; the fourth, $2,000, to Howard & Cauld- 

 well, of New York; and the fifth, $1,000, to Lord, 

 Hewlett & Hull, of New York. While M. Benard's 

 plan involves the removal of the present buildings 

 and the virtual creation of a new city, he has 

 preserved the natural contour of the ground. The 

 style of the architecture is modern, but leans to 

 the Roman Ionic order. 



A bronze bust of Edgar Allan Poe, by Julian 

 Zolnay, of New York, was unveiled at the Uni- 

 versity of Virginia, at Charlottesville, Va., on 

 Oct. 7. It occupies an alcove in the rotunda of 

 the new library building. The bust, which repre- 

 sents the poet in a reflective mood, with his head 

 slightly bent, bears a facsimile of the poet's signa- 

 ture and the inscription : " Edgar Allan Poe, 

 1809-1849. Student of the University of Virginia, 

 February to December, 1826." The principal ad- 

 dress was made by Hamilton W. Mabie. Letters 

 were received from prominent literary men all 

 over the United States. 



FLOBIDA, a Southern State, admitted to the 

 Union March 3, 1845; area, 58,680 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial cen- 

 sus since admission, was 87,445 in 1850; 140,424 

 in 1860; 187,748 in 1870; 269,493 in 1880; and 391,- 

 422 in 1890. By the State census of 1895 it was 

 464,639. Capital, Tallahassee. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, William D. 

 Bloxham; Secretary of State, John L. Crawford; 

 Treasurer, James B. Whitfield; Comptroller, W. 

 H. Reynolds; Attorney-General, William B. La- 

 mar; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Wil- 

 liam N. Sheats; Adjutant General, Patrick Hous- 

 toun; Commissioner of Agriculture, Lucius B. 

 Wombwell; State Chemist, W. A. Rawls; State 

 Examiner, W. V. Knott; Railroad Commissioners, 

 R. H. M. Davidson, H. E. Day, J. M. Bryan; 

 Board of Health, W. B. Henderson, D. T. Gerow, 

 H. L. Simpson; Chief Justice of the Supreme 

 Court, R. F. Taylor; Associate Justices, Milton 

 H. Mabry and Francis B. Carter. 



Finances. The report of Treasurer shows a 

 balance, Jan. 1, 1899, of $317,372.06. The balance 

 in the treasury, Jan. 1, 1900, to the credit of the 

 several State funds was $318,416.40. The deficit 

 of the former Treasurer, C. B. Collins, $52,591.97, 

 was reduced $26,225.38 through suits instituted 

 by the State against him and his bondsmen. Pay- 

 ment on a loan of $200,000 borrowed by the 

 State in 1891 was made, reducing the amount 

 to $100,000, and arrangements were made for pay- 

 ment of the entire amount in January, 1900. The 

 total bonded indebtedness of the State is $322,- 

 500. The aggregate assessed valuation of prop- 

 erty in 1898 was $93,900,823.75. The total tax 

 levy for 1899 was 4f mills; general revenue tax, 

 3 mills; Board of Health tax, I mill; pension 

 tax, mill; school tax, 1 mill. The Treasurer 

 in his report says the general revenue tax for 

 1900 can be reduced to 2i mills because of the 

 final payment of the debt of $200,000. 



