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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



October 1, IBIS. 



sponse : and the resultant Hague Con- 

 ference of 1899. 



THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION. 



Then Mr. Carnegie, in the spirit of 

 true poetry, resolved to give to what 

 had been " an airy nothing " a " local 

 habitation," as well as a name. In 1903 

 he placed at the disposal of the Dutch 

 Government the sum of one and a half 

 million dollars " for the purpose of 

 ejecting and maintaining at The Hague 

 a Courthouse and Library for the per- 

 manent Court of Arbitration estab- 

 lished by the treaty of the 29th of July, 

 1899." The Dutch Government, "wish- 

 ing to show how greatly it was pleased 

 with the establishment of the permanent 

 Court of Arbitration at the Hague, and 

 full of thankfulness for Mr. Carnegie's 

 considerable donation," with the help 

 of the States General placed a sum of 

 700,000 guilders — say, £56,000— " with 

 which to buy five hectares of grounds 

 covered with trees, which had formerly 

 been part of the Royal Park known as 

 Zorgvlied." The deed of transference 

 was only completed at the end of July, 

 1905. 



WHERE THE PALACE STANDS. 



The Palace stands against a back- 

 ground of tree-clad sandhills, sur- 

 rounded by gardens now aflame with 

 colour. One of these is sunk several 

 feet and is a glory of roses. The palace 

 in shape is a rectangle enclosing a gar- 

 den and forming roughly a square, 

 being about 85 yards by 86. The build- 

 ing on three sides constitutes the Court 

 House, on the fourth — the west — side, 

 the Library. Of the two great towers, 

 the taller is over the ante-chamber of 

 the smaller court, the smaller rises be- 

 hind the larger court, which may be 

 taken as a hint that the steady settle- 

 ment of many minor disputes may do 

 more to lift up the cause of peace than 

 the judicial disposal of the few great 

 rases. 



The front as it faces you on your 

 arrival from the city — from the great 

 tower on your left to the great hall 

 of justice on your right — strikes you as 

 at once pleasing and imposing. The 

 arched colonnade on the ground floor 

 offers the nearest approach to the idea 



of massive strength which the building 

 affords. Above this rise the rectangular 

 windows of the first floor, which show 

 strength yielding to grace, and above 

 these again springs the high roof, with 

 its many eyelet windows, ending at the 

 centre in the slender shaft of the belfry. 



STATUES SYMBOLIC. 

 The facade of the second floor is 

 adorned with a number of statues sym- 

 bolising qualities and achievements of 

 human endeavour. Round the corner to 

 your left are figures representing Sci- 

 ence, Art, Agriculture, and Navigation. 

 On the front of the great tower stand 

 Commerce and Industry. Between the 

 front windows are ranged in succession 

 from left to right Eloquence, Consci- 

 ence, Will-Force (a characteristic 

 novelty), Authority, Study, Wisdom, 

 Humanity, Constancy ; while guarding 

 like sentinels the main window of the 

 great court are stone embodiments of 

 Justice and Law. High above all, in 

 the central gable over the main en- 

 trance, stands the ideal figure of Peace, 

 resting her hands on the hilt of a 

 sheathed sword, round which are 

 swathed the scrolls, presumably of con- 

 trolling law. 



FOUR BUSTS OF MEN. 



But the statuary of the finished 

 palace will not be wholly symbolic. 

 There will certainly be four busts ; one 

 of Hugo Grotius, the pioneer of inter- 

 national law, of whom his own Holland 

 and the world is justly proud, presented 

 by the Society of Vrede door Recht 

 (Peace by Law) ; one of King Edward 

 VII., the Monarch of Peace, presented 

 by the Peace Society ; one of Sir Ran- 

 dall Cremer (who with Karl Marx and 

 Mazzini helped to found the once 

 dreaded " International "), the gift of 

 the International Arbitration League ; 

 and one of Mr. W. T. Stead. This 

 last is executed by Mr. Toon Dupuis, 

 of the Hague, and is presented by the 

 journalists of Holland. 



During his long association with The 

 Hague and the Peace Conference there, 

 Mr. Stead came to be looked upon with 

 much admiration, and was regarded 

 with the sincerest friendship by all 

 pressmen in Holland. No matter how 



