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REVIEW OE REVIEWS. 



October I, 1913. 



arched and stained. Behind the bench 

 is to be a great oil painting. Above, to 

 your left, are the arched galleries for 

 the use of the public. One sculptured 

 panel in this gallery shows a cock 

 crowing to greet the rising sun, to illus- 

 trate Lex ; another shows the dawn of 

 Pax, shaming the dark night-bird. The 

 walls below are panelled with oak. 

 Oak, too, is the beautifully embossed 

 ceiling. 

 THE LESSER HALL AND OTHER ROOMS. 

 The rooms of the judges, beautifully 

 furnished and hung with tapestry of 

 the old Dutch sort, are without pictorial 

 representations. The rooms for counsel 

 and other parlours are all arranged with 

 the most pleasing variety and substan- 

 tial elegance. 



Ascending the grand staircase you 

 find over the main entrance the large 

 room assigned to the Administrative 

 Council, the permanent Cabinet of the 

 world, which consists of all foreign 

 Ministers credentialled to The Hague, 

 with the Dutch Foreign Minister as 

 President, or, shall one say, the World's 

 Premier. It is panelled with rosewood 

 and satmwood ; it is hung with Jap- 

 anese cartoons in embroidered silk. 

 Anterooms divide this World's Cabinet 

 Chamber on the one side from the room 

 of the President, and on the other from 

 the rooms of the Secretary-General and 

 his assistant. Beyond the latter is a 

 reception room, adorned with three great 

 oil paintings by Bol. Corridors left 

 and right open on rooms for secre- 

 taries and other officials, rooms for 

 study, and muniment rooms, where the 

 signed documents — conventions, acts, 

 judgments, decrees, etc. — of the World's 

 Parliament and of the World's High 

 Court of Justice are securely guarded 

 in safes and lockers of steel. 



THE LIBRARY. 

 The Library, which occupies the two 

 storeys to the west of the quadrangle, 

 shows, as befits the studious purpose 

 for which it is designed, less colour and 

 decoration than the juridic and concihar 

 rooms. Downstairs are reading room, 

 lecture room, a central lending office, 

 and a number of rooms for quiet study. 

 Upstairs the books are stored in steel 



shelves. As accords with the Carnegie 

 tradition, the library is public and free. 



THE OFFERINGS OF THE NATIONS. 



The materials used for the Palace 

 have a cosmopolitan origin. The chief 

 component in the structure is brick and 

 is Dutch. It comes from the famous 

 brickfields near Leyden. Next comes 

 the beautiful hard white sandstone, 

 which is the product of French quar- 

 ries. The wood most used for flooring 

 and panelling is Austrian oak. 



But one of the most picturesque and 

 significant things about this metropoli- 

 tan Temple is the number of contribu- 

 tions in all kinds which it has received 

 as free gifts from the nations The 

 granite which forms the base of all the 

 walls is presented by the Governments 

 of Norway and Sweden, and the future 

 of mankind will be well and truly 

 based if it be founded on a love of 

 peace as pure and steadfast as animates 

 these Scandinavian peoples. The foun- 

 tain which adorns the centre of the 

 garden, enclosed by the quadrangle, is 

 a present from DENMARK. The marble 

 used so freely in the corridor is a free- 

 will offering of the ITALIAN Govern- 

 ment. The grand marble staircase is a 

 gift from the ClTY OF THE HAGUE. 

 ARGENTINA presents the group of statu- 

 ary at the foot of the stairway. HOL- 

 LAND has fitly enough supplied the 

 steps by which humanity rises upward. 

 The seven staircase windows, previously 

 described, as well as the grounds in 

 which and on which the Palace is built, 

 are presented by the DUTCH Govern- 

 ment Great Britain has sent the 

 stained glass which lights the great 

 Court of Law, and every patriot will 

 pray that she may always shed light on 

 the process of pacific justice. FRANCE 

 true to her artistic mission, sends a 

 great painting to the chief Court and 

 a Gobelin to the smaller Court. The 

 anteroom to the latter is to be enriched 

 with a vase of jasper, the present of the 

 Russian Tsar. Hungary sends six 

 precious vases, AUSTRIA six candelabra. 

 A group of statuary in marble and 

 bronze, to be placed on the first landing 

 of the great staircase, is the gift of the 

 United States. Brazil has made her 



