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every part as he proceeds with the utmost patience and exactness. This done, 

 the separate pieces are carried to an immense court to be placed together, and 

 fixed upon a powerful frame-work of iron, which supports what may be called the 

 entire envelope of the statue. When the statue is removed for transportation, it 

 will be taken apart in more than 300 pieces. Its entire weight will be some 

 450,000 pounds, of which over 200,000 pounds will be copper, and the remainder 

 the iron frame-work. 



The workshops and j'ards of Messrs. Gaget, Gauthier & Co. are thrown 

 open to the subscribers to the statue, to witness the process of construction, on 

 Thursdays and Sundays of each week, and the pupils of the School of Fine Arts 

 are also admitted free. Those who are not subscribers can obtain admission by 

 purchasing an engraving of the monument, which is sold for the benefit of the 

 'work, in all sizes and states of perfection, from those costing ten cents only to 

 the elaborate representations of the various parts. The place is much frequented, 

 particularly on Sundays, which is the Parisian holiday for all sorts of diversions, 

 from sight-seeing to a revolution. The great yards are a veritable spectacle in 

 themselves, but the motley gathering of visitors is still more of one. The work- 

 men in their caps and blouses are a noticeable element, and occasionally an im- 

 promptu orator will address his chance audience with a glowing eulogium of America 

 in terms which the wandering citizen of this happy land does not always recognize 

 as truthful, and sometimes thanks Heaven that they are not. But the impression- 

 able hearers drink in the praises of the ideal republic with eagerness, and reward 

 the speaker, with cries of •' Vive la Liberie ! " "Vive la Republique Americaine ! " 

 The great work of M. Bartholdi has, moreover, been carefully inspected by 

 many of the sculptors and engineers of the Continent, and has given rise to much 

 discussion as to its probable stability, as well as its artistic merits. The verdict, 

 on the whole, has been one of approval, and there is no reasonable doubt that 

 when it is securely placed on the pedestal which Mr. Evart's committee is to 

 prepare, it will be a worthy symbol of the generous sentiment to the expression 

 and perpetuation of which it is consecrated. 



TREATMENT OF NAIURE BY AMERICAN AND ENGLISH POETS. 



One of the results of my study of American poetry has been to assure myself 

 that certain specific and well-defined causes have worked together to fix, as a 

 characteristic of that literature, a universal tenderness toward " the speechless 

 world," the creatures in fur and feathers that fulfill such great and beautiful func- 

 tions in our world's economy. This pitifulness, co extensive with nature, may be 

 almost accepted as a new departure in poetry, for I do not find that sympathy with 

 world-life is by any means au invariable rule with poets. 



The causes I refer to are not far to seek. In the first place, the popular 

 mind in America is not so familiarized with classical images and allusions as in 

 Europe, and the American poet, therefore, does not recur so readily as his Eu- 



