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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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Copyright by A. V. Hyatt. 



Copyright by A. V. Hyatt. 



"Stalking Jacguars" and "Winter Group," by Anna V. Hyatt 



or trophy-room. Then, too, "Diogenes," by George E. they bring us in intimate touch with the best expressions of 



Bissell, another strong and virile example, illustrative of art, and add a distinctive note to the character of any room 



the earlier trend of American sculpture, is especially ac- in which they'are placed. 



ceptable as an effective newel post ornament, either at the Perhaps there has never been a general understanding 



foot of a stair case or on a landing, as it is possible to among those who have found pleasure in bronze of the 



introduce electric lights into the lantern. This figure meas- materials which enter into its composition. It adds greatly 



ures thirty-nine inches, and 

 has a decided decorative and 

 artistic value. 



Other bronzes for useful 

 as well as decorative pur- 

 poses are the many beautiful 

 designs in candlesticks, 

 which are made in pairs and 

 singly, also accessories for 

 the desk and for the smok- 

 er's table produced with 

 every consideration for util- 

 ity as well as desirablity for 

 decorative purposes. 



This is also true of the 

 flower bowls and table foun- 

 tains shown in numerous 

 sizes and shapes as well as 



Copyright by Her, 



Andirons "Cupid and Psyche," by Henry Linder 



to the interest of objects to 

 know something of their 

 structure and therefore it 

 will not be out of place to 

 mention here that bronze is 

 an alloy of copper and tin, 

 varying slightly, in propor- 

 tions, with the occasional ad- 

 dition of silver, zinc, lead 

 and other metals which, 

 while foreign to the true al- 

 loy, influence ductility and 

 malleability. Nine portions 

 of copper and one of tin is 

 the proportion of metal to 

 metal in the normal compo- 

 sition. In this connection it 

 is interesting to note that 



in those of more ambitious size which have found their "gun metal" is of a similar composition, 



place in the garden, to which they lend an old world charm. It is unnecessary here to speculate upon the mythical 



Many of our American sculptors, because of this grow- story of the discovery of bronze-making by the Idaean 



ing interest in sculpture, are devoting themselves exclus- Dactyls, its ancient use by the Telchines of Rhodes, or the 



ively to the modeling and production of the small house legend of the founding of Cadmian Thebes, made possible 



bronze, of which there is now so great a variety and which by the excellence of the weapons of bronze which were 



form so important a feature used by Cadmus in the time 



of our home decoration where 



of the seventeenth dynasty. 



Copyright by A. St. L. Eberle. „ . , ( Copyright by Charles Carey Rumsey. _ Copyright by G. E. Bissell. 



Indian Fisherman, by A. St. L. "The Polo Player" mounted on his "Quarter Horse," by Charles Carey Diogenes and his Lantern by 

 Eberle Rumsey George E. Bissell 



