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Alcove 122.— The wall cases contain an excellent series of 
images and other works of art in stone, bronze, wood, earthen- 
ware, etc., relating to the religious beliefs and observations of 
various oriental peoples. Buddhistic and Brahmanistic subjects 
predominate. Forming a part of the same series are an elabor- 
ately wrought brass incense burner from Benares, India, and the 
model of a Japanese Buddhistic altar occupying spaces next the 
doorway. 
Alcoves 123 and 124 are devoted to plaster casts of 
Assyrian and Chaldean antiquities, which include a winged lion, 
a winged bull, obelisk of Shalmenesser, the Moabite stone and 
two colossal human figures, one being fragmental. Casts of some 
fine examples of bas-reliefs appear in Alcove 124. 
PRINTING AND GRAPHIC ARTS, 
The purpose of these collections is to show the history, the 
evolution and the practical processes of the arts employed in print- 
ing and illustration. The subjects are treated from the modern 
point of view, that is to say, as technical processes of the useful 
and fine arts of to-day. Their origin as practical arts dates back to 
the fourteenth century, previous to which time they are purely of 
archeologic interest. The historical specimens, therefore, begin 
for the most part at the mediaeval period, when these arts com- 
menced to be factors in civilization. 
ALCOVE 118. 
TYPOGRAPHY. 
This alcove is devoted to collections illustrating the develop- 
ment of typography, printing presses, and accessories of printing. 
South Wall.~A series of pictures of the early printers, 
Gutenberg, Coster, Aldus, Caxton and others. To this exhibit has 
been added a frame containing examples illustrating some of 
the steps in the evolution of writing. 
West Wall.— In the southern section are placed illustrations 
of the printing arts. A frame of wood type, plain and ornamental. 
