boiler-room and side of corridor, about thirty feet wide, and fifty feet long, with efficient means of ventilation. The remainder of the space in the north-westerly half of the building is occupied by the central hall, and a staircase at the Pembroke street end of the corridor.

The whole of the south-easterly half of the basement is devoted to a Model School, with accommodations for about one hundred and fifty primary, and the same number of grammar school pupils. The entrance, cloak-rooms, waterclosets, and all other accommodations for this department, are separate and distinct from those of the other departments. The accommodations consist of a large class-room in each of the two corners of the building, each thirty feet by forty-five feet; connected with each class-room are two smaller rooms, each about sixteen feet by twenty-five feet. The remainder of the space is devoted to cloak-rooms. water-closets, hall and passages.

There are two entrances above the basement, one in the centre of each street front, and approached by flights of stone steps fourteen feet broad, which lead

up to a vestibule on the Newton street side, two feet four inches below the first floor, and on the Pembroke street side, about five feet below the floor.

There are four finished stories, including the basement, which is twelve feet high; the first and second stories are each fourteen feet high'; the large hall in the third story is eighteen feet six inches high, the balance of the story is fifteen feet high.

A corridor twelve feet wide extends across the building from the middle of the Newton street or south-westerly side, to the middle of the Pembroke-street or north-easterly side, at the ends of which are the entrances before described, and the staircases leading to the upper stories.

In the middle of the building is a central hall twenty-two feet wide by sev enty-seven feet long, crossing the corridor at right-angles; at each end of the hall are two rooms thirty feet long, which, with the hall, occupy the entire length of the building. The hall and corridor divide the building into four equal sections or quarters, which are subdivided as follows: At the left of the

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entrance on the Newton street, or south-westerly side, is a reception room sixteen feet by twenty-two feet, which is furnished in an appropriate manner with black walnut furniture, and the walls adorned with a portrait, and a bas-relief profile in marble of the late former master, Wm. H. Seavey, and other works of art. Beyond the reception-room is a passage leading from the corridor to the master's room, which is fourteen feet by twenty-seven feet, neatly furnished, and the walls lined with bookcases; this room is connected with the receptionroom, and with a room thirty feet by forty-five feet, for the advanced class occupying the westerly corner of the building. The inner portion of this quarter of the building is occupied by a passage leading from the hall to the advanced class-room and master's room; a staircase leading down to the basement story, a cloak-room for the advanced class, master's closets, and the ventiducts for this quarter of the building. At the end of the central hall, and occupying the middle portion of the north-westerly side, are two rooms, each sixteen feet by thirty feet, one of which was designed for a library; the other is a recitation-room. In the northerly corner is a class-room thirty feet by forty-five feet; at the south-easterly side of the class-room is a recitation-room sixteen feet by thirty-two feet, between the inner end of which and the central hall is a large, brick foul-air shaft and chimney, and a passage leading to the classroom, recitation-room, and cloak-room in this quarter of the building. At the right of the entrance on the Pembroke street side is a dressing-room fourteen feet by twenty-four feet, for female teachers, at the inner end of which, and occupying the remainder of the space in this quarter, is a cloak-room fourteen feet by twenty-five feet. At the left of the Pembroke street entrance is a recitation-room sixteen feet by twenty-eight feet, in the easterly corner a classroom forty-four feet by forty-five feet, adjoining which, on the southerly side, and at the end of the central hall, is another recitation-room seventeen feet by thirty feet. The remainder of this quarter is occupied by a cloak-room sixteen feet by twenty-one feet, occupying the space between the side of the central hall and inner end of recitation-room at the left of entrance, and a space about seven feet by fourteen feet, lying between the class-room and hall, and the cloak-room and recitation-room at the end of the hall. The ends of this space are occupied by the ventiducts for this quarter of the building; through the middle is a passage leading from the hall to the class-room. The southerly quarter of this floor has the same amount of accommodations, and is arranged precisely like the easterly quarter last described; and further, the same arrangement is carried through the three stories above the basement in the southeasterly half of the building, and the westerly quarter of the second story; that is to say, a class-room, two recitation-rooms, and a cloak-room, in each quarter, as above described.

The northerly quarter of the second story contains a class-room thirty feet by forty-five feet, with two recitation-rooms, a cloak-room, teachers' dressingroom, etc., as in the northerly quarter of the first story.

The westerly quarter of the third story is devoted to an assembly hall, about sixty-two feet wide by seventy-four feet six inches long. In the northerly quarterly of the third story is a room for drawing, thirty feet by forty-five feet; a cabinet for apparatus, sixteen feet by thirty-two feet; a teachers' dressingroom, cloak-room, etc., as in the same quarter in the stories below.

DECORATIONS OF THE UPPER HALL.

The plan of decorating one or more rooms in our public school-houses with a collection of casts, was laid before the Educational Committee of the American Social Science Association, by one of their number, about two years since. It was recommended by him, and approved by the committee. as a simple but efficient means of introducing an aesthetic element into the educational system of the United States. Casts, if selected to express the highest laws of form and the purest types of beauty, were thought to promise a favorable effect upon the mental and moral training of the young, especially if associated with their studies, that is, their daily efforts to improve themselves.

A special committee was formed to carry the plan into execution. They decided to place a carefully chosen number of casts in a hall of a new schoolbuilding in Boston. To this they were led, partly by the character of the building itself, and the facilities of which they were assured on the part of the school committee and the architect. but still more by the character of the school, being the Girls' High and Normal, and therefore comprising just that body of teachers and pupils with whom the experiment might be most favorably tried. The building is on West Newton street, and the hall to contain the casts is that intended for the general gatherings and exhibitions of the pupils. It has been finished at the expense of the city, with special reference to the casts. For a series of slabs from the frieze of the Parthenon, an architrave has been constructed, resting on Doric pilasters. Between these pilasters the walls have been painted of a color suitable as a background, and brackets or pedestals and battered form have been provided for the busts and statues.

The cost of the casts themselves, their packing, transportation, unpacking, and repairing, has been met by the subscriptions of a few members of the American Social Science Association, together with some persons not members. It has been a quiet movement, begun and ended under the competent direction of one gentleman (C. C. Perkins. Esq.,) in particular.

All is now happily accomplished. The casts are in their places, and the work it is hoped they will do has been begun. It remains only to present a list of them, with the sources from which they have been obtained, and their cost. for the information not merely of those who see them, but of those who, though not seeing them, may be inclined to procure others like them, for the decoration of schools in different parts of the country.

List of Casts.

1. FRIEZE OF THE PARTHENON. British Museum. This is the chief work of the collection, not only in size, but in character. From models by Phidias and his pupils. The original ran around the outside of the cella or body of the temple, about thirty feet above the base of the wall; and, being under the peristyle, was at some distance from the light. It is known, however, to have been colored and gilded, and therefore much more readily seen than might be imagined. The date is about 435 B. C.

The frieze, of which the larger part is reproduced, represents the great procession on the last day of the national festival called Panathenæa. Starting from the Cerameicus, the procession wound by a long route to the summit of the Acropolis. Nearly the whole population of Attica appears to have joined in it, some in chariots, some on horseback, some on foot; maidens bearing baskets filled with votive offerings; old men with olive branches, and in the midst a ship, from whose mast hung the peplus, a crocus-colored garment embroidered with mythological figures, the tribute of the Athenian maidens, or rather of the whole Athenian people, to the Goddess Athena. The ceremony of delivering the peplus to the Archon and priestess of the temple, with the Olympian deities seated on either side, is represented in that part of the frieze above the stage in the exhibition hall.

2. CARYATID. British Museum. One of six figures supporting the southern portico of the Erechtheum on the Acropolis at Athens, and brought thence to England by Lord Elgin in 1814. Its erect position and straight falling draperies recall the Ionic column it replaced.

3. DIANA. Louvre. Known as Diani of Gabii, because discovered in the ruins

Also called Atalanta

The action

of that city near Rome, in the year 1792. is fastening the mantle on the right shoulder. The statue probably dates from the fourth century B. C.

4. VENUS. Louvre. Called of Milo (the ancient Melos), where it was found in 1820. As the drapery at the back is only blocked out, the statue must have stood in a niche or against a wall. The action has been variou-ly interpreted. One writer thinks the apple of Paris was held in the left hand, while the drapery was sustained by the right; another thinks the left arm and hand supported a shield resting on the thigh, while the right hand was free for the inscription of fallen heroes. It is probably of the fourth century B. C.

5. POLYMNIA. Louvre. Found in Italy, and restored at Rome by a sculptor of that city, near the beginning of the present century. The Muse is supposed to be leaning on a rock of Helicon.

6. PUDICITIA. Vatican. Found in the Villa Mattei at Rome. The name was applied to it on account of the resemblance to a figure so named upon Roman medals. Also called the Tragic Muse. Also supposed to be a portrait of the Empress Livia. The right hand is a poor restoration.

7. AMAZON. Capitoline Museum. Found in the Villa Mattei. The action is passing the bow over the head, as the Amazon arms herself.

8. GENIUS OF THE VATICAN. Found near Rome about a century ago. Thought by some to be a Cupid, and a copy of a celebrated work by Praxiteles; by others, the Genius of Death, as frequently figured on Roman sarcophagi.

9. PSYCHE. Naples Museum. Found in the amphitheater at Capua. One critic th uks that it represented Psyche with her hands bound behind her back. It is probably a repetition of a Greek original.

10. DEMOSTHENES. Vatican. Supposed to represent the delivery of a Philipic. Niebuhr suggests that it is a copy of the statue erected by the Athenians in memory of their great orator.

11. BONE-PLAYER. Berlin Museum. This is thought to have been a portrait, executed near the beginning of the Christian era.

The following are busts:

12 APOLLO (Archaic). British Museum. Of an earlier period than any other work in the collection, probably the beginning of the fifth century B. C.

13. APOLLO (Pourtales). British Museum. Formerly in the gallery of Count Pourtales at Paris. It has been supposed to represent the god as the leader of the Mu-es.

14. ZEUS TROPHONIUS. men of the Archaic style.

Louvre. This is an imitation, if not an actual speciZeus was called Trophonius because worshiped at the oracle of that hero in Boeotia.

15. JUPITER Vatican. Found at Otricoli, about forty miles from Rome. The original can not have been sculptured before the first century of our era, as it is of marble from quarries not worked until that period. Of all known heads of the god, this is considered the most Phidian in tone.

16. JUNO. Vila Ludovisi, Rome. This head probably formed part of a colossal statue, the work of a Greek sculptor, in the fourth century B. C.

17. PALLAS. Louvre. Styled of Velletri, because the statue to which this belongs was found there in 1797.

18. BACCHUS (Young). Copitoline.

19. ESCULAPIUS. British Museum. Found in the Island of Milo in 1828, and supposed to have been executed about 300 B. C. The expression has been remarked upon as befitting the great Healer.

20. HOMER. Capitoline.

21. PERICLES. Vatican.

22. AUGUSTUS (Young).

Vatican.

The above were ordered as follows:

Nos. 1, 2, 12, 13, 19, from D. Brucciano, 40 Russell street, Covent Garden. London; Nos. 2. 5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 17, 22, from Bureau du Moulage, Palais du Louvre, Paris; Nos. 6, 8, 10, 15, 16, 20, 21, from L. Malpieri & G. Candiotti, Rome; Nos 4 and 18 were purchased of Paul A. Garey, 6 Province House Court, Boston.