to maintain inviolate the relations of peace and amity towards other nations. The inducements of interest for observing that conduct will best be referred to your own reflection and experience. With me, a predominant motive has been to endeavor to gain time. to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress, without interruption, to that degree of strength and consistency which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes. Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am, nevertheless, too sensible of my defects, not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence, and that after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service, with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. Relying on its kindness in this, as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it, which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate, with pleasing expectations, that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government-the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers. CHOICE EXAMPLES OF CLASSIC SCULPTURE. HERA. Photo-engraving from the colossal head in the gallery of the Villa Ludovist at Rome. Hera was identified by the Romans with Juno, the goddess of conjugal love. The Ludovisi Juno is thought to be a copy in marble of the colossal image in gold and ivory made by Polyclitus, the contemporary of Phidias, for the Hereum. the temple in Argos, the seat of the goddess. But this head may possibly, as Lübke thinks, be the work of Alcamenes, 448-404 B.C. It is conceived in accordance with the Homeric ideal, the face is severe and majestic, with the large wireopened eyes atributed to the Queen of Heaven by Homer, who styles her, "Hera, the large-eyed and august." The gold and ivory statue of Hera at Argos made by Polyclitus was considered to be on a par with the statue of Zeus at Olympia, the work of Phidias, and was an embodiment of divine power and beauty, which seemed to reveal the very person of the goddess as queen and matron to her worshippers. She was represented on a throne, bearing in one hand a pomegranate. symbol of conjugal attachment, in the other a sceptre surmounted by a cuckoo, the bird in whose shape Zeus was fabled to have first appeared to his consort. statue was set up in the Hereum, 422 B.C. The |